Apollo

Apollo struck his lyre, and the Muses lifted up their sweet voices, taking turns.

Not a word he spoke, but went by the shore of the sounding sea and prayed apart to King Apollo whom lovely Leto had borne.

Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chanting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices;

But the one that will be nearest and most to the point must be sought out, and, having called upon Persuasion and the Muses and Apollo, set forth as earnestly as we can.

and the temples should be propitiated with such adornments, just as Hector thought fit, when challenging the best of the Achaeans, saying that if he prevailed he would give the body back to the man's allies, but the arms, he said, 'I will strip off, and hang them in the temple of Apollo the far-darter.

accounting all his subjects slaves and ministers of his own luxury, not having even the character of a decent herdsman, who provides shelter and pasture for his flocks and besides wards off beasts and guards against thieves—but being himself the first to plunder and destroy, and permitting others to do so, as though, I think, with the spoil of enemies—then I would never call such a man either rule …

When we got to Sounion, which is the point of Athens, Apollo with his painless shafts killed Phrontis the steersman of Menelaos' ship (and never man knew better how to handle a vessel in rough weather) so that he died then and there with the helm in his hand, and Menelaos, though very anxious to press forward, had to wait in order to bury his comrade and give him his due funeral rites.

Apollo killed the first of them while he was still a bridegroom and without male issue;

but by Father Zeus, Athena, and Apollo, now that I see what kind of person you are, and how much you think as I do, I wish you would stay here, marry my daughter, and become my son-in-law.

And further, Loxias saved Croesus from burning.

And it was the wish of Loxias that the evil lot of

Sardis fall in the lifetime of Croesus ' sons, not in his own;

Then, though there are many other things that we praise in Homer, this we will not applaud, the sending of the dream by Zeus to Agamemnon, nor shall we approve of Aeschylus when his Thetis avers that Apollo singing at her wedding, foretold the happy fortunes of her issue — Their days prolonged, from pain and sickness free, And rounding out the tale of heaven’s blessings, Raised the proud paean, making glad my heart.

We are not innovating, my friend, in preferring Apollo and the instruments of Apollo to Marsyas and his instruments.

or again to believe that he said to Apollo Me thou hast baulked, Far-darter, the most pernicious of all gods, Mightily would I requite thee if only my hands had the power.

There is a report which I may also mention, that when Alemaeon, son of Amphiaraus, was wandering about after the murder of his mother, Apollo directed him by an oracle to inhabit this region, by suggesting to him that he would have no release from his terrors till he should discover and inhabit a country which had not yet been seen by the sun, nor existed as land, at the time he slew his mother;

Now be Apollo kind, and Dian too;

Anon to Delos, Phoebus, wouldst thou come, Still most delighting in thine island-home;

"And in time Apollo was born" — and no wonder, since he is found serving Admetus, together with Heracles, for a great year.

"O Delphians, servants of the far-shooting Apollo, I have come to deliver the mind of aegis-bearing Zeus, being wroth with my own brother Apollo.

21.135. And Theopompus and Ephorus and Timaeus record a certain Orthagoras as a seer, as does Pythocles of Samos, in the fourth book of his Italica, Gaius Julius Nepos. But these are all thieves and robbers, as the Scripture says, having foretold most things from observation and from probabilities, like the physicians and seers who judge by physiognomy; while others were moved by demons, or distur …

It was here, according to the story, that Apollo flayed Marsyas, after having defeated him in a contest of musical skill;

When Xenophon came back from Delphi, he reported the oracle to Socrates;

So Xenophon went and asked Apollo to what one of the gods he should sacrifice and pray in order best and most successfully to perform the journey which he had in mind and, after meeting with good fortune, to return home in safety;

But Diopeithes, a man very well versed in oracles, said in support of Leotychides that there was also an oracle of Apollo which bade the Lacedaemonians beware of the lame kingship.

