The Homeric Hymns · c. 1624
Hymn XI — To Athena
Translated by George Chapman (c. 1624)
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Pallas Minerva only I begin
To give my song; that makes war’s terrible din,
Is patroness of cities, and with Mars
Marshall’d in all the care and cure of wars,
And in everted cities, fights, and cries.
But never doth herself set down or rise
Before a city, but at both times She
All injur’d people sets on foot and free.
Give, with thy war’s force, fortune then to me,
And, with thy wisdom’s force, felicity.
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Homer. The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XI — To Athena. Translated by George Chapman. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/homeric-hymns-chapman/8/.
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Homer. The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XI — To Athena. Translated by George Chapman. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/homeric-hymns-chapman/8/.