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Hymn XIX.

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XIX. TO APOLLO.

O Phœbus, thee indeed the swan also sings sweetly, flapping its wings,^[1] leaping upon the bank by the eddying river Peneus, but thee the sweet-voiced bard, having his clear-toned lyre, ever sings both first and last. And do thou thus hail, but I appease thee by song.

↑ Not "sub alis," but "cum plansu alarum, applaudens cantui," says Ernesti. Cf. Virg. Æn. i. 411, "Ut reduces illi (cycni) ludunt stridentibus alis . . . . cantusque dedere."

[1] Not "sub alis," but "cum plansu alarum, applaudens cantui," says Ernesti. Cf. Virg. Æn. i. 411, "Ut reduces illi (cycni) ludunt stridentibus alis . . . . cantusque dedere."

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