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

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eem however to have been written, like the fourth Olympian, to be su

to us no less than eleven are i

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ite lightnings, whether he hath any word concerning men who seek in their hearts to attain unto great prowess and a breathing-space from toil; for it

ur waiteth. Yet this good cometh to one, that to another,

the guardian of your house, even to him who hath made thee glorious at

atch victorious made proclamation that his country was Aigina of long oars, where saviour Themis who

is a hard essay, yet hath some ordinance of immortals given this sea-defended land to be t

Poseidon, when they would make a crown for Ilion, called to work with them at the wall, for that it

d leapt at the rampart: two fell and perished in

ds have wrought is Pergamos taken: thus saith this sign, sent of the son of Kronos, loud-thunde

to Xanthos and the Amazons of goodl

riot, and hither[5] first he bare with him Aiakos behind the golden m

ory in my song of his boys, let not envy cast at me her cruel stone. Nay but at Nemea too will I t

without trial the mind wavereth. And beyond all others can Melesias declare all works on that

th put off from him upon the bodies of four striplings the loathed return ungreeted of fair speech, and the path obscure[7]; and in his

that gave victory to the Blepsiad clan, to whom this is now the six

d tell to Kallimachos this lustre of Olympic glory, which Zeus hath granted to this house. Honour upon honour may he vouchsafe unto it, and shield it from sore disease[9].

brother. He had won a vic

rcial reputation, and strangers were

first dragons typify

enter Troy, the third

os, who s

son, Telamon, was wit

dson Neoptolemos was

e 5: To

: Alkimedon

ircumstances of defeat and transferred them to the four opp

ave been the father and Kallim

ion and Kallimachos died