Pausanias, Description of Greece, ed. Friedrich Spiro, 10.24.2

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οὗτοι μὲν δὴ ἐνταῦθα ἔγραψαν τὰ εἰρημένα, θεάσαιο δʼ ἂν καὶ εἰκόνα Ὁμήρου χαλκῆν ἐπὶ στήλῃ καὶ ἐπιλέξει τὸ μάντευμα ὃ γενέσθαι τῷ Ὁμήρῳ λέγουσιν·

ὄλβιε καὶ δύσδαιμον—ἔφυς γὰρ ἐπʼ ἀμφοτέροισι—,

πατρίδα δίζηαι. μητρὶς δέ τοι, οὐ πατρίς ἐστιν.

ἔστιν Ἴος νῆσος μητρὸς πατρίς, ἥ σε θανόντα

δέξεται. ἀλλὰ νέων παίδων αἴνιγμα φύλαξαι.

δεικνύουσι δὲ οἱ Ἰῆται καὶ Ὁμήρου μνῆμα ἐν τῇ νήσῳ καὶ ἑτέρωθι Κλυμένης, τὴν Κλυμένην μητέρα εἶναι 0 τοῦ Ὁμήρου λέγοντες.

Description of Greece. Pausanias. ed. Friedrich Spiro. Leipzig. 1903.

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

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Description of Greece Perseus (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.) — 10.24.2 focus

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So these men wrote what I have said, and you can see a bronze statue of Homer on a slab, and read the oracle that they say Homer received:—

Blessed and unhappy, for to be both wast thou born.

Thou seekest thy father-land; but no father-land hast thou, only a mother-land.

The island of Ios is the father-land of thy mother, which will receive thee

When thou hast died; but be on thy guard against the riddle of the young children.

The inhabitants of Ios point to Homer's tomb in the island, and in another part to that of Clymene, who was, they say, the mother of Homer.

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.) — 10.24.2 focus

[2] So these men wrote what I have said, and you can see a bronze statue of Homer on a slab, and read the oracle that they say Homer received:

Blessed and unhappy, for to be both were you born.
You seek your fatherland; but no fatherland have you, only a motherland.
The island of Ios is the fatherland of your mother, which will receive you
When you have died; but be on your guard against the riddle of the young children.

The inhabitants of Ios point to Homer’s tomb in the island, and in another part to that of Clymene, who was, they say, the mother of Homer.

Pausanias Description of Greece 10.24.2

ed. Friedrich Spiro

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