Greek Lyric
κλυτομήτης
οὐκ ἀπαξιῶν παρὰ σοῦ (sc. τοῦ Σοφοκλέους) ἀκοῦσαι . . . κλυτόμητις ci. Bergk (cf. P.M.G. 934)
(b) I.G. ii2 4510 + James H. Oliver, Hesperia 5 (1936) 109ss.
ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ [ΠΑΙ]ΑΝ(i)
(ὦ) Φλεγύα] κούρα περιώνυμε, μᾶτερ ἀλεξιπό[ν]ο[ιο] θεοῦ ὃν ἔφυσ]ς ἀκειρεκόμα<ι>, σ[θ]ν ἄρξομ [ὕμ]νον ἐγερσιβόαν () ]νεσι[ν] εὐεπ [η ][ ][]αν[ ]οβοα ]συρίγμασι μιγν[μεν]ον 5]σι Κεκροπιδῶν [ἐπ]ιτάρροθον ] μόλοις τὸν [χρυσο]κόμα[ν ]ν αὐτο[ ] ] ] 10Ὀλύ]μπιον
desunt vv. vi17] τερα
(ii) 4 λυρ[
1 init. Buecheler, fin. Oliver 2 init. Page, cett. Oliver 3 Dittenberger fort. αὐλ]οβόα Page 4 Oliver 5 Wilhelm 6, 10 OliverSophocles
by you.1
(b) Inscription from the Asclepieum at Athens1 (200–250 a.d.)
Paean of SophoclesWide-famed daughter of Phlegyas, mother of the god who wards off pain, (whom you bore to) the Unshorn,2 yours is the shout-raising hymn which I shall begin . . . (euphony?) . . . -shouting . . . mingled with pipings . . . helper of the Cecropidae3 . . . may you come . . . the Golden-haired4 . . . him(self) . . . Olympian. . .
- 1James H. Oliver, Hesperia 5 (1936) 121 f. argues convincingly that Phil.’s ascription of the epithet to Sophocles is mistaken, and that it belongs rather to the famous ‘Erythraean’ paean (P.M.G. 934), which begins ‘Sing of skill-famed Paean’.
- 1Photographs in Oliver, loc. cit. pp. 110, 112. The paean was performed in Athens c. 174/5 a.d. It is addressed to Coronis, mother of Asclepius.
- 2Apollo.
- 3Cecrops was a mythical king of Athens.
- 4Apollo. Another piece of the stone (ii), which preserves a few letters of line-beginnings, has ‘lyre’, perhaps ‘lyre-singer’ of Apollo.