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title: "The Homeric Hymns · Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι"
author: "Homer"
translator: "Hugh G. Evelyn-White"
languages: [grc, en]
shelf: "Classical Greek"
section: 18 of 35
url: https://scriptura.si/works/homeric-hymns/18/
cite: "Homer, tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White, The Homeric Hymns · Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, section 18. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/homeric-hymns/18/"
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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.

## 18. Hymn 16 · To Asclepius

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/homeric-hymns/18/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/homeric-hymns/18/#p-N

[¶0] I begin to sing of Asclepius, son of Apollo and healer of sicknesses. In the Dotian plain fair Coronis, daughter of King Phlegyas, bare him, a great joy to men, a soother of cruel pangs.

> Greek: ἰητῆρα νόσων Ἀσκληπιὸν ἄρχομʼ ἀείδειν,
υἱὸν Ἀπόλλωνος, τὸν ἐγείνατο δῖα Κορωνὶς
Δωτίῳ ἐν πεδίῳ, κούρη Φλεγύου βασιλῆος,
χάρμα μέγʼ ἀνθρώποισι, κακῶν θελκτῆρʼ ὀδυνάων.

[¶1] And so hail to you, lord: in my song I make my prayer to thee!

> Greek: καὶ σὺ μὲν οὕτω χαῖρε, ἄναξ· λίτομαι δέ σʼ ἀοιδῇ.