Homer’s Epigrams

Homer

Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White

17 chapters · about 5 min

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1

Have reverence for him who needs a home and stranger’s dole, all ye who dwell in the high city of Cyme, the lovely maiden, hard by the foothills of lofty Sardene, ye who drink the heavenly water of the divine stream, eddying Hermus, whom deathless Zeus begot.

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The words
Hugh G. Evelyn-White's English translation, copied word for word.
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