After this Agis, having gone to Delphi and offered to the god the appointed tithe of his booty, on his way back fell sick at Heraea, being now an old man, and although he was still living when brought home to Lacedaemon, once there he very soon died;

In this way, accordingly, the truce was made, and Agesilaus went to Delphi and offered to the god a tithe of the amount derived from his booty, an offering of not less than one hundred talents;

For in that way it will be allowed to say that Jupiter is always bearded, Apollo always beardless, that Minerva's eyes are grey, Neptune's blue.

for from childhood we have known Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Neptune, Vulcan, Apollo, and the rest of the gods by that face which painters and sculptors chose, and not only by face but by adornment, age, and dress.

Now the name of Apollo is Greek;

and doubtless this is the force of Apollo's precept, by which he counsels each man to know himself.

And so he relates that, just as swans — who are dedicated to Apollo not without cause, but because they seem to have from him a power of divination, by which, foreseeing what good there is in death, they die with song and pleasure — so all good and learned men ought to do.

who, when they had built a temple for Apollo at Delphi, worshipping the god, asked a reward — and no small one — for their work and labour:

the Clarian, the Pythian, the Didymaean, the oracle of Amphiaraus, of Apollo, of Amphilochus;

And how many Apollos are there even now — countless mortal and perishable men, called by the same name as those mentioned before?

But Zeus, appearing later — if he was a god, perhaps having got a share of the savour of the roasting flesh, the privilege which your gods admit they are allotted — blasted the Titans with the thunderbolt and entrusted the limbs of Dionysus to his son Apollo for burial.

Creusa:

Creusa:

Athena:

Orestes:

Orestes:

It is Phoebus, who commanded me to kill my mother.

Apollo the Deliverer!

his daughter has an owl, and Phoebus, as his servant, has a hawk.

and then let Apollo cure them, since he is a physician and is paid for the purpose.

Yes, by Apollo!

By Apollo, of a truth you have rightly confirmed this by your present argument.

Hear me again, King Phoebus, Delian Apollo, who inhabitest the high-peaked Cynthian rock!

Since the Ozolian Locrians, settled at Amphissa, are outraging the temple of Apollo at Delphi and come in arms to plunder the sacred territory, I consent to join you in helping the god and in punishing those who transgress in any way the principles of religion.

In the priesthood of Cleinagoras, at the spring session, it was resolved by the Wardens, Assessors, and General Synod that whereas the Amphissians who have occupied the sacred territory are tilling and grazing the same, and, when forbidden to do so, have appeared in arms and resisted the common assembly of the Greeks by force, and have actually wounded some of them, the general appointed by some o …

I invoke also Pythian Apollo, the ancestral divinity of this city, and I solemnly beseech them all that, if I shall speak the truth now, and if I spoke truth to my countrymen when first I saw this miscreant putting his hand to that transaction—for I knew it, I knew it instantly—they may grant to me prosperity and salvation.

Death:

Death:

Death:

For his sire stands not by my side to lend his aid and cannot avail his child at all, being absent in the land of Delphi, where he is offering recompense to Loxias for the madness he committed, when on a day he went to Pytho and demanded of Phoebus satisfaction for his father’s death, if haply his prayer might avert those past sins and win for him the god’s goodwill hereafter.

Chorus:

Peleus:

the words of Phoebus are no benefit to me;

Phoebus, though a prophet, has deceived me;

Flight is not to be endured, nor are we accustomed to it, and we must not bring reproach on the god’s oracle;

Phoebus.

Is Phoebus:

Thymbraean, Delian, Birth divine,

Dark riddles of Phoebus stole away my judgment.

What said Apollo to determine the maidens’ marriage?

That I should give my daughters twain to a wild boar and a lion.

For it is through the Muses and far-shooting Apollo that there are singers and harpers upon the earth;

Also she brought forth a holy company of daughters who with the lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their keeping—to this charge Zeus appointed them—Peitho, and Admete, and Ianthe, and Electra, and Doris, and Prymno, and Urania divine in form, Hippo, Clymene, Rhodea, and Callirrhoe, Zeuxo and Clytie, and Idyia, and Pasithoe, Plexaura, and Galaxaura, and lovely Dione, Melobosis and Thoe and handsome Polydora,

Thence they arise and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals, and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights in arrows, and Poseidon the earth holder who shakes the earth, and revered Themis, and quick-glancing …

Once modulated on the many chords,

The swan's old lyric, and Apollo's hymns,

Than Delphic laurel of Apollo lord.