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       Homeric Hymn to Dionysos
   DIR By: Ashlin the gray
       Date: February 12, 2021, 5:48 am
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       THE HOMERIC HYMNS 1, TRANSLATED BY H. G. EVELYN-WHITE
       I. TO DIONYSUS 1
       [1] ((lacuna)) . . . For some say, at Dracanum; and some, on
       windy Icarus; and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn2; and
       others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele
       bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover. And others yet, lord, say
       you were born in Thebes; but all these lie. The Father of men
       and gods gave you birth remote from men and secretly from
       white-armed Hera. There is a certain Nysa, a mountain most high
       and richly grown with woods, far off in Phoenice, near the
       streams of Aegyptus. ((lacuna)) . . .
       [10] [Zeus speaking:] " . . . and men will lay up for her3 many
       offerings in her shrines. And as these things are three,4 so
       shall mortals ever sacrifice perfect hecatombs to you at your
       feasts each three years."
       The Son of Cronos spoke and nodded with his dark brows. And the
       divine locks of the king flowed forward from his immortal head,
       and he made great Olympus reel. So spake wise Zeus and ordained
       it with a nod.
       [17] Be favourable, O Insewn, Inspirer of frenzied women! we
       singers sing of you as we begin and as we end a strain, and none
       forgetting you may call holy song to mind. And so, farewell,
       Dionysus, Insewn, with your mother Semele whom men call Thyone.
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