5th centrury BC shennanigans

IFTH CENTURY B.C.

1. Thuc. iii. 104 “δηλοῖ δὲ μάλιστα Ὅμηρος ὅτι τοιαῦτα ἦν [α φεστιϝαλ ατ δελος] ἐν τοῖς ἔπεσι τοῖσδε, ἅ ἐστιν ἐκ προοιμίου Ἀπόλλωνος: ‘ἀλλ̓ ὅτε Δήλῳ Φοῖβε μάλιστά γε θυμὸν ἐτέρφθης,
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σὺν σφοῖσιν τεκέεσσι γυναιξί τε σὴν ἐς ἀγυιάν:
ἔνθα σε πυγμαχίῃ τε καὶ ὀρχηστυῖ καὶ ἀοιδῇ
μνησάμενοι τέρπουσιν ὅταν καθέσωσιν ἀγῶνα.
’ ὅτι δὲ καὶ μουσικῆς ἀγὼν ἦν καὶ ἀγωνιούμενοι ἐφοίτων, ἐν τοῖσδε αὐ δηλοῖ, ἅ ἐστιν ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ προοιμίου. τὸν γὰρ Δηλιακὸν χορὸν τῶν γυναικῶν ὑμνήσας ἐτελεύτα τοῦ ἐπαίνου ἐς τάδε τὰ ἔπη, ἐν οἷς καὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἐπεμνήσθη: ‘ἀλλ̓ ἄγεθ̓ ἱλήκοι μὲν Ἀπόλλων Ἀρτέμιδι ξύν,
χαίρετε δ̓ ὑμεῖς πᾶσαι: ἐμεῖο δὲ καὶ μετόπισθε
μνήσασθ᾽ ὁππότε κέν τις ἐπιχθονίων ἀνθρώπων
ἐνθάδ̓ ἀνείρηται ταλαπείριος ἄλλος ἐπελθών:
ὦ κοῦραι τίς δ᾽ ὔμμιν ἀνὴρ ἥδιστος ἀοιδῶν
ἐνθάδε πωλεῖται καὶ τέῳ τέρπεσθε μάλιστα;
ὑμεῖς δ᾽ εὖ μάλα πᾶσαι ὑποκρίνασθαι ἀφήμως,
τυφλὸς ἀνήρ, οἰκεῖ δὲ Χίῳ ἔνι παιπαλοέσσῃ.
’ ” = Apoll. 146-150, 165-172 with variants.
This citation, which was possibly intended as a reply to Herodotus' appeal to Olen's hymn (also with regard to Delos) iv. 35 (see further p. lvi), evidently recognises the Hymn to Apollo as Homeric. Thucydides calls it “προοίμιον”, the designation used by Pindar, who (Nem. ii. 1) alludes to a hymn to Zeus as “Διὸς ἐκ προοιμίου”.¹ T (click the blue text for more)