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To Hestia

[1] Hestia, you who tend the holy house of the lord Apollo, the Far-shooter at goodly Pytho, with soft oil dripping ever from your locks, come now into this house, come, having one mind [5] with Zeus the all-wise —draw near, and withal bestow grace upon my song.

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    • W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), 7.107
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