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Prayer to Apollo

Apollo
Come, Phoebus, with Your golden hair loosely floating, soothe her torture, restore her fair complexion. Come quickly, we pray, we implore, use Your happy skills, such charms as You never spared before. Grant that her frail frame shall not waste away with consumption, or her eyes grow languid, and her bloom fade. Come now with Your favoring aid.
Fons · Source
AuthorTibullus
WorkElegiae
Section4.4.1ff
Period1st c. BC
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Cultureroman
Formpersonal
DeitiesApollo
Functionspetition · invocation
Spherehealing · family