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Hello world! --User:Francois-Pier (talk) 01:54, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

hello back and welcome ...

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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 02:21, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! --Francois-Pier (talk) 02:48, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Euthymus article

{{helpme}} I cannot find the valid Greek special character (Edit → Menu → Special characters) and I use (Εύθυμος) in article Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Euthymus (Source: the original article of Euthymus is here). Where is the full table of these Greek special characters? --Francois-Pier (talk) 13:26, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

I usually look them up at unicode sites, eg. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/greek_and_coptic/images.htm, click the link and utilise the html entity code. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:38, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Ghazi

{{help me}} Please check this

<span title="Mohammedans is the correct">Mahommedans</span>

I use it in the article 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ghazi. --Francois-Pier (talk) 05:37, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

We use a template to pretty much do the same thing...

{{SIC|Mahommedans|Mohammedans}} results in Mahommedans

...with the same type of mouseover pop-up note. -- George Orwell III (talk) 07:47, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Pagination and Transclusion

Thank you for this contribution Gruter, Jan (25 September 2014) and others like it. Instead of hiding the page numbers in an editorial comment please consider using Style Manual: Pagination, or better still use Transclusion. -- PBS (talk) 06:10, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Proofing in EB1911 vol. 24

Bonjour Francois-Pier, thanks for your recent proofing e.g. Page:EB1911 - Volume 22.djvu/833 and Page:EB1911 - Volume 22.djvu/834, I have made further typo fixes on these pages (I have been searching EB1911 for common scan errors e.g. "]ersey" for "Jersey" and found one on djvu.834. I also found a further nine typo errors on that page (plus other issues), please only mark a page as proofed if you have proofed all of it (there were six errors in the first paragraph alone). Another obvious error was "dorninions" for "dominions" — the error shows with a red underline when editing in the browser, so it does stand out.

I also used the {Polytonic} template for Greek text (which correctly renders Greek as printed) and added transliteration (which is used extensively in EB1911). A useful website for the transliteration is http://transliterate.com/ The consensus for B.C. is smaller text not small-caps, so use {{smaller|B.C.}}

Another useful source for checking text are the high-resolution scans at archive.org e.g. https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabri22chisrich#page/816/mode/1up where you can zoom in.

For fine print across pages use {{EB1911 fine print/s}} and {{EB1911 fine print/e}} as I have used on those pages (which maintains the fine print without a line break when transcluded). If you have any questions, just ask. Regards, DivermanAU (talk) 20:09, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Bonjour @DivermanAU: When I started contributing I had not understood the use of Proofing, because of Validating, sorry for that typo errors. From the above, I don't use the templates {{Polytonic}} and {{EB1911 fine print}}, because I did not consider them necessary.

In addition, I have completed the ancient Greek texts in Index:Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica.djvu without polytonic (I can add it), but I don't know how to display these texts on opposite pages. Can you help me? Regards, Francois-Pier (talk) 21:02, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Bonjour again, that's OK about proofing. Regarding "Hesiod" I can try to help, but I'm not quite sure what you mean by "display these texts on opposite pages". Each page scan is just one page. Can you explain in more detail? DivermanAU (talk) 21:53, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

@DivermanAU: I try this, but is not ok:

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background-color: white"
|valign="top" width="40%"| <pages index="Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica.djvu" from=520 to=530 step=2 />
|valign="top"| <pages index="Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica.djvu" current="The Epigrams of Homer" prev="[[../Hymn XXXIII (To the Dioscuri)|Hymn XXXIII (To the Dioscuri)]]" next="[[../The War of the Titans|The War of the Titans]]" from=521 to=531 step=2 author="[[Author:Homer|Homer]]" header=1 />
|}

Example of opposite pages

ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΕΠΙΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ I  Αἰδεῖσθε ξενίων κεχρημένον ἠδὲ δόμοιο, οἳ πόλιν αἰπεινήν, Κύμην ἐριώπιδα κούρην, ναίετε, Σαρδήνης πόδα νείατον ὑψικόμοιο, ἀμβρόσιον πίνοντες ὕδωρ θείου ποταμοῖο, Ἕρμου δινήεντος, ὃν ἀθάνατος τέκετο Ζεύς. 5 II  Αἶψα πόδες με φέροιεν ἐς αἰδοίων πόλιν ἀνδρῶν· τῶν γὰρ καὶ θυμὸς πρόφρων καὶ μῆτις ἀρίστη. III  Χαλκέη παρθένος εἰμί, Μίδεω δ’ ἐπὶ σήματι κεῖμαι· ἔστ’ ἂν ὕδωρ τε νάῃ[1] καὶ δένδρεα μακρὰ τεθήλῃ, ἠέλιος τ’ ἀνιὼν λάμπῃ λαμπρά τε σελήνη, καὶ ποταμοί γε ῥέωσιν ἀνακλύζῃ δὲ θάλασσα, αὐτοῦ τῇδε μένουσα πολυκλαύτου ἐπὶ τύμβου 5 ἀγγελέω παριοῦσι, Μίδης ὅτι τῇδε τέθαπται. IV  Οἵῃ μ’ αἴσῃ δῶκε πατὴρ Ζεὺς κύρμα γενέσθαι, νήπιον αἰδοίης ἐπὶ γούνασι μητρὸς ἀτάλλων. ἥν ποτ’ ἐπύργωσαν βουλῇ Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο λαοὶ Φρίκωνος, μάργων ἐπιβήτορες ἵππων, ὁπλότεροι μαλεροῖο πυρὸς κρίνοντες Ἄρηα, 5 Αἰολίδα Σμύρνην ἁλιγείτονα, ποντοτίνακτον, ἥντε δι’ ἀγλαὸν εἶσιν ὕδωρ ἱεροῖο Μέλητος· ἔνθεν ἀπορνύμεναι κοῦραι Διός, ἀγλαὰ τέκνα. ἠθελέτην κλῇσαι δῖαν χθόνα καὶ πόλιν ἀνδρῶν. οἳ δ’ ἀπανηνάσθην ἱερὴν ὄπα, φῆμιν ἀοιδῆς, 10 ἀφραδίῃ· τῶν μέν τε παθών τις φράσσεται αὖτις, ὅς σφιν ὀνείδεσσιν τὸν ἐμὸν διεμήσατο πότμον. κῆρα δ’ ἐγώ, τήν μοι θεὸς ὤπασε γεινομένῳ περ, τλήσομαι ἀκράαντα φέρων τετληότι θυμῷ· οὐδέ τί μοι φίλα γυῖα μένειν ἱεραῖς ἐν ἀγυιαῖς 15 Κύμης ὁρμαίνουσι, μέγας δέ με θυμὸς ἐπείγει δῆμον ἐς ἀλλοδαπῶν ἰέναι, ὀλίγον περ ἐόντα. V  Θεστορίδη, θνητοῖσιν ἀνωίστων πολέων περ, οὐδὲν ἀφραστότερον πέλεται νόου ἀνθρώποισιν. VI  Κλῦθι, Ποσείδαον, μεγαλοσθενές, ἐννοσίγαιε, εὐρυχόρου μεδέων ἠδὲ ξανθοῦ Ἑλικῶνος, δὸς δ’ οὖρον καλὸν καὶ ἀπήμονα νόστον ἰδέσθαι ναύταις, οἳ νηὸς πομποὶ ἠδ’ ἀρχοὶ ἔασι· δὸς δ’ ἐς ὑπωρείην ὑψικρήμνοιο Μίμαντος 5 αἰδοίων μ’ ἐλθόντα βροτῶν ὁσίων τε κυρῆσαι, φῶτά τε τισαίμην, ὃς ἐμὸν νόον ἠπεροπεύσας ὠδύσατο Ζῆνα ξένιον ξενίην τε τράπεζαν. VII  Πότνια Γῆ, πάνδωρε, δότειρα μελίφρονος ὄλβου, ὡς ἄρα δὴ τοῖς μὲν φωτῶν εὔοχθος ἐτύχθης, τοῖσι δὲ δύσβωλος καὶ τρηχεῖ, οἷς ἐχολώθης. VIII  Ναῦται ποντοπόροι, στυγερῇ ἐναλίγκιοι ἄτῃ πτωκάσιν αἰθυίῃσι, βίον δύσζηλον ἔχοντες, αἰδεῖσθε ξενίοιο Διὸς σέβας ὑψιμέδοντος· δεινὴ γὰρ μέτ’ ὄπις ξενίου Διός, ὅς κ’ ἀλίτηται. IX [2]  Ὑμέας, ὦ ξεῖνοι, ἄνεμος λάβεν ἀντίος ἐλθών· ἀλλ’ ἐμὲ νῦν δέξασθε, καὶ ὁ πλόος ἔσσεται ὑμῖν. X  Ἄλλη τίς σευ πεύκη ἀμείνονα καρπὸν ἵησιν Ἴδης ἐν κορυφῇσι πολυπτύχου ἠνεμοέσσης, ἔνθα σίδηρος Ἄρηος ἐπιχθονίοισι βροτοῖσιν ἔσσεται, εὖτ’ ἄν μιν Κεβρήνιοι ἄνδρες ἔχωσι. XI  Γλαῦκε, βοτῶν[3] ἐπίοπτα, ἔπος τί τοι ἐν φρεσὶ θήσω· πρῶτον μὲν κυσὶ δεῖπνον ἐπ’ αὐλείῃσι θύρησι δοῦναι· τὼς γὰρ ἄμεινον· ὃ γὰρ καὶ πρῶτον ἀκούει ἀνδρὸς ἐπερχομένου καὶ ἐς ἕρκεα θηρὸς ἰόντος. XII  Κλῦθί μευ εὐχομένου, Κουροτρόφε, δὸς δὲ γυναῖκα τήνδε νέων μὲν ἀναίνεσθαι φιλότητα καὶ εὐνήν· ἣ δ’ ἐπιτερπέσθω πολιοκροτάφοισι γέρουσιν, ὧν ὥρη μὲν ἀπήμβλυνται, θυμὸς δὲ μενοινᾷ. XIII  Ἀνδρὸς μὲν στέφανος παῖδες, πύργοι δὲ πόληος, ἵπποι δ’ αὖ πεδίου κόσμος, νῆες δὲ θαλάσσης, χρήματα δ’ αὔξει οἶκον, ἀτὰρ γεραροὶ βασιλῆες ἥμενοι εἰν ἀγορῇ κόσμος λαοῖσιν[4] ὁρᾶσθαι· αἰθομένου δὲ πυρὸς γεραρώτερος οἶκος ἰδέσθαι 5 ἤματι χειμερίῳ, ὁπότ’ ἂν νίφῃσι Κρονίων. XIV  Εἰ μὲν δώσετε μισθὸν ἀείσω, ὦ κεραμῆες. δεῦρ, ἄγ, Ἀθηναίη καὶ ὑπέρσχεθε χεῖρα καμίνου. εὖ δὲ περανθεῖεν[5] κότυλοι καὶ πάντα κάναστρα φρυχθῆναί τε καλῶς καὶ τιμῆς ὦνον ἀρέσθαι, πολλὰ μὲν εἰν ἀγορῇ πωλεύμενα, πολλὰ δ’ ἀγυιαῖς, 5 πολλὰ δὲ κερδῆναι, ἡμῖν δὲ δή, ὥς σφιν ἀεῖσαι. ἢν δ’ ἐπ’ ἀναιδείην τρεφθέντες ψεύδε’ ἄρησθε, συγκαλέω δὴ ἔπειτα καμίνων δηλητῆρας, Σύντριβ’ ὁμῶς Σμάραγόν τε καὶ Ἄσβετον ἠδὲ Σαβάκτην Ὠμόδαμόν τ, ὃς τῇδε τέχνῃ κακὰ πολλὰ πορίζοι· 10 πέρθε πυραίθουσαν καὶ δώματα, σὺν δὲ κάμινος πᾶσα κυκηθείη κεραμέων μέγα κωκυσάντων. ὡς γνάθος ἱππείη βρύκει, βρύκοι δὲ κάμινος, πάντ’ ἔντοσθ’ αὐτῆς κεραμήια λεπτὰ ποιοῦσα. δεῦρο καὶ Ἠελίου θύγατερ, πολυφάρμακε Κίρκη, 15 ἄγρια φάρμακα βάλλε, κάκου δ’ αὐτούς τε καὶ ἔργα. δεῦρο δὲ καὶ Χείρων ἀγέτω πολέας Κενταύρους, οἵθ’ Ἡρακλῆος χεῖρας φύγον οἵτ’ ἀπόλοντο, τύπτοιεν τάδε ἔργα κακῶς, πίπτοι δὲ κάμινος· αὐτοὶ δ’ οἰμώζοντες ὁρῴατο ἔργα πονηρά. 20 γηθήσω δ’ ὁρόων αὐτῶν κακοδαίμονα τέχνην· ὃς δέ χ’ ὑπερκύψῃ, πυρὶ τούτου πᾶν τὸ πρόσωπον φλεχθείη, ὡς πάντες ἐπίστωντ’ αἴσιμα ῥέζειν. XV  Δῶμα προσετραπόμεσθ’ ἀνδρὸς μέγα δυναμένοιο, ὃς μέγα μὲν δύναται, μέγα δὲ πρέπει[6] ὄλβιος αἰεί. αὐταὶ ἀνακλίνεσθε θύραι· Πλοῦτος γὰρ ἔσεισι πολλός, σὺν Πλούτῳ δὲ καὶ Εὐφροσύνη τεθαλυῖα Εἰρήνη τ’ ἀγαθή· ὅσα δ’ ἄγγεα, μεστὰ μὲν εἴη, 5 κυρβαίν δ’ αἰεὶ κατὰ καρδόπου ἕρποι μᾶζα. νῦν μὲν κριθαίην, εὐώπιδα, σησαμόεσσα    *     *     *     *  Τοῦ παιδὸς δὲ γυνὴ κατὰ δίφραδα βήσεται ὕμμιν· ἡμίονοι δ’ ἄξουσι κραταίποδες ἐς τόδε δῶμα· αὐτὴ δ’ ἱστὸν ὑφαίνοι ἐπ’ ἠλέκτρῳ βεβαυῖα. 10  Νεῦμαί τοι, νεῦμαι ἐνιαύσιος, ὥστε χελιδὼν ἕστηκ’ ἐν προθύροις ψιλὴ πόδας· ἀλλὰ φέρ’ αἶψα †πέρσαι τῶ Ἀπόλλωνος γυιάτιδος.† XVI  Εἰ μέν τι δώσεις· εἰ δὲ μή, οὐχ ἑστήξομεν· οὐ γὰρ συνοικήσοντες ἐνθάδ’ ἤλθομεν. XVII ΟΜΗΡΟΣ Ἄνδρες ἄγρης ἁλίης[7] θηρήτορες, ἦ ῥ’ ἔχομέν τι; ΑΛΙΕΙΣ Ὅσσ’ ἕλομεν, λιπόμεσθ· ὅσα δ’ οὐχ ἕλομεν φερόμεσθα. ΟΜΗΡΟΣ Τοίων γὰρ πατέρων ἐξ αἵματος ἐκγεγάασθε, οὔτε βαθυκλήρων οὔτ’ ἄσπετα μῆλα νεμόντων.

