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When she made an end to banquets for gods and the race of men, Zeus spoke out, appeasing the
Mother’s gloomy wrath:
Go, holy Graces, go and with a loud cry take from Demeter’s angry heart her grief for the maiden;
1340
and you, Muses, with song and dance. Then Kypris, fairest of the blessed gods, first took up the rumbling voice of bronze and the drum with tight-stretched skin; and the goddess smiled,
1345
and received in her hand the deep-toned flute, pleased with its loud note.
1350
When she made an end to banquets for gods and the race of men, Zeus spoke out, appeasing the
Mother’s gloomy wrath:
Go, holy Graces, go and with a loud cry take from Demeter’s angry heart her grief for the maiden;
1340
and you, Muses, with song and dance. Then Kypris, fairest of the blessed gods, first took up the rumbling voice of bronze and the drum with tight-stretched skin; and the goddess smiled,
1345
and received in her hand the deep-toned flute, pleased with its loud note.
1350
Helen. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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