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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 70 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
T. Maccius Plautus, Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pindar, Pythian 4 (ed. Steven J. Willett) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Politics | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Today you must stand beside a man dear to me,
by the king of horsefamed Cyrene,
and joining with Archesilaus in his victory revels,
Muse, swell the breeze of songs
owed to Leto's Twins and to d with her spontaneous shout,
she who thrice crying "Hail"
revealed you the predestined
king of Cyrene,
when you were asking what release might come
from the gods for a stammering voice.
Afte nted
you the plain of Libya to enrich
by favor of the gods
and the holy city of golden-throned
Cyrene to govern,
you who contrived a craft of right counsel.
Know now the wisdom of Oedipus:
i or you is woven out this web of favors.
Take heart to lavish full devotion
on divinely blessed Cyrene.
Among the sayings of Homer this one
lay to mind and heed:
a noble messenger, he said,
bestows the greatest honor to each office;
even the Muse grows strong by true report.
Cyrene and the most illustrious house of Battus
have come to know the upright mind
of Damophilus. For that man—