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Quotation from The Homeric Hymns by Anonymous (Homeric)

“I begin to sing of Asclepius, son of Apollo and healer of sicknesses.”

Anonymous (Homeric) (spoken by The singer)

The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XVI, To Asclepius, l. 1, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)

The opening of the short hymn to the healing god, born to Coronis in the Dotian plain.

Citation: "I begin to sing of Asclepius, son of Apollo and healer of sicknesses." — Anonymous (Homeric), The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XVI, To Asclepius, l. 1, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914). (id homeric-hymns-q5)

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