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Homeric Hymns

Hymn 1, Line 17 by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (English)

Be favourable, O Insewn, Inspirer of frenzied women! we singers sing of you as we begin and as we end a strain, and none forgetting you may call holy song to mind. And so, farewell, Dionysus, Insewn, with your mother Semele whom men call Thyone.

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