{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0002.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0002.tlg001.local001","title":"Elegiae","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":null,"authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":null,"editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"Elegiae, ed. D. Young (post E. Diehl), Theognis, 2nd edn., Leipzig: Teubner, 1971: 1–83. Cod: 9,510: Eleg.","citationShort":"Elegiae, ed. D. Young (post E. Diehl), Theognis, 2nd edn., Leipzig: Teubner, 1971: 1–83."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://maximus.tlg.uci.edu/canon.php","sourceLinkType":"catalogue","sourceRights":null,"citation":"Elegiae. Elegiae, ed. D. Young (post E. Diehl), Theognis, 2nd edn., Leipzig: Teubner, 1971: 1–83.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0002.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"{ΕΛΕΓΕΙΩΝ Α̅} Ὦ ἄνα, Λητοῦς υἱέ, Διὸς τέκος, οὔποτε σεῖο λήσομαι ἀρχόμενος οὐδ' ἀποπαυόμενος, ἀλλ' αἰεὶ πρῶτόν τε καὶ ὕστατον ἔν τε μέσοισιν ἀείσω· σὺ δέ μοι κλῦθι καὶ ἐσθλὰ δίδου. Φοῖβε ἄναξ, ὅτε μέν σε θεὰ τέκε πότνια Λητώ φοίνικος ῥαδινῆις χερσὶν ἐφαψαμένη ἀθανάτων κάλλιστον ἐπὶ τροχοειδέι λίμνηι, πᾶσα μὲν ἐπλήσθη Δῆλος ἀπειρεσίη ὀδμῆς ἀμβροσίης, ἐγέλασσε δὲ Γαῖα πελώρη, γήθησεν δὲ βαθὺς πόντος ἁλὸς πολιῆς. Ἄρτεμι θηροφόνη, θύγατερ Διός, ἣν Ἀγαμέμνων εἵσαθ', ὅτ' ἐς Τροίην ἔπλεε νηυσὶ θοῆις, εὐχομένωι μοι κλῦθι, κακὰς δ' ἀπὸ κῆρας ἄλαλκε· σοὶ μὲν τοῦτο, θεά, σμικρόν, ἐμοὶ δὲ μέγα. Μοῦσαι καὶ Χάριτες, κοῦραι Διός, αἵ ποτε Κάδμου ἐς γάμον ἐλθοῦσαι καλὸν ἀείσατ' ἔπος, ‘ὅττι καλόν, φίλον ἐστί· τὸ δ' οὐ καλὸν οὐ φίλον ἐστί,’ τοῦτ' ἔπος ἀθανάτων ἦλθε διὰ στομάτων. Κύρνε, σοφιζομένωι μὲν ἐμοὶ σφρηγὶς ἐπικείσθω τοῖσδ' ἔπεσιν, λήσει δ' οὔποτε κλεπτόμενα, οὐδέ τις ἀλλάξει κάκιον τοὐσθλοῦ…","divisions":[{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Section 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-segment-1"},{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Section 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-segment-2"},{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Section 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-segment-3"},{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Section 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-segment-4"},{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Section 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-segment-5"},{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Section 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/#tlg0002-tlg001-local001-segment-6"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0002.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0002/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}