The Extant Odes of Pindar / Translated with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers

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and first colonized Gela and then Akragas (the Latin Agrigentu

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Herakles the Olympian feast was founded from the chief spoils of war, and Theron's name must we proclaim for his victory with

lling place, and became the eye of Sicily, and a life of good luck clav

f games and of Alpheos' ford, for joy in these my songs guard ever gra

e the accomplishment, yet with happy fortune forgetfulness may come. For by high delights an al

lympians long-haired Semele still liveth, albeit she perished in the thunder's roar, and Pallas cherisheth her ever, and Father Zeus exceedingly, and h

l see in calm the end of one of the Sun's children, the Days, with good thitherto

n La?os was slain by his destined son[4] who met him on the road and made fulfilment of the oracle spoken of old at Pytho. Then swift Erinys when she saw it slew by each other's hand

n the lyre. For at Olympia he himself received a prize and at Pytho, and at the Isthmus to his brother

nto the heart of man a deep and eager mood, a star far seen, a light wherein a man shall trust if but[7] the holder thereof knoweth the things that shall be, how

hey the earth nor the waters of the sea, in that new world; but with the honoured of the gods, whosoever had pl

wer of Kronos: there round the islands of the blest the Ocean-breezes blow, and golden flowers are glowing, some from the land on trees of splendour, and some the water feedeth, with

d moved the heart of Zeus, bare thither her son, even him who overthrew Hector, Troy's unbend

e multitude they need interpreters. His art is true who of his nature hath knowledge; they who have but learnt, st

? At Akragas will I take aim, and will proclaim and swear it with a mind of truth, that for a hundred years no ci

ustice, but from covetous men it cometh, and is fain t

he joys that Theron hath given to othe

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eek: ei de min echei; eu de min echon] has also been suggested; but of these three none seems to me t

especially the fragments of his Dirges which remain to

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