SCRIPTURA

Classical Greek

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Sophocles

Translated by Anne Mahoney

A satyr play recovered in part from a papyrus: the satyrs track Apollo’s stolen cattle to a cave on Mount Cyllene and hear, for the first time, the sound of the lyre the baby Hermes has made.

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  • Greek: ed. Arthur S. Hunt, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0011.tlg008, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Anne Mahoney, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0011.tlg008.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.

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