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[3] They say too that Eleuther won a Pythian victory for his loud and sweet voice, for the song that he sang was not of his own composition. The story is that Hesiod too was debarred from competing because he had not learned to accompany his own singing on the harp. Homer too came to Delphi to inquire about his needs, but even though he had learned to play the harp, he would have found the skill useless owing to the loss of his eye-sight.

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    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra, 48
    • Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns, HYMN TO DIONYSUS
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