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Quotation from The Homeric Hymns by Anonymous (Homeric)

“For it was Hermes who first made the tortoise a singer.”

Anonymous (Homeric) (spoken by Narrator)

The Homeric Hymns, Hymn IV, To Hermes, ll. 1-29, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)

The infant god finds a tortoise at the door of Maia's cave and turns its shell into the first lyre.

Citation: "For it was Hermes who first made the tortoise a singer." — Anonymous (Homeric), The Homeric Hymns, Hymn IV, To Hermes, ll. 1-29, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914). (id homeric-hymns-q3)

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