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Prayer to Apollo

Apollo
Give your favour, Phoebus, to a new priest who enters your temple. Be gracious, and with songs and lyre, come! When your fingers pluck the chords, and you give voice to song, I pray you may inspire my words into your praises. May your hair be ever flowing, Phoebus; may your sister be forever chaste.
Fons · Source
AuthorTibullus
WorkElegiae
Section2.5.1-4; 122-123
Period1st c. BC
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Cultureroman
Formliterary
DeitiesApollo
Functionspetition · invocation · praise
Spherepersonal · arts