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Judging from the Parian Marble, she was exiled from Lesbos to Sicily sometime between 604 and 594 BC.

If Fragment 98 of her poetry is accepted as biographical evidence and as a reference to her daughter ( see below ), it may indicate that she had already had a daughter by the time she was exiled.

If Fragment 58 is accepted as autobiographical, it indicates that she lived into old age.

If her connection to Rhodopis ( see below ) is accepted as historical, it indicates that she lived into the mid-6th century BC.