Note 713 — BOOK THE TWENTY-SECOND.
Theodore Alois Buckley translation · Edition 4
Footnote 713: (return) “This hymn consisted in a repetition, cf. v. 393, 4, which Quintus Smyrnæus has imitated in Ιδ. 117, and Abronius Silo translated ap. Senec. Suas. c. 2. The most ancient hymn of this kind on record is that in the first book of Samuel, xviii. 7.”—Kennedy.