technical language

• epithalmium - wedding song
• kletic hymn - invocation to Aphrodite to help narrator in their pursuit of someone
• thiasos - cult, Sappho thought to be in a cult of Aph
• koma - deep sleep, referenced in Loeb 1 when Sappho says that "sleep flows down from the trembling leaves"
• apostrophe - speaking/appealing to something that isn't there
• priamel - a series of listed alternatives that serve as foils to the true subject of the poem, which is revealed in a climax