The convivial songs open with Attic skolia you could actually sing. Pallas Tritogeneia, lady Athena, set this city and its citizens upright, without pains, factions, or untimely deaths — you and the father. Then Demeter, Olympic mother of wealth, and Persephone, in the wreath-bearing seasons: rejoice, and tend this city well. On Delos Leto once bore children, golden-haired lord Apollo and the huntress Artemis who holds great power among women.
Pan of famous Arcadia, dancer, companion of the Bromian nymphs, may you laugh on these songs. We won as we wished, and the gods brought the victory. A wish: if only one could split the breast, look at the mind, close it again, and then count a man a friend with an undeceiving heart. Best for a mortal is to be healthy; second, to be fair in form; third, to be rich without fraud; fourth, to be young among friends.
The slot is that drinking-song booklet — hymns, prayers, and moral couplets — not a missing hymnist.
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