The Odyssey of Homer, with the Hymns, Epigrams, and Battle of the Frogs and Mice/Hymns/Hymn 12

by Homer

XII. TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS.

Sing to me, sweet^[1] Muse, daughter of mighty Jove, the mother both of all gods and all men, to whom the noise of cymbals and drums,^[2] and with it the drone of pipes is pleasant, and the howling of wolves and terrible lions, and the echoing mountains, and woody recesses. And do thou thus hail, and with thee all the goddesses, in song.

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1. Cf. Alcman, fragm. i. 1, ed. Welcker.
2. On this miscellaneous musical taste, cf. Lucret. ii. 618, sqq., Catull. lxi. 28, sqq., and Lilius Gyraldus de Diis, Synt. iv. p. 140, ed. Amst.