{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0013.tlg004.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0013.tlg004.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg004.local001","title":"Hymn 4 To Hermes","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"HYMNI HOMERICI","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0013-hymni-homerici/","editors":["Hugh G. Evelyn-White"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann Ltd.","place":"London","date":"1914","volume":null,"series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/hesiodhomerichym00hesiuoft/hesiodhomerichym00hesiuoft/page/362/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Hymn 4 To Hermes. ed. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1914. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg004.local001","excerpt":"Ἑρμῆν ὕμνει, Μοῦσα, Διὸς καὶ Μαιάδος υἱόν, Κυλλήνης μεδέοντα καὶ Ἀρκαδίης πολυμήλου, ἄγγελον ἀθανάτων ἐριούνιον, ὃν τέκε Μαῖα, νύμφη ἐυπλόκαμος, Διὸς ἐν φιλότητι μιγεῖσα, αἰδοίη· μακάρων δὲ θεῶν ἠλεύαθʼ ὅμιλον, ἄντρον ἔσω ναίουσα παλίσκιον, ἔνθα Κρονίων νύμφῃ ἐυπλοκάμῳ μισγέσκετο νυκτὸς ἀμολγῷ, ὄφρα κατὰ γλυκὺς ὕπνος ἔχοι λευκώλενον Ἥρην, λήθων ἀθανάτους τε θεοὺς θνητούς τʼ ἀνθρώπους. ἀλλʼ ὅτε δὴ μεγάλοιο Διὸς νόος ἐξετελεῖτο, τῇ δʼ ἤδη δέκατος μεὶς οὐρανῷ ἐστήρικτο, εἴς τε φόως ἄγαγεν ἀρίσημά τε ἔργα τέτυκτο· καὶ τότʼ ἐγείνατο παῖδα πολύτροπον, αἱμυλομήτην, ληιστῆρʼ, ἐλατῆρα βοῶν, ἡγήτορʼ ὀνείρων, νυκτὸς ὀπωπητῆρα, πυληδόκον, ὃς τάχʼ ἔμελλεν ἀμφανέειν κλυτὰ ἔργα μετʼ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν. ἠῷος γεγονὼς μέσῳ ἤματι ἐγκιθάριζεν, ἑσπέριος βοῦς κλέψεν ἑκηβόλου Ἀπόλλωνος τετράδι τῇ προτέρῃ, τῇ μιν τέκε πότνια Μαῖα. ὃς καί, ἐπειδὴ μητρὸς ἀπʼ ἀθανάτων θόρε γυίων, οὐκέτι δηρὸν ἔκειτο μένων ἱερῷ…","divisions":[{"label":"Εἲς Ἑρμῆν","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0013.tlg004.local001/#tlg0013-tlg004-local001-urn-cts-greeklit-tlg0013-tlg004-perseus-grc2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0013.tlg004.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0013.tlg004.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0013/tlg004/local001.json.gz"}}