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title: Hymn to Demeter of Hermione
title_greek: Ἀπόσπασμα
author: Aristocles the Paradoxographer
eul_wid: kci-ab
eul_aid: kci
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/aristocles-paradoxographer-hymn-demeter-hermione-kci-ab"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine
domain: History
format: Prose
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Hymn to Demeter of Hermione

*Ἀπόσπασμα*

**Author:** Aristocles the Paradoxographer

**eul_wid:** `kci-ab` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/aristocles-paradoxographer-hymn-demeter-hermione-kci-ab)

## Text

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Δάματερ πολύκαρπε, σὺ Σικελοῖσιν ἐναργὴς καὶ παρ’ Ἐρεχθείδαις, ἓν δέ τι 〈τοῦτο〉 μέγα κρίνετ’ ἐν Ἑρμιονεῦσι· τὸν ἐξ ἀγέλης γὰρ ἀφειδῆ ταῦρον, ὃν οὐχ αἱροῦς’ ἀνέρες οὐδὲ δέκα, τοῦτον γραῦς στείχουσα μόνα μόνον οὔατος ἕλκει τόνδ’ ἐπὶ βωμόν, ὁ δ’ ὡς ματέρι παῖς ἕπεται. σὸν τόδε, Δάματερ, σὸν τὸ σθένος· ἵλαος εἴης, καὶ πάντων θάλλοι κλᾶρος ἐν Ἑρμιόνᾳ. *

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