HH.2.429 νάρκισσόν θ' ὃν ἔφυσ' ὥς περ κρόκον εὐρεῖα χθών.
HH.2.429 Also the fatal narcissus that broad earth produced like a crocus.
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αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ δρεπόμην περὶ χάρματι, γαῖα δ' ἔνερθε
HH.2.430 This I was plucking for joy when the earth underneath me gaped vastly;
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χώρησεν, τῇ δ' ἔκθορ' ἄναξ κρατερὸς πολυδέγμων.
HH.2.431 Out leapt that powerful lord, the Receiver of Many, and bore me
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βῆ δὲ φέρων ὑπὸ γαῖαν ἐν ἅρμασι χρυσείοισι
HH.2.432 Under the earth on his gold-plated chariot. Very unwilling
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πόλλ' ἀεκαζομένην, ἐβόησα δ' ἄρ' ὄρθια φωνῇ.
HH.2.433 Was I, I shouted aloud at the top of my voice, but in vain. And
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ταῦτά τοι ἀχνυμένη περ ἀληθέα πάντ' ἀγορεύω.
HH.2.434 There, though it causes me many a pang, I have told you the whole truth."
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ὣς τότε μὲν πρόπαν ἦμαρ ὁμόφρονα θυμὸν ἔχουσαι
HH.2.435 Mother and daughter the whole of the day in unanimous humour
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πολλὰ μάλ' ἀλλήλων κραδίην καὶ θυμὸν ἴαινον
HH.2.436 Thereupon gladdened each other in heart and in mind very greatly,
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ἀμφαγαπαζόμεναι, ἀχέων δ' ἀπεπαύετο θυμός.
HH.2.437 Clinging together in love till their spirits abated their sorrows.
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γηθοσύνας δὲ δέχοντο παρ' ἀλλήλων ἔδιδ[όν τε.]
HH.2.438 Mutual pleasures and joys they received and they gave one another.
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τῇσιν δ' ἐγγύθεν ἦλθ' Ἑκάτη λιπαροκρήδεμνος,
HH.2.439 Hecate, her of the glittering headdress, came into their presence,
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πολλὰ δ' ἄρ' ἀμφαγάπησε κόρην Δημήτερος ἁγνῆς:
HH.2.440 Frequently kissed with affection the daughter of holy Demeter.
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ἐκ τοῦ οἱ πρόπολος καὶ ὀπάων ἔπλετ' ἄνασσα.
HH.2.441 Henceforth that lady became to Persephone servant and handmaid.
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ταῖς δὲ μετάγγελον ἧκε βαρύκτυπος εὐρύοπα Ζεὺς
HH.2.442 Golden-haired Rhea, his mother, deep-thundering, widely-discerning
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Ῥείην ἠΰκομον ἣν μητέρα κυανόπεπλον
HH.2.443 Zeus had appointed as envoy to summon the sable-cloaked goddess
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ἀξέμεναι μετὰ φῦλα θεῶν, ὑπέδεκτο δὲ τιμὰς
HH.2.444 Back to her kindred the gods, where he promised to give her such honours
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δωσέμεν, ἅς κεν ἕλοιτο μετ' ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι:
HH.2.445 And she desired to obtain in the company of the immortals.
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νεῦσε δέ οἱ κούρην ἔτεος περιτελλομένοιο
HH.2.446 Thus he decreed that her daughter should dwell a third part of the turning
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τὴν τριτάτην μὲν μοῖραν ὑπὸ ζόφον ἠερόεντα,
HH.2.447 Year under vaporous darkness, the other two parts with her mother
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τὰς δὲ δύω παρὰ μητρὶ καὶ ἄλλοις ἀθανάτοισιν.
HH.2.448 And with the other immortals; and Rhea obeyed his commission.
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ὣς ἔφατ': οὐδ' ἀπίθησε θεὰ Διὸς ἀγγελιάων.
HH.2.449 (blank line)
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ἐσσυμένως δ' ἤϊξε κατ' Οὐλύμποιο καρήνων,
HH.2.450 Down from the heights of Olympus she darted imperious till she
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εἰς δ' ἄρα Ῥάριον ἷξε, φερέσβιον οὖθαρ ἀρούρης
HH.2.451 Came to the Rharian plain, a rich, life-giving udder of ploughland
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τὸ πρίν, ἀτὰρ τότε γ' οὔ τι φερέσβιον, ἀλλὰ ἕκηλον
HH.2.452 Once, but now not at all life-giving: fallow it stood, and all leafless.
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ἑστήκει πανάφυλλον: ἔκευθε δ' ἄρα κρῖ λευκὸν
HH.2.453 By the design of fair-ankled Demeter the barley lay hidden.
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μήδεσι Δήμητρος καλλισφύρου: αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα
HH.2.454 Not long thereafter the plain would be coiffed with the corn's narrow ears when
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μέλλεν ἄφαρ ταναοῖσι κομήσειν ἀσταχύεσσιν
HH.2.455 Spring turned to summer, and while the rich furrows were laden with corn stalks
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ἦρος ἀεξομένοιο, πέδῳ δ' ἄρα πίονες ὄγμοι
HH.2.456 Others were bound into sheaves. Such the spot where the goddess first landed
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βρισέμεν ἀσταχύων, τὰ δ' ἐν ἐλλεδανοῖσι δεδέσθαι.
HH.2.457 From the unharvested air. When they gladly beheld one another
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ἔνθ' ἐπέβη πρώτιστον ἀπ' αἰθέρος ἀτρυγέτοιο:
HH.2.458 Both of the goddesses' hearts were rejoiced. And then brightly crowned Rhea