Commentary on the Homeric HymnsMachine readable text

Commentary on the Homeric Hymns
By Thomas W. Allen
London Macmillan 1904

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THE HOMERIC HYMNS IN ANTIQUITY
   FIFTH CENTURY B.C.
   THIRD CENTURY B.C.
   FIRST CENTURY B.C.⁶
   SECOND CENTURY A.D.

THE NATURE OF THE HOMERIC HYMNS

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO DEMETER

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

HYMN TO APHRODITE

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 HEPHAESTUS

HYMN TO POSEIDON

HYMN TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

HYMN TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL

HYMN TO THE DIOSCURI

THE HOMERIC HYMNS IN ANTIQUITY
   FIFTH CENTURY B.C.
   THIRD CENTURY B.C.
   FIRST CENTURY B.C.⁶
   SECOND CENTURY A.D.

THE NATURE OF THE HOMERIC HYMNS

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO DEMETER

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

HYMN TO APHRODITE

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 HEPHAESTUS

HYMN TO POSEIDON

HYMN TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

HYMN TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL

HYMN TO THE DIOSCURI

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HYMN TO HESTIA

Commentary on line 4

tim/hn: the repetition of the word in 3, 4 is in itself insufficient to warrant change at either place; but there is a further objection to the spondee at the pause in 4, where a bucolic diaeresis would be regular. The second τιμήν may therefore have ousted an adjective, as Baumeister and Gemoll suppose.

There is no difficulty in sou=, though followed in the same sentence by Ἑστίῃ; the proper name gives dignity, and also suggests the actual word used in the libation (6).