HOMER'S EPIGRAMS[8] I Have reverence for him who needs a home and stranger's dole, all ye who dwell in the high city of Cyme, the lovely maiden, hard by the foothills of lofty Sardene, ye who drink the heavenly water of the divine stream, eddying Hermus, whom deathless Zeus begot. II Speedily may my feet bear me to some town of righteous men; for their hearts are generous and their wit is best. III I am a maiden of bronze and am set upon the tomb of Midas. While the waters flow and tall trees flourish, and the sun rises and shines and the bright moon also; while rivers run and the sea breaks on the shore, ever remaining on this mournful tomb, I tell the passer-by that Midas here lies buried. IV To what a fate did Zeus the Father give me a prey even while he made me to grow, a babe at my mother's knees! By the will of Zeus who holds the aegis the people of Phricon, riders on wanton horses, more active than racing fire in the test of war, once built the towers of Aeolian Smyrna, wave-shaken neighbour to the sea, through which glides the pleasant stream of sacred Meles; thence[9] arose the daughters of Zeus, glorious children, and would fain have made famous that fair country and the city of its people. But in their folly those men scorned the divine voice and renown of song, and in trouble shall one of them remember this hereafter—he who with scornful words to them[10] contrived my fate. Yet I will endure the lot which heaven gave me even at my birth, bearing my disappointment with a patient heart. My dear limbs yearn not to stay in the sacred streets of Cyme, but rather my great heart urges me to go unto another country, small though I am. V Thestorides, full many things there are that mortals cannot sound: but there is nothing more unfathomable than the heart of man. VI Hear me, Poseidon, strong shaker of the earth, ruler of wide-spread, tawny Helicon! Give a fair wind and sight of safe return to the shipmen who speed and govern this ship. And grant that when 1 come to the nether slopes of towering Mimas I may find honourable, god-fearing men. Also may I avenge me on the wretch who deceived me and grieved Zeus the lord of guests and his own guest-table. VII Queen Earth, all bounteous giver of honey-hearted wealth, how kindly, it seems, you are to some, and how intractable and rough for those with whom you are angry. VIII Sailors, who rove the seas and whom a hateful fate has made as the shy sea-fowl, living an unenviable life, observe the reverence due to Zeus who rules on high, the god of strangers; for terrible is the vengeance of this god afterwards for whosoever has sinned. IX Strangers, a contrary wind has caught you: but even now take me aboard and you shall make your voyage. X Another sort of pine shall bear a better fruit[11] than you upon the heights of furrowed, windy Ida. For there shall mortal men get the iron that Ares loves, so soon as the Cebrenians shall hold the land. XI Glaucus, watchman of flocks, a word will I put in your heart. First give the dogs their dinner at the courtyard gate, for this is well. The dog first hears a man approaching and the wild-beast coming to the fence. XII Goddess-nurse of the young,[12] give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embrace of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire. XIII Children are a man's crown, towers of a city; horses are the glory of a plain, and so are ships of the sea; wealth will make a house great, and reverend princes seated in assembly are a goodly sight for the folk to see. But a blazing fire makes a house look more comely upon a winter's day, when the Son of Cronos sends down snow. XIV Potters, if you will give me a reward, I will sing for you. Come, then, Athena, with hand upraised[13] over the kiln. Let the pots and all the dishes turn out well and be well fired: let them fetch good prices and be sold in plenty in the market, and plenty in the streets. Grant that the potters may get great gain and grant me so to sing to them. But if you turn shameless and make false promises, then I call together the destroyers of kilns, Shatter and Smash and Charr and Crash and Crudebake who can work this craft much mischief. Come all of you and sack the kiln-yard and the buildings: let the whole kiln be shaken up to the potter's loud lament. As a horse's jaw grinds, so let the kiln grind to powder all the pots inside. And you, too, daughter of the Sun, Circe the witch, come and cast cruel spells; hurt both these men and their handiwork. Let Chiron also come and bring many Centaurs—all that escaped the hands of Heracles and all that were destroyed: let them make sad havoc of the pots and overthrow the kiln, and let the potters see the mischief and be grieved; but I will gloat as I behold their luckless craft. And if anyone of them stoops to peer in, let all his face be burned up, that all men may learn to deal honestly. XV[14] Let us betake us to the house of some man of great power,—one who bears great power and is greatly prosperous always. Open of yourselves, you doors, for mighty Wealth will enter in, and with Wealth comes jolly Mirth and gentle Peace. May all the corn-bins be full and the mass of dough always overflow the kneading-trough. Now (set before us) cheerful barley-pottage, full of sesame... Your son's wife, driving to this house with strong-hoofed mules, shall dismount from her carriage to greet you; may she be shod with golden shoes as she stands weaving at the loom. I come, and I come yearly, like the swallow that perches light-footed in the fore-part of your house. But quickly bring... XVI If you will give us anything (well). But if not, we will not wait, for we are not come here to dwell with you. XVII HOMER Hunters of deep sea prey, have we caught anything? FISHERMEN All that we caught we left behind, and all that we did not catch we carry home.[15] HOMER Ay, for of such fathers you are sprung as neither hold rich lands nor tend countless sheep.

