Homeric Hymns

But an old man tilling his flowering vineyard saw him as he was hurrying down the plain through grassy Onchestus. So the Son of Maia began and said to him: "Old man, digging about your vines with bowed shoulders, surely you shall have much wine when all these bear fruit, if you obey me and strictly remember not to have seen what you have seen, and not to have heard what you have heard, and to keep silent when nothing of your own is harmed."

Homeric HymnsHymn 4, Line 87Hugh G. Evelyn-WhiteEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Hymn 4

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