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Rh My sweet mother! Fair Aphrodite’s spell

Has from me sense and reason all bereft,

And, yearning for that dear beloved youth,

No longer can I see the warp or weft.

Quoted by Hephaestion as an example of metre.

Raise high the roof beams, Workmen!

Hymenaeus!

Like Ares comes the bridegroom!

Hymenaeus!

Taller far than all tall men!

Hymenaeus!

Quoted by Hephaestion as an example of mes-hymnic poem.