Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns

[12] δὸς δ᾽ Η῾μᾶς χαίροντας: so in the paean to Asclepius (Ziebarth Comm. Philol. Monach. 1891, p. 1, v. 15) “δὸς δ᾽ ἡμᾶς χαίροντας ὁρᾶν φάος ἠελίοιο”.

ἐς ὥρας: Baumeister tries to prove that this phrase does not necessarily imply “for a year.” In Od. 9.135 “ εἰς ὥρας” may be indefinite “as the seasons come,” but generally a definite year seems intended. Gemoll compares Plato Ep. vii. p. 346 “μένε . . . τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν τοῦτον, εἰς δὲ ὥρας ἄπιθι”. Add (for Attic) Thesm. 950 “ἐκ τῶν ὡρῶν εἰς τὰς ὥρας” “year in, year out,” Nub. 562, Ran. 381, and (for other dialects) Theocr. xv. 74 “εἰς ὤρας κἤπειτα”, “for next year and ever,” a passage similar to the present. For the idiom generally cf. Plutarch Lycurg. 6 “ὥρας ἐξ ὥρας”, Isyllus in C. I. Pel. et Ins. i. 950 B 25 “ὥραις ἐξ ὡρῶν νόμον ἀεὶ τόνδε σέβοντας”, Theocr. xviii. 15 “κεἰς ἔτος ἐξ ἔτεος”, Aeschines i. 63 “χρόνους ἐκ χρόνων”, Anth. Pal. xii. 107 “εἰς ὥρας αὖθις ἄγοιτε”.