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title: Hymn to Lysias on Virtue
title_greek: Ἀπόσπασμα
author: "Philiscus of Miletus "
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period: Classical
dialect: Attic
domain: Oratory
format: Oration
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# Hymn to Lysias on Virtue

*Ἀπόσπασμα*

**Author:** Philiscus of Miletus 

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## Text

### 1

⊗ 〈νῦν〉 ὦ Καλλιόπης θύγατερ, πολυήγορε Φροντί, δείξεις, εἴ τι φρονεῖς καί τι περισσὸν ἔχεις· τὸν γὰρ ἐς ἄλλο σχῆμα μεθαρμοσθέντα καὶ ἄλλοις ἐν κόσμοισι βίου σῶμα λαβόνθ’ ἕτερον .........

### 2

δεῖ ς’ ἀρετῆς κήρυκα τεκεῖν τινα Λυσίαι ὕμνον δόντα καταφθιμένων καὶ σοφῶι ἀθάνατον, ὃς τό τ’ ἐμῆς ψυχῆς δείξει φιλέταιρον ἅπασιν καὶ τὴν τοῦ φθιμένου πᾶσι βροτοῖς ἀρετήν.

*[crux: δόντα καταφθιμένων καὶ σοφῶι ἀθάνατον]*

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