1. Plato, Diogenes, Contest of Homer: ῥόῃ, pseudo-Herodotus.
2. Restored to metrical form by Barnes.
3. Kuester : πέπον, βροτῶν, MSS.
4. Ruhnken : τ’ ἄλλοισιν, Sources : The Contest of Homer adds the verse : λαὸς δ’ εἰν ἀγορῆσι καθήμενος εἰσοράασθαι.
5. Pollux : μελανθοῖεν, μελανθεῖεν, Life of Homer.
6. Ilgen : βρεμει, MSS.
7. Koechly : ἀπ’ Ἀρκαδίης, MSS.
8. The Epigrams are preserved in the pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer. Nos. III, XIII, and XVII are also found in the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, and No. I is also extant at the end of some MSS. of the Homeric Hymns.
9. sc. from Smyrna, Homer's reputed birth-place.
10. The councillors of Cyme who refused to support Homer at the public expense.
11. The "better fruit" is apparently the iron smelted out in fires of pine-wood.
12. Hecate: cp. Hesiod, Theogony, 450.
13. i.e. in protection.
14. This song is called by pseudo-Herodotus Εἰρησιώνη. The word properly indicates a garland wound with wool which was worn at harvest-festivals, but came to be applied first to the harvest song and then to any begging song. The present is akin to the Swallow-Song (Χελιδόνισμα), sung at the beginning of spring, and answering to the still surviving English May-Day songs. Cp. Athenaeus, viii. 360 b.
15. The lice which they caught in their clothes they left behind, but carried home in their clothes those which they could not catch.

Francois-Pier (talk) 22:22, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Hmmm - the display is close to being good, but the header is showing. I did try adding header="" to the second <pages.. command to try and stop the header appearing but that didn't work. DivermanAU (talk) 23:38, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

@DivermanAU:

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ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΕΠΙΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ I  Αἰδεῖσθε ξενίων κεχρημένον ἠδὲ δόμοιο, οἳ πόλιν αἰπεινήν, Κύμην ἐριώπιδα κούρην, ναίετε, Σαρδήνης πόδα νείατον ὑψικόμοιο, ἀμβρόσιον πίνοντες ὕδωρ θείου ποταμοῖο, Ἕρμου δινήεντος, ὃν ἀθάνατος τέκετο Ζεύς. 5 II  Αἶψα πόδες με φέροιεν ἐς αἰδοίων πόλιν ἀνδρῶν· τῶν γὰρ καὶ θυμὸς πρόφρων καὶ μῆτις ἀρίστη. III  Χαλκέη παρθένος εἰμί, Μίδεω δ’ ἐπὶ σήματι κεῖμαι· ἔστ’ ἂν ὕδωρ τε νάῃ[1] καὶ δένδρεα μακρὰ τεθήλῃ, ἠέλιος τ’ ἀνιὼν λάμπῃ λαμπρά τε σελήνη, καὶ ποταμοί γε ῥέωσιν ἀνακλύζῃ δὲ θάλασσα, αὐτοῦ τῇδε μένουσα πολυκλαύτου ἐπὶ τύμβου 5 ἀγγελέω παριοῦσι, Μίδης ὅτι τῇδε τέθαπται. IV  Οἵῃ μ’ αἴσῃ δῶκε πατὴρ Ζεὺς κύρμα γενέσθαι, νήπιον αἰδοίης ἐπὶ γούνασι μητρὸς ἀτάλλων. ἥν ποτ’ ἐπύργωσαν βουλῇ Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο λαοὶ Φρίκωνος, μάργων ἐπιβήτορες ἵππων, ὁπλότεροι μαλεροῖο πυρὸς κρίνοντες Ἄρηα, 5 Αἰολίδα Σμύρνην ἁλιγείτονα, ποντοτίνακτον, ἥντε δι’ ἀγλαὸν εἶσιν ὕδωρ ἱεροῖο Μέλητος· ἔνθεν ἀπορνύμεναι κοῦραι Διός, ἀγλαὰ τέκνα. ἠθελέτην κλῇσαι δῖαν χθόνα καὶ πόλιν ἀνδρῶν. οἳ δ’ ἀπανηνάσθην ἱερὴν ὄπα, φῆμιν ἀοιδῆς, 10 ἀφραδίῃ· τῶν μέν τε παθών τις φράσσεται αὖτις, ὅς σφιν ὀνείδεσσιν τὸν ἐμὸν διεμήσατο πότμον. κῆρα δ’ ἐγώ, τήν μοι θεὸς ὤπασε γεινομένῳ περ, τλήσομαι ἀκράαντα φέρων τετληότι θυμῷ· οὐδέ τί μοι φίλα γυῖα μένειν ἱεραῖς ἐν ἀγυιαῖς 15 Κύμης ὁρμαίνουσι, μέγας δέ με θυμὸς ἐπείγει δῆμον ἐς ἀλλοδαπῶν ἰέναι, ὀλίγον περ ἐόντα. V  Θεστορίδη, θνητοῖσιν ἀνωίστων πολέων περ, οὐδὲν ἀφραστότερον πέλεται νόου ἀνθρώποισιν. VI  Κλῦθι, Ποσείδαον, μεγαλοσθενές, ἐννοσίγαιε, εὐρυχόρου μεδέων ἠδὲ ξανθοῦ Ἑλικῶνος, δὸς δ’ οὖρον καλὸν καὶ ἀπήμονα νόστον ἰδέσθαι ναύταις, οἳ νηὸς πομποὶ ἠδ’ ἀρχοὶ ἔασι· δὸς δ’ ἐς ὑπωρείην ὑψικρήμνοιο Μίμαντος 5 αἰδοίων μ’ ἐλθόντα βροτῶν ὁσίων τε κυρῆσαι, φῶτά τε τισαίμην, ὃς ἐμὸν νόον ἠπεροπεύσας ὠδύσατο Ζῆνα ξένιον ξενίην τε τράπεζαν. VII  Πότνια Γῆ, πάνδωρε, δότειρα μελίφρονος ὄλβου, ὡς ἄρα δὴ τοῖς μὲν φωτῶν εὔοχθος ἐτύχθης, τοῖσι δὲ δύσβωλος καὶ τρηχεῖ, οἷς ἐχολώθης. VIII  Ναῦται ποντοπόροι, στυγερῇ ἐναλίγκιοι ἄτῃ πτωκάσιν αἰθυίῃσι, βίον δύσζηλον ἔχοντες, αἰδεῖσθε ξενίοιο Διὸς σέβας ὑψιμέδοντος· δεινὴ γὰρ μέτ’ ὄπις ξενίου Διός, ὅς κ’ ἀλίτηται. IX [2]  Ὑμέας, ὦ ξεῖνοι, ἄνεμος λάβεν ἀντίος ἐλθών· ἀλλ’ ἐμὲ νῦν δέξασθε, καὶ ὁ πλόος ἔσσεται ὑμῖν. X  Ἄλλη τίς σευ πεύκη ἀμείνονα καρπὸν ἵησιν Ἴδης ἐν κορυφῇσι πολυπτύχου ἠνεμοέσσης, ἔνθα σίδηρος Ἄρηος ἐπιχθονίοισι βροτοῖσιν ἔσσεται, εὖτ’ ἄν μιν Κεβρήνιοι ἄνδρες ἔχωσι. XI  Γλαῦκε, βοτῶν[3] ἐπίοπτα, ἔπος τί τοι ἐν φρεσὶ θήσω· πρῶτον μὲν κυσὶ δεῖπνον ἐπ’ αὐλείῃσι θύρησι δοῦναι· τὼς γὰρ ἄμεινον· ὃ γὰρ καὶ πρῶτον ἀκούει ἀνδρὸς ἐπερχομένου καὶ ἐς ἕρκεα θηρὸς ἰόντος. XII  Κλῦθί μευ εὐχομένου, Κουροτρόφε, δὸς δὲ γυναῖκα τήνδε νέων μὲν ἀναίνεσθαι φιλότητα καὶ εὐνήν· ἣ δ’ ἐπιτερπέσθω πολιοκροτάφοισι γέρουσιν, ὧν ὥρη μὲν ἀπήμβλυνται, θυμὸς δὲ μενοινᾷ. XIII  Ἀνδρὸς μὲν στέφανος παῖδες, πύργοι δὲ πόληος, ἵπποι δ’ αὖ πεδίου κόσμος, νῆες δὲ θαλάσσης, χρήματα δ’ αὔξει οἶκον, ἀτὰρ γεραροὶ βασιλῆες ἥμενοι εἰν ἀγορῇ κόσμος λαοῖσιν[4] ὁρᾶσθαι· αἰθομένου δὲ πυρὸς γεραρώτερος οἶκος ἰδέσθαι 5 ἤματι χειμερίῳ, ὁπότ’ ἂν νίφῃσι Κρονίων. XIV  Εἰ μὲν δώσετε μισθὸν ἀείσω, ὦ κεραμῆες. δεῦρ, ἄγ, Ἀθηναίη καὶ ὑπέρσχεθε χεῖρα καμίνου. εὖ δὲ περανθεῖεν[5] κότυλοι καὶ πάντα κάναστρα φρυχθῆναί τε καλῶς καὶ τιμῆς ὦνον ἀρέσθαι, πολλὰ μὲν εἰν ἀγορῇ πωλεύμενα, πολλὰ δ’ ἀγυιαῖς, 5 πολλὰ δὲ κερδῆναι, ἡμῖν δὲ δή, ὥς σφιν ἀεῖσαι. ἢν δ’ ἐπ’ ἀναιδείην τρεφθέντες ψεύδε’ ἄρησθε, συγκαλέω δὴ ἔπειτα καμίνων δηλητῆρας, Σύντριβ’ ὁμῶς Σμάραγόν τε καὶ Ἄσβετον ἠδὲ Σαβάκτην Ὠμόδαμόν τ, ὃς τῇδε τέχνῃ κακὰ πολλὰ πορίζοι· 10 πέρθε πυραίθουσαν καὶ δώματα, σὺν δὲ κάμινος πᾶσα κυκηθείη κεραμέων μέγα κωκυσάντων. ὡς γνάθος ἱππείη βρύκει, βρύκοι δὲ κάμινος, πάντ’ ἔντοσθ’ αὐτῆς κεραμήια λεπτὰ ποιοῦσα. δεῦρο καὶ Ἠελίου θύγατερ, πολυφάρμακε Κίρκη, 15 ἄγρια φάρμακα βάλλε, κάκου δ’ αὐτούς τε καὶ ἔργα. δεῦρο δὲ καὶ Χείρων ἀγέτω πολέας Κενταύρους, οἵθ’ Ἡρακλῆος χεῖρας φύγον οἵτ’ ἀπόλοντο, τύπτοιεν τάδε ἔργα κακῶς, πίπτοι δὲ κάμινος· αὐτοὶ δ’ οἰμώζοντες ὁρῴατο ἔργα πονηρά. 20 γηθήσω δ’ ὁρόων αὐτῶν κακοδαίμονα τέχνην· ὃς δέ χ’ ὑπερκύψῃ, πυρὶ τούτου πᾶν τὸ πρόσωπον φλεχθείη, ὡς πάντες ἐπίστωντ’ αἴσιμα ῥέζειν. XV  Δῶμα προσετραπόμεσθ’ ἀνδρὸς μέγα δυναμένοιο, ὃς μέγα μὲν δύναται, μέγα δὲ πρέπει[6] ὄλβιος αἰεί. αὐταὶ ἀνακλίνεσθε θύραι· Πλοῦτος γὰρ ἔσεισι πολλός, σὺν Πλούτῳ δὲ καὶ Εὐφροσύνη τεθαλυῖα Εἰρήνη τ’ ἀγαθή· ὅσα δ’ ἄγγεα, μεστὰ μὲν εἴη, 5 κυρβαίν δ’ αἰεὶ κατὰ καρδόπου ἕρποι μᾶζα. νῦν μὲν κριθαίην, εὐώπιδα, σησαμόεσσα    *     *     *     *  Τοῦ παιδὸς δὲ γυνὴ κατὰ δίφραδα βήσεται ὕμμιν· ἡμίονοι δ’ ἄξουσι κραταίποδες ἐς τόδε δῶμα· αὐτὴ δ’ ἱστὸν ὑφαίνοι ἐπ’ ἠλέκτρῳ βεβαυῖα. 10  Νεῦμαί τοι, νεῦμαι ἐνιαύσιος, ὥστε χελιδὼν ἕστηκ’ ἐν προθύροις ψιλὴ πόδας· ἀλλὰ φέρ’ αἶψα †πέρσαι τῶ Ἀπόλλωνος γυιάτιδος.† XVI  Εἰ μέν τι δώσεις· εἰ δὲ μή, οὐχ ἑστήξομεν· οὐ γὰρ συνοικήσοντες ἐνθάδ’ ἤλθομεν. XVII ΟΜΗΡΟΣ Ἄνδρες ἄγρης ἁλίης[7] θηρήτορες, ἦ ῥ’ ἔχομέν τι; ΑΛΙΕΙΣ Ὅσσ’ ἕλομεν, λιπόμεσθ· ὅσα δ’ οὐχ ἕλομεν φερόμεσθα. ΟΜΗΡΟΣ Τοίων γὰρ πατέρων ἐξ αἵματος ἐκγεγάασθε, οὔτε βαθυκλήρων οὔτ’ ἄσπετα μῆλα νεμόντων.

