Type 4179
(formerly typ/2271)

Ὑμνῶ τὸν ὑψίζυγον ἐν πρώτοις Δία,
Φοῖβον δ' ἔπειτα καὶ τρίτην τὴν Ἄρτεμιν.
Δῆλον τετάρτην, εἶτα λουτρὰ Παλλάδος,
ἕκτην δὲ τὴν Δήμητραν τὴν παλαιτέραν.
μέλπω δὲ γραὸς τῆς φιλοξένου τρόπη.
καὶ τὴν τελευτέαν τὲ τὴν ἄγραν.
καὶ τῶν μεγίστων αἰτίων τὴν τετράδα.
σκώπτω δ’ ἐπ’ ἀραῖς ἴβον ἀπολλώνιον
καὶ τὴν ἀθηνᾶν ὕστατον μέλπω πάλιν
γρίφω βαθίστω καὶ δυσευρήτιος λόγοις.
Text source C. Nigra 1892, Inni di Callimaco su Diana e sui lavacri di Pallade, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica, 194-232: 209-210
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s)
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)
Tag(s) Introduction to the subject
Translation(s) Cano gubernatorem supremum in primis Iovem,
Phoebum deinde, tertiam Dianam,
Apollinem quartum, postea lavacra Palladis,
sextam vero Cererem antiquam.
Cano autem vetulae hospitalis mensam,
et mortem et ferae capturam;
et maximarum causarum quaternam seriem.
Irrideo vero imprecationibus Ibin Apollonium,
et postremo Minervam iterum cano,
enigmate profundo et non obviis verbis.
Language
Latin
Source(s)
C. Nigra 1892, Inni di Callimaco su Diana e sui lavacri di Pallade, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica, 194-232: 209
Comment Martini-Bassi (1906: 130): "tetrastichum".
Bibliography
Number of verses 10
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 826: "De Callimachi carminibus"
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