The Euphrates as ‘the Assyrian river’ in Callimachus (1)

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Callimachus, Hymns 2.105-112:
Envy spoke secretly in the ear of Apollo:
“I do not admire the poet who does not sing as much as there is sea”
Apollo spurned Envy with his foot and spoke thus:
Great is the stream of the Assyrian river,
But much filth of earth and much refuse it carries on its waters.
And not of every water do the bees carry to Deo
But what was pure and unsullied, a small, trickling stream
From a sacred spring, its finest product.”

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Callimachus, Hymns 2.105-112

Erik van Dongen

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