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title: "Declamations and Orations: Oration 37 (Epithalamium for Panathenaeus)"
title_greek: "Μελέται καὶ Λόγοι, Ἐπιθαλάμιος εἰς Παναθήναιον"
author: Himerius the Sophist
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# Declamations and Orations: Oration 37 (Epithalamium for Panathenaeus)

*Μελέται καὶ Λόγοι, Ἐπιθαλάμιος εἰς Παναθήναιον*

**Author:** Himerius the Sophist

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## Text

Part of [Declamations and Orations](/works/himerius-declamations-orations-siy-ac)

`37`

Ἐπιθαλάμιος εἰς Παναθήναιον.

Θύμβρις δὲ ἄνωθεν ἐξ Ἰταλίας πολὺς φερόμενος μέχρι πρὸς τὴν πόλιν πελαγίζει, ἐπιπολάζων τῷ ῥεύματι· ἐπειδὰν δὲ ὁμιλήσῃ τῇ πόλει, σχίζων εἰς δύο πόρους τὰ ῥεύματα, εἶτα συνελθὼν αὖθις καὶ εἷς μετὰ τοῦτο γενόμενος, περὶ τὸ μέσον τῶν πόρων τὸ ῥεῦμα περιρρήγνυσι, καὶ νῆσον οὐκ ὀλίγην ἐργάζεται. τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον τέμενος Ἀσκληπιῷ παῖδες Ῥωμαίων ἀνέθεσαν ...

Ἀσκληπιὸς μετὰ τὸ δοῦναι πᾶσι τὴν τέχνην καὶ μετὰ τὸ τρισὶν ἠπείροις δοῦναι τὰ θαύματα τῆς τέχνης, εἰς πόλιν ἦλθε τοῦ Θύμβριδος ...

Βόσπορος δὲ ἐκεῖνος ὁ Θρᾴκιος, ἡ στενὴ καὶ ῥοώδης θάλασσα, ἣν γεννᾷ μὲν πόντος Εὔξεινος, σχίζων τὰς ἠπείρους τῷ ῥεύματι, διαχεῖται δὲ διὰ Προποντίδος, εὐρὺς Αἰγαῖος γινόμενος ...

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