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These women with the voices of gods were raised by the Helikon and Macedonian Pieria's peak, on a diet of songs: Praxilla, Moiro, Anyte's poetry (the female Homer); Lesbian Sappho with her fair hair in beautiful tresses; Erinna, glorious Telesilla, and you, Korinna, who sang of Athene's shield when she rushed to war; Nossis with her woman's tongue, and sweet-sounding Myrtis: these are the craftswomen of everflowing verse. Nine Muses on great Olympos, and for each a woman born on Earth: to we mortals, an eternal delight.

κάλλιστον μὲν ἐγὼ λείπω φάος ἠελίοιο, δεύτερον ἄστρα φαεινὰ σεληναίης τε πρόσωπον ἠδὲ καὶ ὡραίους σικύους καὶ μῆλα καὶ ὄγχνας· - The loveliest thing I leave is the sunlight, second, the shining stars and the moon's face, and cucumbers in season, too, and apples, and pears.

This Praxilla in her Hymns tells of Adonis being asked by Those Below what was best of the things he had left behind when he died. He replied thus: "The best thing I left was the light of the sun; second, the shining stars and the moon's orb; and then the cucumbers and apples and pears in season."