The Homeric Hymns · 1914
Hymn XXIV — To Hestia
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
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(ll. 1-5) Hestia, 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 with Zeus the all-wise—draw near, and withal bestow grace upon my song.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Homer. The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XXIV — To Hestia. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/homeric-hymns/23/.
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Homer. The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XXIV — To Hestia. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/homeric-hymns/23/.