Pausanias, Description of Greece, W.H.S. Jones (Translator), H.A. Ormerod (Translator), 9.29.1

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Such is the truth about these things. The first to sacrifice on Helicon to the Muses and to call the mountain sacred to the Muses were, they say, Ephialtes and Otus, who also founded Ascra. To this also Hegesinus alludes in his poem Atthis:—

And again with Ascra lay Poseidon Earth-shaker,

Who when the year revolved bore him a son

Oeoclus, who first with the children of Aloeus founded

Ascra, which lies at the foot of Helicon, rich in springs.

Hegesinus, Atthis, unknown location.

Description of Greece. Pausanias. W.H.S. Jones (Translator), H.A. Ormerod (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1918-1935.

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Description of Greece (English) (Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece, Volumes 1-4. Jones, W.H.S. (William Henry Samuel), translator; Ormerod, Henry Arderne, translator. London, New York: W. Heinemann, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918-1935.)

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Ἑλλάδος Περιηγήσεως Perseus (Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.) — 9.29.1 focus

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ταῦτα μὲν δὴ ἔχοντά ἐστιν οὕτω, θῦσαι δὲ ἐν Ἑλικῶνι Μούσαις πρώτους καὶ ἐπονομάσαι τὸ ὄρος ἱερὸν εἶναι Μουσῶν Ἐφιάλτην καὶ Ὦτον λέγουσιν, οἰκίσαι δὲ αὐτοὺς καὶ Ἄσκρην· καὶ δὴ καὶ Ἡγησίνους ἐπὶ τῷδε ἐν τῇ Ἀτθίδι ἐποίησεν,

Ἄσκρῃ δʼ αὖ παρέλεκτο Ποσειδάων ἐνοσίχθων,

ἣ δή οἱ τέκε παῖδα περιπλομένων ἐνιαυτῶν

Οἴοκλον, ὃς πρῶτος μετʼ Ἀλωέος ἔκτισε παίδων

Ἄσκρην, ἥ θʼ Ἑλικῶνος ἔχει πόδα πιδακόεντα.

Hegesinus Atthis, unknown location.

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English (Jones and Ormerod; retranslated Gregory Nagy, CHS, 2018) (OCR draft) Experimental (CHS Pausanias Reader retranslation by Gregory Nagy, based on Jones and Ormerod, with marked Greek terms, notes, quotations, and bibliographic attributions preserved.) — 9.29.1 focus

[1] Such is the truth about these things. The first to sacrifice on Helicon to the Muses and to call the mountain sacred to the Muses were, they say, Ephialtes and Otos, who also founded Ascra. To this also Hegesinos alludes in his poem Atthis:

“And again with Ascra lay Poseidon Earth-shaker,
Who when the year revolved bore him a son
Oioklos, who first with the children of Aloeus founded
Ascra, which lies at the foot of Helicon, rich in springs.”

Hegesinos Atthis , unknown location.

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