Ancient Greek · ~2 min
Poem 13
Callimachus, Iambi 13.1
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τὰς Ἀφροδίτας (ἡ θεὸς γὰρ οὐ μία) πάσας ὑπερβέβληκε τῷ καλῶς φρονεῖν ἡ Καστνιῆτις· ἥδε γὰρ χαίρει μόνη θυσίαις ὑείαις. Strabo ix. 438 Καλλίμαχος μὲν οὖν φησιν ἐν τοῖς Ἰάμβοις τὰς Ἀφροδίτας (ἡ θεὸς γὰρ οὐ μία) τὴν Καστνιῆτιν ὑπερβάλλεσθαι πάσας τῷ φρονεῖν ὅτι μόνη παραδέχεται τὴν τῶν ὑῶν θυσίαν. We give the above restoration as one more among many: to recover the words of Callimachus with certainty is of course impossible.