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Fragment 84 (Voigt 127)

84 · Voigt 127Hither now, Muses, leaving golden ...

Δεῦρο δηὖτε Μοῖσαι, χρύσιον λίποισαι.

Quoted by Hephaestion as an example of a verse made of two Ithyphallics.

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