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Headword:
*)emoi\
melh/sei
tau=ta
kai\
leukai=s
ko/rais
Adler number: epsilon,1060
Translated headword: I will attend to these matters and (so will) white maidens
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They say that when certain barbarians attacked
Delphi, the god [Apollo] was asked [what needed to be done] and said: 'I will attend to these matters and with white maidens'. Subsequently he appeared with Athena and Artemis, who also have shrines at
Delphi, and they met the enemy in battle.
*)emoi\ melh/sei tau=ta kai\ leukai=s ko/rais: le/gousin, o(/ti barba/rwn tinw=n strateuome/nwn e)pi\ *delfou/s, e)rwtw/menos o( qeo\s e)/fhsen: e)moi\ melh/sei tau=ta kai\ leukai=s ko/rais. u(/steron de\ e)fa/nh meta\ *)aqhna=s kai\ *)arte/midos, w(=n kai\ i(era/ ei)sin e)n *delfoi=s, a)pantw=n tou\s polemi/ous.
Notes:
An iambic trimeter, also in
Appendix Proverbiorum 2.55.
Generated by the Gauls' attack on
Delphi in 278 BCE. See generally J. Fontenrose,
The Delphic Oracle (Berkeley 1978) 344, Q231.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 April 2003@08:24:24.
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