Mythology & Folklore
To Cuma
Translated by George Chapman (c. 1624) · From Homeric Epigrams (Chapman)
Lend hospitable rites and house-respect,
You that the virgin with the fair eyes deckt
Make fautress of your stately-seated town,
At foot of Sardes, with the high-hair’d crown,
Inhabiting rich Cuma; where ye taste
Of Hermus’ heavenly fluent, all embrac’d
By curl’d-head whirl pits; and whose waters move
From the divine seed of immortal Jove.
Codex Note
Chapman’s verse version of one of the Homeric epigrams (c. 1624).
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MLA
Homer. “To Cuma.” Translated by George Chapman. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/homer/20/.
Chicago
Homer. “To Cuma.” Translated by George Chapman. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/homer/20/.
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