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What wedding-hymn was that which raised its strains to the sound of Libyan flutes, to the music of the dancer’s lyre, and the note of the pipe of reeds?
It was on the day
Pieria
’s lovely-haired choir came over the slopes of
Pelion
to the wedding of Peleus, beating the ground with print of golden sandals at the banquet of the gods,
1040
and hymning in dulcet strains the praise of Thetis and the son of Aeacus, over the Centaurs’ hill, down woods of
Pelion
.
1045
There was the Dardanian boy,
dainty morsel of Zeus’ bed, drawing off the wine he mixed in the depths of golden bowls, Ganymede the Phrygian; while, along the gleaming sand,
1050
the fifty daughters of Nereus graced the marriage with their dancing, circling in a mazy ring.
1055
What wedding-hymn was that which raised its strains to the sound of Libyan flutes, to the music of the dancer’s lyre, and the note of the pipe of reeds?
It was on the day
Pieria
’s lovely-haired choir came over the slopes of
Pelion
to the wedding of Peleus, beating the ground with print of golden sandals at the banquet of the gods,
1040
and hymning in dulcet strains the praise of Thetis and the son of Aeacus, over the Centaurs’ hill, down woods of
Pelion
.
1045
There was the Dardanian boy,
dainty morsel of Zeus’ bed, drawing off the wine he mixed in the depths of golden bowls, Ganymede the Phrygian; while, along the gleaming sand,
1050
the fifty daughters of Nereus graced the marriage with their dancing, circling in a mazy ring.
1055
Iphigenia in Aulis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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