From the Muses of Helicon
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Μουσάων Ἑλικωνιάδων ἀρχώμεθ᾽ ἀείδειν,
The oldest cosmogony in Greek opens not with the world but with a song about the singers: the poet calls on the Muses of Mount Helicon, and every later epic invocation — Homer’s "sing, goddess," Virgil’s "arms and the man" — descends from this line.
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