{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/7930/?format=json","language":{"code":"eng","iso_name":"English","url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/languages/eng/?format=json"},"edition":{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/editions/1/?format=json","descriptions":[{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/descriptions/424/?format=json","language":{"code":"eng","iso_name":"English","url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/languages/eng/?format=json"},"created_at":"2021-05-06T21:10:04.033306Z","updated_at":"2021-05-06T21:10:04.033317Z","description":"Paton edition"}],"edition_type":0,"metadata":{},"created_at":"2021-04-08T21:27:25.406000Z","updated_at":"2021-04-08T21:27:25.406000Z"},"unique_id":99998307,"created_at":"2021-06-15T18:50:02.185902Z","updated_at":"2021-06-15T18:50:02.185911Z","validation":0,"status":1,"text":"\"Let us begin our song from the Heliconian\r\nMuses\" ; so Hesiod wrote,¹ they say, while he kept\r\nhis sheep. \" Sing, Ο goddess, the wrath,\" and\r\n\"Tell me, Muse, the man,\" said Calliope by the\r\nmouth of Homer. Now I have got to write a proem\r\nof some sort. But what shall I write now I am\r\nbeginning to publish this second book ? \" Olympian\r\nMuses, daughters of Zeus, I should not have been\r\nsaved unless Nero Caesar had given me money.\"","comments":[],"alignments":[],"passages":["https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:9.572/?format=json"]}