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HYMNS

TO ATHENA

(in alcaic metre)

O Queen Athena, mighty in war’s alarms,

O keeping guard by river Coralio,

And on the steeps of Coronea,

Over the house of thy sacred worship!

O Queen perchance thou movest above the camp,

The camp of our divided armies.

TO HERMES

(in sapphic metre)

Cyllenean Ruler and Lord, a paean

Raise I now. ßeloved of the son of Cronos,

Maia brought thee forth on the sacred moun-tain’s

Loftiest summit.

EROS

He sprang, of gods the mightiest god,

From Zephyr, golden-tressed,

And gentle Iris, neatly-shod,

When Love these lovers blessed.