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Nearly two-thirds of the Fragments cannot be assigned to any distinct class: the rest are divided among (1), or Triumphal Odes (such as are the odes remaining to us entire), (2) , or Hymns sung by a choir in honour of gods, (3) , or Hymns of a like kind but anciently addressed especially to Apollo and Artemis for their intervention against pestilence, (4) , or choral songs of more general compass, verging sometimes on the drama, (5) , or Processional Songs, (6) , or Songs for a Choir of Maidens, (7) , or Songs with Accompaniment of Dance, (8) , or Odes sung by a in praise of some person but not necessarily on any special occasion, (9) , or Songs to be sung at Banquets, (10) , or Dirges.

Olympian gods to our choice dance, and make your grace to descend thereon and to glorify it, ye who in sacred Athens visit the city's incensed centre-stone, and her famed market-place of splendid ornament; receive ye violet-entwinëd crowns and drink-offerings of spring-gathered herbs, and look on me who am come from the house of Zeus with my bright song a second time unto the ivy-crownëd god, whom we call Bromios, even the god of clamorous shout.

To sing the offspring of the Highest and of Kadmean mothers am I come.

In Argive Nemea the prophet of the god overlooketh not the