HOMER'S EPIGRAMS[8] I Have reverence for him who needs a home and stranger's dole, all ye who dwell in the high city of Cyme, the lovely maiden, hard by the foothills of lofty Sardene, ye who drink the heavenly water of the divine stream, eddying Hermus, whom deathless Zeus begot. II Speedily may my feet bear me to some town of righteous men; for their hearts are generous and their wit is best. III I am a maiden of bronze and am set upon the tomb of Midas. While the waters flow and tall trees flourish, and the sun rises and shines and the bright moon also; while rivers run and the sea breaks on the shore, ever remaining on this mournful tomb, I tell the passer-by that Midas here lies buried. IV To what a fate did Zeus the Father give me a prey even while he made me to grow, a babe at my mother's knees! By the will of Zeus who holds the aegis the people of Phricon, riders on wanton horses, more active than racing fire in the test of war, once built the towers of Aeolian Smyrna, wave-shaken neighbour to the sea, through which glides the pleasant stream of sacred Meles; thence[9] arose the daughters of Zeus, glorious children, and would fain have made famous that fair country and the city of its people. But in their folly those men scorned the divine voice and renown of song, and in trouble shall one of them remember this hereafter—he who with scornful words to them[10] contrived my fate. Yet I will endure the lot which heaven gave me even at my birth, bearing my disappointment with a patient heart. My dear limbs yearn not to stay in the sacred streets of Cyme, but rather my great heart urges me to go unto another country, small though I am. V Thestorides, full many things there are that mortals cannot sound: but there is nothing more unfathomable than the heart of man. VI Hear me, Poseidon, strong shaker of the earth, ruler of wide-spread, tawny Helicon! Give a fair wind and sight of safe return to the shipmen who speed and govern this ship. And grant that when 1 come to the nether slopes of towering Mimas I may find honourable, god-fearing men. Also may I avenge me on the wretch who deceived me and grieved Zeus the lord of guests and his own guest-table. VII Queen Earth, all bounteous giver of honey-hearted wealth, how kindly, it seems, you are to some, and how intractable and rough for those with whom you are angry. VIII Sailors, who rove the seas and whom a hateful fate has made as the shy sea-fowl, living an unenviable life, observe the reverence due to Zeus who rules on high, the god of strangers; for terrible is the vengeance of this god afterwards for whosoever has sinned. IX Strangers, a contrary wind has caught you: but even now take me aboard and you shall make your voyage. X Another sort of pine shall bear a better fruit[11] than you upon the heights of furrowed, windy Ida. For there shall mortal men get the iron that Ares loves, so soon as the Cebrenians shall hold the land. XI Glaucus, watchman of flocks, a word will I put in your heart. First give the dogs their dinner at the courtyard gate, for this is well. The dog first hears a man approaching and the wild-beast coming to the fence. XII Goddess-nurse of the young,[12] give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embrace of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire. XIII Children are a man's crown, towers of a city; horses are the glory of a plain, and so are ships of the sea; wealth will make a house great, and reverend princes seated in assembly are a goodly sight for the folk to see. But a blazing fire makes a house look more comely upon a winter's day, when the Son of Cronos sends down snow. XIV Potters, if you will give me a reward, I will sing for you. Come, then, Athena, with hand upraised[13] over the kiln. Let the pots and all the dishes turn out well and be well fired: let them fetch good prices and be sold in plenty in the market, and plenty in the streets. Grant that the potters may get great gain and grant me so to sing to them. But if you turn shameless and make false promises, then I call together the destroyers of kilns, Shatter and Smash and Charr and Crash and Crudebake who can work this craft much mischief. Come all of you and sack the kiln-yard and the buildings: let the whole kiln be shaken up to the potter's loud lament. As a horse's jaw grinds, so let the kiln grind to powder all the pots inside. And you, too, daughter of the Sun, Circe the witch, come and cast cruel spells; hurt both these men and their handiwork. Let Chiron also come and bring many Centaurs—all that escaped the hands of Heracles and all that were destroyed: let them make sad havoc of the pots and overthrow the kiln, and let the potters see the mischief and be grieved; but I will gloat as I behold their luckless craft. And if anyone of them stoops to peer in, let all his face be burned up, that all men may learn to deal honestly. XV[14] Let us betake us to the house of some man of great power,—one who bears great power and is greatly prosperous always. Open of yourselves, you doors, for mighty Wealth will enter in, and with Wealth comes jolly Mirth and gentle Peace. May all the corn-bins be full and the mass of dough always overflow the kneading-trough. Now (set before us) cheerful barley-pottage, full of sesame... Your son's wife, driving to this house with strong-hoofed mules, shall dismount from her carriage to greet you; may she be shod with golden shoes as she stands weaving at the loom. I come, and I come yearly, like the swallow that perches light-footed in the fore-part of your house. But quickly bring... XVI If you will give us anything (well). But if not, we will not wait, for we are not come here to dwell with you. XVII HOMER Hunters of deep sea prey, have we caught anything? FISHERMEN All that we caught we left behind, and all that we did not catch we carry home.[15] HOMER Ay, for of such fathers you are sprung as neither hold rich lands nor tend countless sheep.

1. Plato, Diogenes, Contest of Homer: ῥόῃ, pseudo-Herodotus.
2. Restored to metrical form by Barnes.
3. Kuester : πέπον, βροτῶν, MSS.
4. Ruhnken : τ’ ἄλλοισιν, Sources : The Contest of Homer adds the verse : λαὸς δ’ εἰν ἀγορῆσι καθήμενος εἰσοράασθαι.
5. Pollux : μελανθοῖεν, μελανθεῖεν, Life of Homer.
6. Ilgen : βρεμει, MSS.
7. Koechly : ἀπ’ Ἀρκαδίης, MSS.
8. The Epigrams are preserved in the pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer. Nos. III, XIII, and XVII are also found in the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, and No. I is also extant at the end of some MSS. of the Homeric Hymns.
9. sc. from Smyrna, Homer's reputed birth-place.
10. The councillors of Cyme who refused to support Homer at the public expense.
11. The "better fruit" is apparently the iron smelted out in fires of pine-wood.
12. Hecate: cp. Hesiod, Theogony, 450.
13. i.e. in protection.
14. This song is called by pseudo-Herodotus Εἰρησιώνη. The word properly indicates a garland wound with wool which was worn at harvest-festivals, but came to be applied first to the harvest song and then to any begging song. The present is akin to the Swallow-Song (Χελιδόνισμα), sung at the beginning of spring, and answering to the still surviving English May-Day songs. Cp. Athenaeus, viii. 360 b.
15. The lice which they caught in their clothes they left behind, but carried home in their clothes those which they could not catch.

