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Flee to the ends of the earth from the circle embattled of Athens!
The head will not remain in its place, nor in the body,
Nor the feet beneath, nor the hands, nor the parts between;
But all is ruined, for fire and the headlong god of war speeding in a Syrian chariot will bring you low.
” [3] “Many a fortress too, not yours alone, will he shatter;
Many a shrine of the gods will he give to the flame for devouring;
Sweating for fear they stand, and quaking for dread of the enemy,
Running with gore are their roofs, foreseeing the stress of their sorrow;
Therefore I bid you depart from the sanctuary.
Have courage to lighten your evil.1
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1 Lit. spread courage over your evils. But most commentators translate “steep your souls in woe.”
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(2):
- Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns, HYMN TO DEMETER
- W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), 20.351
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(3):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.pos=2.2
- Harper's, Hephaestĭa
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), ORA´CULUM
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- LSJ, Συ^ριηγενής
- LSJ, ἄκρος
- LSJ, ἄζηλος
- LSJ, διώκω
- LSJ, ἐπικίδνημι
- LSJ, κάθημαι
- LSJ, καταχέω
- LSJ, κατερείπ-ω
- LSJ, μέλεος
- LSJ, νέα^τος
- LSJ, ὄροφ-ος
- LSJ, πάλλω
- LSJ, προεῖδον
- LSJ, πύργ-ωμα
- LSJ, ῥέω
- LSJ, τροχο-ειδής