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Hymn to Zeus

Hymn 1, Line 37 by E. H. Blakeney (English)

O Thou most bounteous God that sittest throned in clouds, the Lord of lightning, save mankind from grievous ignorance!

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Full E. H. Blakeney translation from The Hymn of Cleanthes (London, 1921), resegmented into 39 aligned lines for compare reading while preserving the complete wording of the public-domain English witness.