To Hephaestus

Hymn To Hephaestus

Sing, clear-voiced Muse, of Hephaestus famed for inventions. 

With bright-eyed Athena he taught men glorious crafts throughout the world,--men who before used to dwell in caves in the mountains like wild beasts. 

But now that they have learned crafts through Hephaestus the famed worker, 

easily they live a peaceful life in their own houses the whole year round.

Be gracious, Hephaestus, and grant me success and prosperity!

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Further comments from Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns:
line 5: erga daentes

자료: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=HH+20+1(English etext of the Homeric Hymns Translation by H.G. Evelyn-White at Perseus)

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cf. “Homeric Hymn to Hephaestus,” in H. G. Evelyn-White, trans., Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Loeb Classical Library, 1914)

Sing clear-voiced Muse, of Hephaestus famed for skill.

With bright-eyed Athena he taught men glorious crafts throughout the world--men who before used to dwell in caves in the mountains like wild beasts.

But now that they have learned crafts through Hephaestus famous for his art

they live a peaceful life in their own houses the whole year round.

(Be gracious, Hephaestus, and grant me success and prosperity!)