What need to add only the header on the top of any page? Francois-Pier (talk) 23:56, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Is there any template to display the header, without any page? Francois-Pier (talk) 00:07, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Not sure about the header - but I think every page should have one. But - how about this? I've added a header template to the top spanning both columns.

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ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΕΠΙΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ I  Αἰδεῖσθε ξενίων κεχρημένον ἠδὲ δόμοιο, οἳ πόλιν αἰπεινήν, Κύμην ἐριώπιδα κούρην, ναίετε, Σαρδήνης πόδα νείατον ὑψικόμοιο, ἀμβρόσιον πίνοντες ὕδωρ θείου ποταμοῖο, Ἕρμου δινήεντος, ὃν ἀθάνατος τέκετο Ζεύς. 5 II  Αἶψα πόδες με φέροιεν ἐς αἰδοίων πόλιν ἀνδρῶν· τῶν γὰρ καὶ θυμὸς πρόφρων καὶ μῆτις ἀρίστη. III  Χαλκέη παρθένος εἰμί, Μίδεω δ’ ἐπὶ σήματι κεῖμαι· ἔστ’ ἂν ὕδωρ τε νάῃ[1] καὶ δένδρεα μακρὰ τεθήλῃ, ἠέλιος τ’ ἀνιὼν λάμπῃ λαμπρά τε σελήνη, καὶ ποταμοί γε ῥέωσιν ἀνακλύζῃ δὲ θάλασσα, αὐτοῦ τῇδε μένουσα πολυκλαύτου ἐπὶ τύμβου 5 ἀγγελέω παριοῦσι, Μίδης ὅτι τῇδε τέθαπται. IV  Οἵῃ μ’ αἴσῃ δῶκε πατὴρ Ζεὺς κύρμα γενέσθαι, νήπιον αἰδοίης ἐπὶ γούνασι μητρὸς ἀτάλλων. ἥν ποτ’ ἐπύργωσαν βουλῇ Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο λαοὶ Φρίκωνος, μάργων ἐπιβήτορες ἵππων, ὁπλότεροι μαλεροῖο πυρὸς κρίνοντες Ἄρηα, 5 Αἰολίδα Σμύρνην ἁλιγείτονα, ποντοτίνακτον, ἥντε δι’ ἀγλαὸν εἶσιν ὕδωρ ἱεροῖο Μέλητος· ἔνθεν ἀπορνύμεναι κοῦραι Διός, ἀγλαὰ τέκνα. ἠθελέτην κλῇσαι δῖαν χθόνα καὶ πόλιν ἀνδρῶν. οἳ δ’ ἀπανηνάσθην ἱερὴν ὄπα, φῆμιν ἀοιδῆς, 10 ἀφραδίῃ· τῶν μέν τε παθών τις φράσσεται αὖτις, ὅς σφιν ὀνείδεσσιν τὸν ἐμὸν διεμήσατο πότμον. κῆρα δ’ ἐγώ, τήν μοι θεὸς ὤπασε γεινομένῳ περ, τλήσομαι ἀκράαντα φέρων τετληότι θυμῷ· οὐδέ τί μοι φίλα γυῖα μένειν ἱεραῖς ἐν ἀγυιαῖς 15 Κύμης ὁρμαίνουσι, μέγας δέ με θυμὸς ἐπείγει δῆμον ἐς ἀλλοδαπῶν ἰέναι, ὀλίγον περ ἐόντα. V  Θεστορίδη, θνητοῖσιν ἀνωίστων πολέων περ, οὐδὲν ἀφραστότερον πέλεται νόου ἀνθρώποισιν. VI  Κλῦθι, Ποσείδαον, μεγαλοσθενές, ἐννοσίγαιε, εὐρυχόρου μεδέων ἠδὲ ξανθοῦ Ἑλικῶνος, δὸς δ’ οὖρον καλὸν καὶ ἀπήμονα νόστον ἰδέσθαι ναύταις, οἳ νηὸς πομποὶ ἠδ’ ἀρχοὶ ἔασι· δὸς δ’ ἐς ὑπωρείην ὑψικρήμνοιο Μίμαντος 5 αἰδοίων μ’ ἐλθόντα βροτῶν ὁσίων τε κυρῆσαι, φῶτά τε τισαίμην, ὃς ἐμὸν νόον ἠπεροπεύσας ὠδύσατο Ζῆνα ξένιον ξενίην τε τράπεζαν. VII  Πότνια Γῆ, πάνδωρε, δότειρα μελίφρονος ὄλβου, ὡς ἄρα δὴ τοῖς μὲν φωτῶν εὔοχθος ἐτύχθης, τοῖσι δὲ δύσβωλος καὶ τρηχεῖ, οἷς ἐχολώθης. VIII  Ναῦται ποντοπόροι, στυγερῇ ἐναλίγκιοι ἄτῃ πτωκάσιν αἰθυίῃσι, βίον δύσζηλον ἔχοντες, αἰδεῖσθε ξενίοιο Διὸς σέβας ὑψιμέδοντος· δεινὴ γὰρ μέτ’ ὄπις ξενίου Διός, ὅς κ’ ἀλίτηται. IX [2]  Ὑμέας, ὦ ξεῖνοι, ἄνεμος λάβεν ἀντίος ἐλθών· ἀλλ’ ἐμὲ νῦν δέξασθε, καὶ ὁ πλόος ἔσσεται ὑμῖν. X  Ἄλλη τίς σευ πεύκη ἀμείνονα καρπὸν ἵησιν Ἴδης ἐν κορυφῇσι πολυπτύχου ἠνεμοέσσης, ἔνθα σίδηρος Ἄρηος ἐπιχθονίοισι βροτοῖσιν ἔσσεται, εὖτ’ ἄν μιν Κεβρήνιοι ἄνδρες ἔχωσι. XI  Γλαῦκε, βοτῶν[3] ἐπίοπτα, ἔπος τί τοι ἐν φρεσὶ θήσω· πρῶτον μὲν κυσὶ δεῖπνον ἐπ’ αὐλείῃσι θύρησι δοῦναι· τὼς γὰρ ἄμεινον· ὃ γὰρ καὶ πρῶτον ἀκούει ἀνδρὸς ἐπερχομένου καὶ ἐς ἕρκεα θηρὸς ἰόντος. XII  Κλῦθί μευ εὐχομένου, Κουροτρόφε, δὸς δὲ γυναῖκα τήνδε νέων μὲν ἀναίνεσθαι φιλότητα καὶ εὐνήν· ἣ δ’ ἐπιτερπέσθω πολιοκροτάφοισι γέρουσιν, ὧν ὥρη μὲν ἀπήμβλυνται, θυμὸς δὲ μενοινᾷ. XIII  Ἀνδρὸς μὲν στέφανος παῖδες, πύργοι δὲ πόληος, ἵπποι δ’ αὖ πεδίου κόσμος, νῆες δὲ θαλάσσης, χρήματα δ’ αὔξει οἶκον, ἀτὰρ γεραροὶ βασιλῆες ἥμενοι εἰν ἀγορῇ κόσμος λαοῖσιν[4] ὁρᾶσθαι· αἰθομένου δὲ πυρὸς γεραρώτερος οἶκος ἰδέσθαι 5 ἤματι χειμερίῳ, ὁπότ’ ἂν νίφῃσι Κρονίων. XIV  Εἰ μὲν δώσετε μισθὸν ἀείσω, ὦ κεραμῆες. δεῦρ, ἄγ, Ἀθηναίη καὶ ὑπέρσχεθε χεῖρα καμίνου. εὖ δὲ περανθεῖεν[5] κότυλοι καὶ πάντα κάναστρα φρυχθῆναί τε καλῶς καὶ τιμῆς ὦνον ἀρέσθαι, πολλὰ μὲν εἰν ἀγορῇ πωλεύμενα, πολλὰ δ’ ἀγυιαῖς, 5 πολλὰ δὲ κερδῆναι, ἡμῖν δὲ δή, ὥς σφιν ἀεῖσαι. ἢν δ’ ἐπ’ ἀναιδείην τρεφθέντες ψεύδε’ ἄρησθε, συγκαλέω δὴ ἔπειτα καμίνων δηλητῆρας, Σύντριβ’ ὁμῶς Σμάραγόν τε καὶ Ἄσβετον ἠδὲ Σαβάκτην Ὠμόδαμόν τ, ὃς τῇδε τέχνῃ κακὰ πολλὰ πορίζοι· 10 πέρθε πυραίθουσαν καὶ δώματα, σὺν δὲ κάμινος πᾶσα κυκηθείη κεραμέων μέγα κωκυσάντων. ὡς γνάθος ἱππείη βρύκει, βρύκοι δὲ κάμινος, πάντ’ ἔντοσθ’ αὐτῆς κεραμήια λεπτὰ ποιοῦσα. δεῦρο καὶ Ἠελίου θύγατερ, πολυφάρμακε Κίρκη, 15 ἄγρια φάρμακα βάλλε, κάκου δ’ αὐτούς τε καὶ ἔργα. δεῦρο δὲ καὶ Χείρων ἀγέτω πολέας Κενταύρους, οἵθ’ Ἡρακλῆος χεῖρας φύγον οἵτ’ ἀπόλοντο, τύπτοιεν τάδε ἔργα κακῶς, πίπτοι δὲ κάμινος· αὐτοὶ δ’ οἰμώζοντες ὁρῴατο ἔργα πονηρά. 20 γηθήσω δ’ ὁρόων αὐτῶν κακοδαίμονα τέχνην· ὃς δέ χ’ ὑπερκύψῃ, πυρὶ τούτου πᾶν τὸ πρόσωπον φλεχθείη, ὡς πάντες ἐπίστωντ’ αἴσιμα ῥέζειν. XV  Δῶμα προσετραπόμεσθ’ ἀνδρὸς μέγα δυναμένοιο, ὃς μέγα μὲν δύναται, μέγα δὲ πρέπει[6] ὄλβιος αἰεί. αὐταὶ ἀνακλίνεσθε θύραι· Πλοῦτος γὰρ ἔσεισι πολλός, σὺν Πλούτῳ δὲ καὶ Εὐφροσύνη τεθαλυῖα Εἰρήνη τ’ ἀγαθή· ὅσα δ’ ἄγγεα, μεστὰ μὲν εἴη, 5 κυρβαίν δ’ αἰεὶ κατὰ καρδόπου ἕρποι μᾶζα. νῦν μὲν κριθαίην, εὐώπιδα, σησαμόεσσα    *     *     *     *  Τοῦ παιδὸς δὲ γυνὴ κατὰ δίφραδα βήσεται ὕμμιν· ἡμίονοι δ’ ἄξουσι κραταίποδες ἐς τόδε δῶμα· αὐτὴ δ’ ἱστὸν ὑφαίνοι ἐπ’ ἠλέκτρῳ βεβαυῖα. 10  Νεῦμαί τοι, νεῦμαι ἐνιαύσιος, ὥστε χελιδὼν ἕστηκ’ ἐν προθύροις ψιλὴ πόδας· ἀλλὰ φέρ’ αἶψα †πέρσαι τῶ Ἀπόλλωνος γυιάτιδος.† XVI  Εἰ μέν τι δώσεις· εἰ δὲ μή, οὐχ ἑστήξομεν· οὐ γὰρ συνοικήσοντες ἐνθάδ’ ἤλθομεν. XVII ΟΜΗΡΟΣ Ἄνδρες ἄγρης ἁλίης[7] θηρήτορες, ἦ ῥ’ ἔχομέν τι; ΑΛΙΕΙΣ Ὅσσ’ ἕλομεν, λιπόμεσθ· ὅσα δ’ οὐχ ἕλομεν φερόμεσθα. ΟΜΗΡΟΣ Τοίων γὰρ πατέρων ἐξ αἵματος ἐκγεγάασθε, οὔτε βαθυκλήρων οὔτ’ ἄσπετα μῆλα νεμόντων.

