Here's
one of the few fragments of the works of the poetess HEDYLE
Hedyle
the daughter of a poetess Moschine had a son who wrote poetry but
little remains of their works
From
her poem Scylla these lines survive describing Glaucus bearing gifts
to Scylla's cave before her transformation into a monster.
“
from the
Erythean rock,
or
the children of halycon (birds) yet wingless,
to
the nymph.....”
Ἐρυθραίης
ἀπὸπέτρης,
ἢ
τοὺς ἀλκυόνων παῖδας ἔτ̓ ἀπτερύγους,
τῇ
νύμφῃ δύσπιστος ἀθύρματα. …..”
