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A NOTE ON CASTORION'S HYMN TO PAN (SH 310): METRE AND SYNTAX, READING AND LISTENING
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2015
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A passage of Clearchus' Περὶ γρίϕων (‘On riddles’), quoted by Athenaeus (10.454f–455a), preserves five lines from a Hymn to Pan by the early Hellenistic poet Castorion of Soloi, at the same time providing the reader with a clue to the puzzle that this fragment – according to the poet's own words – conveys:
τὸ δὲ Καστορίωνος τοῦ Σολέως [SH 310], ὡς ὁ Κλέαρχός ϕησιν [fr. 88 Wehrli], εἰς τὸν Πᾶνα ποίημα τοιοῦτόν ἐστι· τῶν ποδῶν ἕκαστος ὅλοις ὀνόμασιν περιειλημμένος πάντας ὁμοίως ἡγεμονικοὺς καὶ ἀκολουθητικοὺς ἔχει τοὺς πόδας, οἷον·
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