[25] The line has been ejected by most editors as a gloss on 24. But the repetition in 24, 25 is characteristic of the writer's narrative style; so 12, 13. With 25 cf. the similar expression in the hymn of the Delphian Boeo ( Paus.x. 5. 7) “πρῶτος δ᾽ ἀρχαίων ὕμνων τεκτάνατ᾽ ἀοιδάν” (of Olen).
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The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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