[5] δικαιοτάτων ἀΓὲ φωτῶν: there may be a verbal reminiscence of Il. 13.6 “ δικαιοτάτων ἀνθρώπων”, but there cannot be any mythological allusion to the Scythians, as Baumeister thinks; Ares is simply the “Lord of the Just. ”
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HYMN TO DIONYSUS
HYMN TO DEMETER
HYMN TO APOLLO
HYMN TO HERMES
HYMN TO APHRODITE
HYMN TO APHRODITE
HYMN TO DIONYSUS
HYMN TO ARES
HYMN TO ARTEMIS
HYMN TO APHRODITE
HYMN TO ATHENA
HYMN TO HERA
HYMN TO DEMETER
HYMN TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS
HYMN TO HERACLES THE LION-HEARTED
HYMN TO ASCLEPIUS
HYMN TO THE DIOSCURI
HYMN TO HERMES
HYMN TO PAN
HYMN TO HEPHAESTUS
HYMN TO APOLLO
HYMN TO POSEIDON
HYMN TO ZEUS
HYMN TO HESTIA
HYMN TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO
HYMN TO DIONYSUS
HYMN TO ARTEMIS
HYMN TO ATHENA
HYMN TO HESTIA
HYMN TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL
HYMN TO HELIOS
HYMN TO SELENE
HYMN TO THE DIOSCURI
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The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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