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her splendid broods ; for thee flow all the streams 

 from Ocean ; for thee with cheerful smile springs 

 up the glorious Dawn. 



Fain then am I to sing the glorious devices of the 

 chase. So biddeth me CaUiope, so Artemis herself. 

 I hearkened, as is meet, I hearkened to the heavenly 

 voice, and I answered the goddess who first to me 

 spake thus. 



ARTEMIS. Arise, let us tread a rugged path, which 

 never yet hath any mortal trodden with his song." 



OPPiAX. Be gracious, holy Lady, and whatsoever 

 things thou thinkest in thy mind, these will we de- 

 clare with our mortal voice. 



ART. I would not now have thee sing Mountain- 

 Bacchus ** of the triennial feast, '^ nor his choir by the 

 deep waters of Aonian Asopus.** 



opp. We will leave, as thou biddest, the nightly 

 rites of Sabazius * ; often ^ have I danced around 

 Dionysus, son of Thy one.' 



ART. Tell not of the race of heroes, tell not of 

 the seafaring Argo ; sing not the battles of men, 

 sing not to me the Destroyer of Men.* 



OPP. I will not tell of wars, nor of Ares' works 

 most evil ; I have remarked the Parthians' woes 

 and Ctesiphon.' 



//. xxi. 131 ifi Sij drjOa xoXets iepttkre rovpoi-j, where Didymus 

 TO " Sv^cL ' lis ovx OnrjpiKurs ictifievop airiwvrai, i.e. cijBd. was 

 taken to be oot =i-ri vo\vv xp<>'o^ or sk xoXXoO xp^^ov, as 

 usually in Horn, but =ToXXd, awexi^t. Cf. E.M. s.r. 



' i.e. Semele, d. of Cadmus and m. of Dionvsus. Cf. 

 Find. P. iii. 99. » Ares (Horn." 7/. v. 31). 



« Ctesiphon (Polyb. v. 4o. 4; Strabo 743; Tac. A. vi. 42; 

 Plin. X.H. vi. 122; Aram. Man-, xxiii. 6. 23; T. Simoc. iv. 

 3. 3) on left hank of Tigris, seat of the Parthian kings in 

 second century, taken by the Emperor Septimius Sevenis 

 A.D. 198: Herodian iii. 9.' 



