Muses' Whisper

Verse

Hymn to Zeus

Hymn 1, Line 38 by E. H. Blakeney (English)

Oh, scatter it far from their souls, and grant them to achieve true knowledge, on whose might Thou dost rely to govern all the world in righteousness;

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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.