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Callimachus · Iambs §14.1

Libation and Invocation to the Muses and Apollo

Passage 15 of 22 · Greek

Summary

A brief invocation and libation offered by the speaker to the beautiful Muses and Apollo.

§14.1Μοῦσαι καλαὶ κἄπολλον οἷς ἐγὼ σπένδω. and, and.
Beautiful Muses, and Apollo, to whom I pour libations. and, and.

Notes

  1. 14.1κἄπολλον — A crasis (vowel contraction) of the conjunction καὶ and the vocative singular Ἄπολλον.
  2. 14.1οἷς ἐγὼ σπένδω — The relative pronoun οἷς (dative plural masculine) agrees in gender and number with the compound antecedent of the feminine plural Μοῦσαι and masculine singular Ἄπολλον (taking the masculine plural by grammatical convention). The verb σπένδω governs the dative of the recipient of the libation.

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Callimachus, Iambs §14.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0533.tlg007.humanitext-grc1:14.1

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