[157] κοῦραι Δηλιάδες: for this chorus see Homolle in B. C. H. xiv. p. 501 f.; it was called “χορὸς τῶν γυναικῶν”, e.g. “εἰς τογ χορον τογ γυναικων τογ γενομενον τοις απολλ[ωνιοις”]. The Delian women took part, as a chorus, in various festivals: Apollonia, Letaea, Artemisia, Britomartia, Aphrodisia, and on the occasion of “θεωρίαι” from Cos, Rhodes, Siphnos, and Carystos. For the lastmentioned festival cf. also Dion. Perieget. 527 “ῥύσια δ᾽ Ἀπόλλωνι χοροὺς ἀνάγουσιν ἅπασαι” (sc. “αἰ Κυκλάδες”) “ἱσταμένου γλυκεροῦ νέον ει<*>αρος”. The imitation of dialects (see on 162) was probably to please the “θεωροί” (so Lebègue p. 13 and 257, Homolle l.c.). The “Δηλιάδες”, a play of Cratinus, may have referred to such a chorus. Euripides H. F. 687 f. calls their song a “παιάν”; cf. also Hec.462 f., Wilamowitz-Möllendorff Herakl. i. p. 140. Compare the chorus of “Λυδῶν” “κόραι” at Ephesus: Nub. 599 f., Aelian V. H. xii. 9, Ion fr. 22, Diog. fr. 1, Kock F. C. A. i. p. 806.
θεράπΝαι: Homer uses only the masc. “θεράπων”.
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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