Elegiac Poetry
Elegiac Poems
Book I
1–4
ὦ ἄνα, Λητοῦς υἱέ, Διὸς τέκος, οὔποτε σεῖο λήσομαι ἀρχόμενος οὐδ᾿ ἀποπαυόμενος, ἀλλ᾿ αἰεὶ πρῶτόν τε καὶ ὕστατον ἔν τε μέσοισιν ἀείσω· σὺ δέ μοι κλῦθι καὶ ἐσθλὰ δίδου.
5–105Φοῖβε ἄναξ, ὅτε μέν σε θεὰ τέκε πότνια Λητώ, φοίνικος ῥαδινῇς χερσὶν ἐφαψαμένη,
- 6ῥαδινῆς codd. plerique
Theognis
Elegiac Poems
Book I
1–4
O lord, son of Leto, child of Zeus,1 I will never forget you at the beginning or at the end, but I will ever sing of you first, last, and in between; and do you give ear to me and grant me success.
5–10Lord Phoebus, when the august goddess Leto gave birth to you, fairest of the immortals, as she clasped
- 1Apollo.
DOI: 10.4159/DLCL.theognis-elegiac_poems.1999