To the Dioscuri

Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914 · 2 lines · Read at the source

17.1-4Sing, clear-voiced Muse, of Castor and Polydeuces, the Tyndaridae, who sprang from Olympian Zeus. Beneath the heights of Taygetus stately Leda bare them, when the dark-clouded Son of Cronos had privily bent her to his will.

17.5Hail, children of Tyndareus, riders upon swift horses!