Laudator Temporis Acti

Hermocles of Cyzicus (?), Hymn to Demetrius Poliorcetes, lines 15-20, tr. Jon D. Mikalson, Religion in Hellenistic Athens (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), p. 95:

The other gods are either far distant,
or do not have ears,
or do not exist or pay no attention to us,
but we see you present,
not made of stone or wood, but real.
We pray to you...

ἄλλοι μὲν ἢ μακρὰν γὰρ ἀπέχουσιν θεοί,
    ἢ οὐκ ἔχουσιν ὦτα,
ἢ οὐκ εἴσιν, ἢ οὐ προσέχουσιν ἡμῖν οὐδὲ ἕν,
    σὲ δὲ παρόνθ᾿ ὁρῶμεν,
οὐ ξύλινον οὐδὲ λίθινον, ἀλλ᾿ ἀληθινόν.
    εὐχόμεσθα δή σοι...

Discussions of the hymn include:

• Otto Weinreich, "Antikes Gottmenschentum," Ausgewählte Schriften, II: 1922-1937 (Amsterdam: R. Grüner, 1973), pp. 171-197 (at 190-192)
• Victor Ehrenberg, "Athenian Hymn to Demetrius Poliorcetes," Aspects of the Ancient World (1946; rpt. New York: Arno, 1973), pp. 179-198 (unavailable to me)
• Miroslav Marcovich, "Hermocles' Ithyphallus for Demetrius," Studies in Graeco-Roman Religions and Gnosticism (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988), pp. 8-19 (these lines discussed on pp. 13-17)
• Angelos Chaniotis, "The Ithyphallic Hymn for Demetrios Poliorketes and Hellenistic Religious Mentality," in Pangiotis P. Iossif et al., edd., More than Men, Less than Gods: Studies on Royal Cult and Imperial Worship (Leuven: Peeters, 2011), pp. 157-195