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[10] οἱ: this, as Hermann saw, must refer to Semele.

ἀΓάλματα: votive offerings generally, for “ἀναθήματα”, as in early inscriptions ( Herod.v. 60, 61, Paus.x. 7. 3, of tripods); the statue of Chares was “ἄγαλμα τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος”; see Roberts Epigr. i. 7 and 138. The word might include the early temple images or “ξόανα”; but, unless the hymn belongs to an age at least as late as the sixth century B.C., “ἀγάλματα” cannot refer to votive statues, the most archaic of which are not older than the beginning of the century.


The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.

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