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[4] Pamphos was the first we know of to sing about the Graces, but his poetry contains no information either as to their number or about their names. Homer1（he too refers to the Graces） makes one the wife of Hephaestus, giving her the name of Grace. He also says that Sleep was a lover of Pasithea, and in the speech of Sleep there is this verse:—“Verily that he would give me one of the younger Graces.
”Hom. Il. 14.270-276Hence some have suspected that Homer knew of older Graces as well.

1 Hom. Il. 18.382 foll.

Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.

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