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Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database



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Callimachus, Hymn To Ceres Or Demeter, 17


nanNay, nay, let us not speak of that which brought the tear to Deo! Better to tell how she gave cities pleasing ordinances; better to tell how she was the first to cut straw and holy sheaves of corn-ears and put in oxen to tread them, what time Triptolemus was taught the good craft; better to tell — a warning to men that they avoid transgression — how (she made the son of Triopas hateful and pitiful) to see.


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