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Hymn 24 To Hestia

Anonymous

translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)

print edition: Internet Archive

1Hestia, you who tend the holy house of the lord Apollo, the Far-shooter at goodly Pytho, with soft oil dripping ever from your locks, come now into this house, come, having one mind

5with Zeus the all-wise —draw near, and withal bestow grace upon my song.