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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Phocis and Ozolian Locri, chapter 5 (search)
view, however, is that Phemonoe was the first prophetess of the god, and first sang in hexameter verse. Boeo, a native woman who composed a hymn for the Delphians, said that the oracle was established for the god by comers from the Hyperboreans, Olen and others, and that he was the first to prophesy and the first to chant the hexameter oracles. The verses of Boeo are:—Here in truth a mindful oracle was builtBy the sons of the Hyperboreans, Pagasus and divine Agyieus.Boeo, work unknownAfter enumerating others also of the Hyperboreans, at the end of the hymn she names Olen:—And Olen, who became the first prophet of Phoebus,And first fashioned a song of ancient verses.Boeo, work unknownTradition, however, reports no other man as prophet, but makes mention of prophetesses only. They say that the most ancient temple of Apollo was made of laurel, the branches of which were brought from the laurel in Tempe. This temple must have had the form of a hut. The Delphians say that the second tem