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title: "The Homeric Hymns · Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι"
author: "Homer"
translator: "Hugh G. Evelyn-White"
languages: [grc, en]
shelf: "Classical Greek"
section: 13 of 35
url: https://scriptura.si/works/homeric-hymns/13/
cite: "Homer, tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White, The Homeric Hymns · Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, section 13. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/homeric-hymns/13/"
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# The Homeric Hymns · Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι

*Homer, tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White*

Thirty-three hymns to the gods in Homer’s metre: Demeter searching for Persephone, the birth of Apollo on Delos, the infant Hermes stealing Apollo’s cattle and inventing the lyre, Aphrodite and Anchises, and short preludes to many more.

> Greek: ed. Hugh G. Evelyn-White, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0013.tlg001–tlg033, CC BY-SA 4.0).

> English: Hugh G. Evelyn-White, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0013.tlg001–tlg033, perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the references the two texts share (line numbers), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

## 13. Hymn 11 · To Athena

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/homeric-hymns/13/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/homeric-hymns/13/#p-N

[¶0] Of Pallas Athena, guardian of the city, I begin to sing. Dread is she, and with Ares she loves deeds of war, the sack of cities and the shouting and the battle. It is she who saves the people as they go out to war and come back.

> Greek: Παλλάδʼ Ἀθηναίην ἐρυσίπτολιν ἄρχομʼ ἀείδειν,
δεινήν, ᾗ σὺν Ἄρηι μέλει πολεμήια ἔργα
περθόμεναί τε πόληες ἀϋτή τε πτόλεμοί τε,
καί τʼ ἐρρύσατο λαὸν ἰόντα τε νισσόμενόν τε.

[¶1] Hail, goddess, and give us good fortune with happiness!

> Greek: χαῖρε, θεά, δὸς δʼ ἄμμι τύχην εὐδαιμονίην τε.