HOMER'S EPIGRAMS[8] I Have reverence for him who needs a home and stranger's dole, all ye who dwell in the high city of Cyme, the lovely maiden, hard by the foothills of lofty Sardene, ye who drink the heavenly water of the divine stream, eddying Hermus, whom deathless Zeus begot. II Speedily may my feet bear me to some town of righteous men; for their hearts are generous and their wit is best. III I am a maiden of bronze and am set upon the tomb of Midas. While the waters flow and tall trees flourish, and the sun rises and shines and the bright moon also; while rivers run and the sea breaks on the shore, ever remaining on this mournful tomb, I tell the passer-by that Midas here lies buried. IV To what a fate did Zeus the Father give me a prey even while he made me to grow, a babe at my mother's knees! By the will of Zeus who holds the aegis the people of Phricon, riders on wanton horses, more active than racing fire in the test of war, once built the towers of Aeolian Smyrna, wave-shaken neighbour to the sea, through which glides the pleasant stream of sacred Meles; thence[9] arose the daughters of Zeus, glorious children, and would fain have made famous that fair country and the city of its people. But in their folly those men scorned the divine voice and renown of song, and in trouble shall one of them remember this hereafter—he who with scornful words to them[10] contrived my fate. Yet I will endure the lot which heaven gave me even at my birth, bearing my disappointment with a patient heart. My dear limbs yearn not to stay in the sacred streets of Cyme, but rather my great heart urges me to go unto another country, small though I am. V Thestorides, full many things there are that mortals cannot sound: but there is nothing more unfathomable than the heart of man. VI Hear me, Poseidon, strong shaker of the earth, ruler of wide-spread, tawny Helicon! Give a fair wind and sight of safe return to the shipmen who speed and govern this ship. And grant that when 1 come to the nether slopes of towering Mimas I may find honourable, god-fearing men. Also may I avenge me on the wretch who deceived me and grieved Zeus the lord of guests and his own guest-table. VII Queen Earth, all bounteous giver of honey-hearted wealth, how kindly, it seems, you are to some, and how intractable and rough for those with whom you are angry. VIII Sailors, who rove the seas and whom a hateful fate has made as the shy sea-fowl, living an unenviable life, observe the reverence due to Zeus who rules on high, the god of strangers; for terrible is the vengeance of this god afterwards for whosoever has sinned. IX Strangers, a contrary wind has caught you: but even now take me aboard and you shall make your voyage. X Another sort of pine shall bear a better fruit[11] than you upon the heights of furrowed, windy Ida. For there shall mortal men get the iron that Ares loves, so soon as the Cebrenians shall hold the land. XI Glaucus, watchman of flocks, a word will I put in your heart. First give the dogs their dinner at the courtyard gate, for this is well. The dog first hears a man approaching and the wild-beast coming to the fence. XII Goddess-nurse of the young,[12] give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embrace of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire. XIII Children are a man's crown, towers of a city; horses are the glory of a plain, and so are ships of the sea; wealth will make a house great, and reverend princes seated in assembly are a goodly sight for the folk to see. But a blazing fire makes a house look more comely upon a winter's day, when the Son of Cronos sends down snow. XIV Potters, if you will give me a reward, I will sing for you. Come, then, Athena, with hand upraised[13] over the kiln. Let the pots and all the dishes turn out well and be well fired: let them fetch good prices and be sold in plenty in the market, and plenty in the streets. Grant that the potters may get great gain and grant me so to sing to them. But if you turn shameless and make false promises, then I call together the destroyers of kilns, Shatter and Smash and Charr and Crash and Crudebake who can work this craft much mischief. Come all of you and sack the kiln-yard and the buildings: let the whole kiln be shaken up to the potter's loud lament. As a horse's jaw grinds, so let the kiln grind to powder all the pots inside. And you, too, daughter of the Sun, Circe the witch, come and cast cruel spells; hurt both these men and their handiwork. Let Chiron also come and bring many Centaurs—all that escaped the hands of Heracles and all that were destroyed: let them make sad havoc of the pots and overthrow the kiln, and let the potters see the mischief and be grieved; but I will gloat as I behold their luckless craft. And if anyone of them stoops to peer in, let all his face be burned up, that all men may learn to deal honestly. XV[14] Let us betake us to the house of some man of great power,—one who bears great power and is greatly prosperous always. Open of yourselves, you doors, for mighty Wealth will enter in, and with Wealth comes jolly Mirth and gentle Peace. May all the corn-bins be full and the mass of dough always overflow the kneading-trough. Now (set before us) cheerful barley-pottage, full of sesame... Your son's wife, driving to this house with strong-hoofed mules, shall dismount from her carriage to greet you; may she be shod with golden shoes as she stands weaving at the loom. I come, and I come yearly, like the swallow that perches light-footed in the fore-part of your house. But quickly bring... XVI If you will give us anything (well). But if not, we will not wait, for we are not come here to dwell with you. XVII HOMER Hunters of deep sea prey, have we caught anything? FISHERMEN All that we caught we left behind, and all that we did not catch we carry home.[15] HOMER Ay, for of such fathers you are sprung as neither hold rich lands nor tend countless sheep.

1. Plato, Diogenes, Contest of Homer: ῥόῃ, pseudo-Herodotus.
2. Restored to metrical form by Barnes.
3. Kuester : πέπον, βροτῶν, MSS.
4. Ruhnken : τ’ ἄλλοισιν, Sources : The Contest of Homer adds the verse : λαὸς δ’ εἰν ἀγορῆσι καθήμενος εἰσοράασθαι.
5. Pollux : μελανθοῖεν, μελανθεῖεν, Life of Homer.
6. Ilgen : βρεμει, MSS.
7. Koechly : ἀπ’ Ἀρκαδίης, MSS.
8. The Epigrams are preserved in the pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer. Nos. III, XIII, and XVII are also found in the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, and No. I is also extant at the end of some MSS. of the Homeric Hymns.
9. sc. from Smyrna, Homer's reputed birth-place.
10. The councillors of Cyme who refused to support Homer at the public expense.
11. The "better fruit" is apparently the iron smelted out in fires of pine-wood.
12. Hecate: cp. Hesiod, Theogony, 450.
13. i.e. in protection.
14. This song is called by pseudo-Herodotus Εἰρησιώνη. The word properly indicates a garland wound with wool which was worn at harvest-festivals, but came to be applied first to the harvest song and then to any begging song. The present is akin to the Swallow-Song (Χελιδόνισμα), sung at the beginning of spring, and answering to the still surviving English May-Day songs. Cp. Athenaeus, viii. 360 b.
15. The lice which they caught in their clothes they left behind, but carried home in their clothes those which they could not catch.

