The Odyssey of Homer, with the Hymns, Epigrams, and Battle of the Frogs and Mice/Hymns/Hymn 8
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VIII. TO VENUS.
I will sing Cyprus-sprung Cytherea, who both gives pleasant gifts[1] to mortals, and with pleasant visage is ever smiling, and bears a lovely flower [of beauty]. Hail! goddess, ruling over well-built Salamis and all Cyprus,[2] and grant [me] pleasant song, but I will be mindful of thee, and of another song.
- ↑ Cf. Pindar, Ol. i. 120, φίλια δώρα κυπρίας. Hesiod, Scut. Herc. τερπόμενος δῶροισι πολυχρύσου Ἀφροδίτης. See int. pp. on Virg. Æn. iv. 33.
- ↑ In the cod. Mosc. there are evidently two versions of this hymn mixed up together, the following lines being added in Hermann's ed.:
χαῖρε μάκαιρα, κυθήρης ἐϋκτιμένης μεδέουσα,
Ἐιναλίης τε κύπρου· δὸς δ' ἰμερόεσσαν ἀοιδήν.