The Golden Verses of Pythagoras · 51 of 122 · tr. Florence M. Firth

Section 13 (part 18)

175 Ἦλθε δὲ νύκτ᾽ ἐπάγων μέγας Οὐρανός, ἀμφὶ δὲ Γαίῃ ἱμείρων φιλότητος ἐπέσχετο καί ῥ᾽ ἐτανύσθη πάντη· ὃ δ᾽ ἐκ λοχεοῖο πάις ὠρέξατο χειρὶ σκαιῇ, δεξιτερῇ δὲ πελώριον ἔλλαβεν ἅρπην μακρὴν καρχαρόδοντα, φίλου δ᾽ ἀπὸ μήδεα πατρὸς 180 ἐσσυμένως ἤμησε, πάλιν δ᾽ ἔρριψε φέρεσθαι ἐξοπίσω· τὰ μὲν οὔ τι ἐτώσια ἔκφυγε χειρός· ὅσσαι γὰρ ῥαθάμιγγες ἀπέσσυθεν αἱματόεσσαι, πάσας δέξατο Γαῖα· περιπλομένων δ᾽ ἐνιαυτῶν γείνατ᾽ Ἐρινῦς τε κρατερὰς μεγάλους τε Γίγαντας, 185 τεύχεσι λαμπομένους, δολίχ᾽ ἔγχεα χερσὶν ἔχοντας, Νύμφας θ᾽, ἃς Μελίας καλέουσ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀπείρονα γαῖαν.

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Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.

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