Ἱμαῖον ᾆσμα
water-drawing song
Translated by Catharine Roth13 Apr 2006Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
That which is said when water is being drawn; from [the verb] i(ma=n . But others [say it means a song] for milling.1 "And somewhere a certain water-carrying man raised a work-song": Callimachus in Hecale [sc. writes this].2