DivermanAU (talk) 00:21, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

@DivermanAU: It's OK, but missing the "New Haven: Harvard University Press, pages 467-477"

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ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΕΠΙΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ I  Αἰδεῖσθε ξενίων κεχρημένον ἠδὲ δόμοιο, οἳ πόλιν αἰπεινήν, Κύμην ἐριώπιδα κούρην, ναίετε, Σαρδήνης πόδα νείατον ὑψικόμοιο, ἀμβρόσιον πίνοντες ὕδωρ θείου ποταμοῖο, Ἕρμου δινήεντος, ὃν ἀθάνατος τέκετο Ζεύς. 5 II  Αἶψα πόδες με φέροιεν ἐς αἰδοίων πόλιν ἀνδρῶν· τῶν γὰρ καὶ θυμὸς πρόφρων καὶ μῆτις ἀρίστη. III  Χαλκέη παρθένος εἰμί, Μίδεω δ’ ἐπὶ σήματι κεῖμαι· ἔστ’ ἂν ὕδωρ τε νάῃ[1] καὶ δένδρεα μακρὰ τεθήλῃ, ἠέλιος τ’ ἀνιὼν λάμπῃ λαμπρά τε σελήνη, καὶ ποταμοί γε ῥέωσιν ἀνακλύζῃ δὲ θάλασσα, αὐτοῦ τῇδε μένουσα πολυκλαύτου ἐπὶ τύμβου 5 ἀγγελέω παριοῦσι, Μίδης ὅτι τῇδε τέθαπται. IV  Οἵῃ μ’ αἴσῃ δῶκε πατὴρ Ζεὺς κύρμα γενέσθαι, νήπιον αἰδοίης ἐπὶ γούνασι μητρὸς ἀτάλλων. ἥν ποτ’ ἐπύργωσαν βουλῇ Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο λαοὶ Φρίκωνος, μάργων ἐπιβήτορες ἵππων, ὁπλότεροι μαλεροῖο πυρὸς κρίνοντες Ἄρηα, 5 Αἰολίδα Σμύρνην ἁλιγείτονα, ποντοτίνακτον, ἥντε δι’ ἀγλαὸν εἶσιν ὕδωρ ἱεροῖο Μέλητος· ἔνθεν ἀπορνύμεναι κοῦραι Διός, ἀγλαὰ τέκνα. ἠθελέτην κλῇσαι δῖαν χθόνα καὶ πόλιν ἀνδρῶν. οἳ δ’ ἀπανηνάσθην ἱερὴν ὄπα, φῆμιν ἀοιδῆς, 10 ἀφραδίῃ· τῶν μέν τε παθών τις φράσσεται αὖτις, ὅς σφιν ὀνείδεσσιν τὸν ἐμὸν διεμήσατο πότμον. κῆρα δ’ ἐγώ, τήν μοι θεὸς ὤπασε γεινομένῳ περ, τλήσομαι ἀκράαντα φέρων τετληότι θυμῷ· οὐδέ τί μοι φίλα γυῖα μένειν ἱεραῖς ἐν ἀγυιαῖς 15 Κύμης ὁρμαίνουσι, μέγας δέ με θυμὸς ἐπείγει δῆμον ἐς ἀλλοδαπῶν ἰέναι, ὀλίγον περ ἐόντα. V  Θεστορίδη, θνητοῖσιν ἀνωίστων πολέων περ, οὐδὲν ἀφραστότερον πέλεται νόου ἀνθρώποισιν. VI  Κλῦθι, Ποσείδαον, μεγαλοσθενές, ἐννοσίγαιε, εὐρυχόρου μεδέων ἠδὲ ξανθοῦ Ἑλικῶνος, δὸς δ’ οὖρον καλὸν καὶ ἀπήμονα νόστον ἰδέσθαι ναύταις, οἳ νηὸς πομποὶ ἠδ’ ἀρχοὶ ἔασι· δὸς δ’ ἐς ὑπωρείην ὑψικρήμνοιο Μίμαντος 5 αἰδοίων μ’ ἐλθόντα βροτῶν ὁσίων τε κυρῆσαι, φῶτά τε τισαίμην, ὃς ἐμὸν νόον ἠπεροπεύσας ὠδύσατο Ζῆνα ξένιον ξενίην τε τράπεζαν. VII  Πότνια Γῆ, πάνδωρε, δότειρα μελίφρονος ὄλβου, ὡς ἄρα δὴ τοῖς μὲν φωτῶν εὔοχθος ἐτύχθης, τοῖσι δὲ δύσβωλος καὶ τρηχεῖ, οἷς ἐχολώθης. VIII  Ναῦται ποντοπόροι, στυγερῇ ἐναλίγκιοι ἄτῃ πτωκάσιν αἰθυίῃσι, βίον δύσζηλον ἔχοντες, αἰδεῖσθε ξενίοιο Διὸς σέβας ὑψιμέδοντος· δεινὴ γὰρ μέτ’ ὄπις ξενίου Διός, ὅς κ’ ἀλίτηται. IX [2]  Ὑμέας, ὦ ξεῖνοι, ἄνεμος λάβεν ἀντίος ἐλθών· ἀλλ’ ἐμὲ νῦν δέξασθε, καὶ ὁ πλόος ἔσσεται ὑμῖν. X  Ἄλλη τίς σευ πεύκη ἀμείνονα καρπὸν ἵησιν Ἴδης ἐν κορυφῇσι πολυπτύχου ἠνεμοέσσης, ἔνθα σίδηρος Ἄρηος ἐπιχθονίοισι βροτοῖσιν ἔσσεται, εὖτ’ ἄν μιν Κεβρήνιοι ἄνδρες ἔχωσι. XI  Γλαῦκε, βοτῶν[3] ἐπίοπτα, ἔπος τί τοι ἐν φρεσὶ θήσω· πρῶτον μὲν κυσὶ δεῖπνον ἐπ’ αὐλείῃσι θύρησι δοῦναι· τὼς γὰρ ἄμεινον· ὃ γὰρ καὶ πρῶτον ἀκούει ἀνδρὸς ἐπερχομένου καὶ ἐς ἕρκεα θηρὸς ἰόντος. XII  Κλῦθί μευ εὐχομένου, Κουροτρόφε, δὸς δὲ γυναῖκα τήνδε νέων μὲν ἀναίνεσθαι φιλότητα καὶ εὐνήν· ἣ δ’ ἐπιτερπέσθω πολιοκροτάφοισι γέρουσιν, ὧν ὥρη μὲν ἀπήμβλυνται, θυμὸς δὲ μενοινᾷ. XIII  Ἀνδρὸς μὲν στέφανος παῖδες, πύργοι δὲ πόληος, ἵπποι δ’ αὖ πεδίου κόσμος, νῆες δὲ θαλάσσης, χρήματα δ’ αὔξει οἶκον, ἀτὰρ γεραροὶ βασιλῆες ἥμενοι εἰν ἀγορῇ κόσμος λαοῖσιν[4] ὁρᾶσθαι· αἰθομένου δὲ πυρὸς γεραρώτερος οἶκος ἰδέσθαι 5 ἤματι χειμερίῳ, ὁπότ’ ἂν νίφῃσι Κρονίων. XIV  Εἰ μὲν δώσετε μισθὸν ἀείσω, ὦ κεραμῆες. δεῦρ, ἄγ, Ἀθηναίη καὶ ὑπέρσχεθε χεῖρα καμίνου. εὖ δὲ περανθεῖεν[5] κότυλοι καὶ πάντα κάναστρα φρυχθῆναί τε καλῶς καὶ τιμῆς ὦνον ἀρέσθαι, πολλὰ μὲν εἰν ἀγορῇ πωλεύμενα, πολλὰ δ’ ἀγυιαῖς, 5 πολλὰ δὲ κερδῆναι, ἡμῖν δὲ δή, ὥς σφιν ἀεῖσαι. ἢν δ’ ἐπ’ ἀναιδείην τρεφθέντες ψεύδε’ ἄρησθε, συγκαλέω δὴ ἔπειτα καμίνων δηλητῆρας, Σύντριβ’ ὁμῶς Σμάραγόν τε καὶ Ἄσβετον ἠδὲ Σαβάκτην Ὠμόδαμόν τ, ὃς τῇδε τέχνῃ κακὰ πολλὰ πορίζοι· 10 πέρθε πυραίθουσαν καὶ δώματα, σὺν δὲ κάμινος πᾶσα κυκηθείη κεραμέων μέγα κωκυσάντων. ὡς γνάθος ἱππείη βρύκει, βρύκοι δὲ κάμινος, πάντ’ ἔντοσθ’ αὐτῆς κεραμήια λεπτὰ ποιοῦσα. δεῦρο καὶ Ἠελίου θύγατερ, πολυφάρμακε Κίρκη, 15 ἄγρια φάρμακα βάλλε, κάκου δ’ αὐτούς τε καὶ ἔργα. δεῦρο δὲ καὶ Χείρων ἀγέτω πολέας Κενταύρους, οἵθ’ Ἡρακλῆος χεῖρας φύγον οἵτ’ ἀπόλοντο, τύπτοιεν τάδε ἔργα κακῶς, πίπτοι δὲ κάμινος· αὐτοὶ δ’ οἰμώζοντες ὁρῴατο ἔργα πονηρά. 20 γηθήσω δ’ ὁρόων αὐτῶν κακοδαίμονα τέχνην· ὃς δέ χ’ ὑπερκύψῃ, πυρὶ τούτου πᾶν τὸ πρόσωπον φλεχθείη, ὡς πάντες ἐπίστωντ’ αἴσιμα ῥέζειν. XV  Δῶμα προσετραπόμεσθ’ ἀνδρὸς μέγα δυναμένοιο, ὃς μέγα μὲν δύναται, μέγα δὲ πρέπει[6] ὄλβιος αἰεί. αὐταὶ ἀνακλίνεσθε θύραι· Πλοῦτος γὰρ ἔσεισι πολλός, σὺν Πλούτῳ δὲ καὶ Εὐφροσύνη τεθαλυῖα Εἰρήνη τ’ ἀγαθή· ὅσα δ’ ἄγγεα, μεστὰ μὲν εἴη, 5 κυρβαίν δ’ αἰεὶ κατὰ καρδόπου ἕρποι μᾶζα. νῦν μὲν κριθαίην, εὐώπιδα, σησαμόεσσα    *     *     *     *  Τοῦ παιδὸς δὲ γυνὴ κατὰ δίφραδα βήσεται ὕμμιν· ἡμίονοι δ’ ἄξουσι κραταίποδες ἐς τόδε δῶμα· αὐτὴ δ’ ἱστὸν ὑφαίνοι ἐπ’ ἠλέκτρῳ βεβαυῖα. 10  Νεῦμαί τοι, νεῦμαι ἐνιαύσιος, ὥστε χελιδὼν ἕστηκ’ ἐν προθύροις ψιλὴ πόδας· ἀλλὰ φέρ’ αἶψα †πέρσαι τῶ Ἀπόλλωνος γυιάτιδος.† XVI  Εἰ μέν τι δώσεις· εἰ δὲ μή, οὐχ ἑστήξομεν· οὐ γὰρ συνοικήσοντες ἐνθάδ’ ἤλθομεν. XVII ΟΜΗΡΟΣ Ἄνδρες ἄγρης ἁλίης[7] θηρήτορες, ἦ ῥ’ ἔχομέν τι; ΑΛΙΕΙΣ Ὅσσ’ ἕλομεν, λιπόμεσθ· ὅσα δ’ οὐχ ἕλομεν φερόμεσθα. ΟΜΗΡΟΣ Τοίων γὰρ πατέρων ἐξ αἵματος ἐκγεγάασθε, οὔτε βαθυκλήρων οὔτ’ ἄσπετα μῆλα νεμόντων.

