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 HERMES

Commentary on line 2

*kull/hn*hs: for the numerous references to the Cyllenian cult of Hermes see Immerwahr die Kulte u. Myth. Ark. i. p. 73 f., Roscher Lex. i. 2342 f., Preller-Robert i. p. 389.

6=xviii. 6 ἄντρῳ ναιετάουσα παλισκίῳ, but the parallel is without effect on the reading of the older hymn. It is unnecessary to read ἄντρου, with Baumeister, or to alter ναίουσα into a verb of motion, with the older critics. ναίειν here governs the accusative, as often in Homer, and ἔσω is to be taken absolutely, within. For ἔσω=ἔνδον, with a verb of rest, cf. Il. 13.553 , η 13, ς 96, φ 229. Zenodotus (on Od. 7.13) denied the use, and Ebeling follows; but the exx. in Homer can hardly be explained away.