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Original / primary: Perseus Eng2
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Because Zeus
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Cyllene
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The child is no thief.
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If he does bad things, then he is bad.
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I don’t like to hear bad things about Zeus’s son.
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But if it’s the truth, then I have to say it.
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Don’t say Here follow about 8 lines of which we have only the initial letters.
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Where are the cattle pastured?
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Most of them now
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Who has them, wretch? Who
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The boy has closed them up inside.
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Stop saying bad things about Zeus’s son!
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I would stop, if someone would bring out the cattle.
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You’re choking me, you and those cows of yours.
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left drive them out One whole column of the papyrus is missing, perhaps more.
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Hey! Oh! what she said he didn’t
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Silenus
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Hey!
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Oh Loxias, of the cows
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Apollo
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cows reward free The fragment ends here. From the Homeric Hymn to Hermes , we can assume that Apollo and Hermes have a scene together, ending with the restoration of the cattle to their rightful owner. Hermes also gives Apollo the lyre, which is his instrument forever after.
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Semi-chorus B
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Definitely. All the signs say so clearly.
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Chorus
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I’m getting out of here!
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Silenus
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Stay, if you can.
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Cyllene
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and this is his only consolation or cure for sorrow. He enjoys idly singing along; he coaxes Aeolian tunes from the lyre. Thus the boy made himself a voice from a dead animal.