HOMER'S EPIGRAMS[8] I Have reverence for him who needs a home and stranger's dole, all ye who dwell in the high city of Cyme, the lovely maiden, hard by the foothills of lofty Sardene, ye who drink the heavenly water of the divine stream, eddying Hermus, whom deathless Zeus begot. II Speedily may my feet bear me to some town of righteous men; for their hearts are generous and their wit is best. III I am a maiden of bronze and am set upon the tomb of Midas. While the waters flow and tall trees flourish, and the sun rises and shines and the bright moon also; while rivers run and the sea breaks on the shore, ever remaining on this mournful tomb, I tell the passer-by that Midas here lies buried. IV To what a fate did Zeus the Father give me a prey even while he made me to grow, a babe at my mother's knees! By the will of Zeus who holds the aegis the people of Phricon, riders on wanton horses, more active than racing fire in the test of war, once built the towers of Aeolian Smyrna, wave-shaken neighbour to the sea, through which glides the pleasant stream of sacred Meles; thence[9] arose the daughters of Zeus, glorious children, and would fain have made famous that fair country and the city of its people. But in their folly those men scorned the divine voice and renown of song, and in trouble shall one of them remember this hereafter—he who with scornful words to them[10] contrived my fate. Yet I will endure the lot which heaven gave me even at my birth, bearing my disappointment with a patient heart. My dear limbs yearn not to stay in the sacred streets of Cyme, but rather my great heart urges me to go unto another country, small though I am. V Thestorides, full many things there are that mortals cannot sound: but there is nothing more unfathomable than the heart of man. VI Hear me, Poseidon, strong shaker of the earth, ruler of wide-spread, tawny Helicon! Give a fair wind and sight of safe return to the shipmen who speed and govern this ship. And grant that when 1 come to the nether slopes of towering Mimas I may find honourable, god-fearing men. Also may I avenge me on the wretch who deceived me and grieved Zeus the lord of guests and his own guest-table. VII Queen Earth, all bounteous giver of honey-hearted wealth, how kindly, it seems, you are to some, and how intractable and rough for those with whom you are angry. VIII Sailors, who rove the seas and whom a hateful fate has made as the shy sea-fowl, living an unenviable life, observe the reverence due to Zeus who rules on high, the god of strangers; for terrible is the vengeance of this god afterwards for whosoever has sinned. IX Strangers, a contrary wind has caught you: but even now take me aboard and you shall make your voyage. X Another sort of pine shall bear a better fruit[11] than you upon the heights of furrowed, windy Ida. For there shall mortal men get the iron that Ares loves, so soon as the Cebrenians shall hold the land. XI Glaucus, watchman of flocks, a word will I put in your heart. First give the dogs their dinner at the courtyard gate, for this is well. The dog first hears a man approaching and the wild-beast coming to the fence. XII Goddess-nurse of the young,[12] give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embrace of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire. XIII Children are a man's crown, towers of a city; horses are the glory of a plain, and so are ships of the sea; wealth will make a house great, and reverend princes seated in assembly are a goodly sight for the folk to see. But a blazing fire makes a house look more comely upon a winter's day, when the Son of Cronos sends down snow. XIV Potters, if you will give me a reward, I will sing for you. Come, then, Athena, with hand upraised[13] over the kiln. Let the pots and all the dishes turn out well and be well fired: let them fetch good prices and be sold in plenty in the market, and plenty in the streets. Grant that the potters may get great gain and grant me so to sing to them. But if you turn shameless and make false promises, then I call together the destroyers of kilns, Shatter and Smash and Charr and Crash and Crudebake who can work this craft much mischief. Come all of you and sack the kiln-yard and the buildings: let the whole kiln be shaken up to the potter's loud lament. As a horse's jaw grinds, so let the kiln grind to powder all the pots inside. And you, too, daughter of the Sun, Circe the witch, come and cast cruel spells; hurt both these men and their handiwork. Let Chiron also come and bring many Centaurs—all that escaped the hands of Heracles and all that were destroyed: let them make sad havoc of the pots and overthrow the kiln, and let the potters see the mischief and be grieved; but I will gloat as I behold their luckless craft. And if anyone of them stoops to peer in, let all his face be burned up, that all men may learn to deal honestly. XV[14] Let us betake us to the house of some man of great power,—one who bears great power and is greatly prosperous always. Open of yourselves, you doors, for mighty Wealth will enter in, and with Wealth comes jolly Mirth and gentle Peace. May all the corn-bins be full and the mass of dough always overflow the kneading-trough. Now (set before us) cheerful barley-pottage, full of sesame... Your son's wife, driving to this house with strong-hoofed mules, shall dismount from her carriage to greet you; may she be shod with golden shoes as she stands weaving at the loom. I come, and I come yearly, like the swallow that perches light-footed in the fore-part of your house. But quickly bring... XVI If you will give us anything (well). But if not, we will not wait, for we are not come here to dwell with you. XVII HOMER Hunters of deep sea prey, have we caught anything? FISHERMEN All that we caught we left behind, and all that we did not catch we carry home.[15] HOMER Ay, for of such fathers you are sprung as neither hold rich lands nor tend countless sheep.

1. Plato, Diogenes, Contest of Homer: ῥόῃ, pseudo-Herodotus.
2. Restored to metrical form by Barnes.
3. Kuester : πέπον, βροτῶν, MSS.
4. Ruhnken : τ’ ἄλλοισιν, Sources : The Contest of Homer adds the verse : λαὸς δ’ εἰν ἀγορῆσι καθήμενος εἰσοράασθαι.
5. Pollux : μελανθοῖεν, μελανθεῖεν, Life of Homer.
6. Ilgen : βρεμει, MSS.
7. Koechly : ἀπ’ Ἀρκαδίης, MSS.
8. The Epigrams are preserved in the pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer. Nos. III, XIII, and XVII are also found in the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, and No. I is also extant at the end of some MSS. of the Homeric Hymns.
9. sc. from Smyrna, Homer's reputed birth-place.
10. The councillors of Cyme who refused to support Homer at the public expense.
11. The "better fruit" is apparently the iron smelted out in fires of pine-wood.
12. Hecate: cp. Hesiod, Theogony, 450.
13. i.e. in protection.
14. This song is called by pseudo-Herodotus Εἰρησιώνη. The word properly indicates a garland wound with wool which was worn at harvest-festivals, but came to be applied first to the harvest song and then to any begging song. The present is akin to the Swallow-Song (Χελιδόνισμα), sung at the beginning of spring, and answering to the still surviving English May-Day songs. Cp. Athenaeus, viii. 360 b.
15. The lice which they caught in their clothes they left behind, but carried home in their clothes those which they could not catch.

Francois-Pier (talk) 00:46, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

That last one looks good. Nice work! (I just made a small change to it, used an ndash, not hyphen, for the page range 467–477. ndash is the first symbol in the "Insert" and "Wiki markup" menus when editing. Also, EB1911 uses ndash for year ranges. See https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/en-dash.html ) DivermanAU (talk) 11:32, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

@DivermanAU: Nice work!?, but my contribution reversed by an administrator. --Francois-Pier (talk) 23:07, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Greek transcriptions do not belong here

Hi. Thanks for the contributions, however they are not for here, they belong at Greek Wikisource. Language wikis hold the relevant language. I suggest setting up the same book at elWS as an Index: and the Page: namespace components can be moved over, and transcluded there. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:14, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for Weighing Machines

It seems that you've done major work on the formulae and images in Page Space (Page:EB1911 - Volume 28.djvu/486 et seq). Great work! If you think it's ready, can you check off the list at Wikisource talk:WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica#Half a dozen left, and also create 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Weighing Machines? I can do the latter if you wish. Thanks again. DavidBrooks (talk) 15:21, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

@DavidBrooks: [Not ready]. Can you recover the missing text of the problematic Page:EB1911 - Volume 28.djvu/486 ? --Francois-Pier (talk) 17:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

You mean the garbled text in the middle? Try archive.org. DavidBrooks (talk) 20:41, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

The Biographical Dictionary of America

I see that you have been working on this; thank you! In the future, please use the specialized header template I designed for this work: {{BDA}}. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:24, 6 November 2020 (UTC).

@TE(æ)A,ea. (talk • contribs): Thanks for your contribution. A discussion opened for the template. --Francois-Pier (talk) 08:52, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

The discussion, as it was (not), has concluded, I presume; as such, please use the template, or bring the discussion to a more noticeable general forum. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:49, 16 November 2020 (UTC).

Hello again @TE(æ)A,ea. (talk • contribs), a discussion already existed, please do not reply here, otherwise, you can bring the discussion to the forum you wish. Thank you. --Francois-Pier (talk) 01:39, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Samuel Davies Alexander

{{help me}} The header of Author:Samuel Davies Alexander is not connected with wikidata:Q42156315. --Francois-Pier (talk) 12:25, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Seems like this has been resolved? Well done! :-) Inductiveload—talk/contribs 23:30, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your EB1911 contributions

Hi Francois-Pier, thanks for the recent edits you've made, your work is appreciated. FYI, I made a minor change to several of the articles you created by adding a sort parameter to the category for Volcano Islands, Wensleydale, Wollin, Yezo, Yezidis, Wends, Wolof. Also, for a few of them e.g. Wolof, I edited the Wikipedia article name (w:Wolof people) as it is not always the same, and Yezo to w:Ezo. Thanks, DivermanAU (talk) 14:10, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

align=center in tables

Hi! Just a quick note: the HTML attribute align=center in tables is deprecated and can cause problems, for example on export, where it's often interpreted as a left aligned table with centred content. It's better to use the CSS style style="margin:auto;" (or the shorthand {{ts|ma}}). Inductiveload—talk/contribs 09:28, 24 December 2020 (UTC)