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Hymn to Zeus

Hymn 1, Line 39 by E. H. Blakeney (English)

that so, being honoured, we may Thee requite with honour, chanting without pause Thy deeds, as all men should; since greater guerdon ne'er befalls or man or god than evermore duly to praise the Universal Law.

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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.