ayXaK v s1 jdos vrt SiSuxoi
in detail (vv. 3-9) ; its destruction by a thunderbolt icas the subject of vv. 10-12.
(b) Ascribed tc Pindar on grounds of style and vocabulary (see ed. pr. p. ST). The subject is the birth of the twin children of Zeus and Leto.
c One temple in his violence he0 brought near to the Northern Winds. But for the other,—tell, Muses, what, grace was this, fashioned by the handicraft of Hephaestus and Athene ? Walls of bronze, bronze pillars supported it ; in gold above the gable sai g six enchantresses. But. . . Zeus rent the earth asunder with a thunderbolt, and hid it utterly from sight. . . .
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(b (Yv. 5 sqq.) . . . and also from Nuxos (brought) sacrifices of fat sheep for all the Graces on the crags of Cynthus, where they say the dark-clouded wiclder of the bright thunderbolt, Zeus, sitting on the peaks above, watched the time when Coeus's gentle daughter b was released from the travail that was her joy. Bright they shone as the sun, when to the glorious daylight they came, twin children. and a Apoilo. * Leto.
literary papyri naibes' noAi * pod ojv leoav .-¡to (jTop^drujv
'EJAeiOvic re koX Aajj^] eoxs"
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