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

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marian, who placed it there on account of its being specially occupied with the glorification of

his power at Syracuse. Probably the ode was sung at

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by day, so neither shall we find any games greater than the Olympic whereof to utter our voice: for hence cometh the glorious hymn and entereth into the minds of the skilled in song, so that they celebrate the son[1] of Kronos, when to the rich and happy hear

d thy soul unto glad thoughts, when by the banks of Alpheos he ran, and gave his body ungoaded

se founder mighty earth-enfolding Poseidon loved, what time from the vessel of

n's speech concerning them. For Charis[5], who maketh all sweet things for mortal men, by lending honour unto

will tell how when thy father had bidden thee to that most seemly feast at his beloved Sipylos, repaying to the gods their banquet, then did he of the Bright Trident[6], his hear

that over water heated to boiling they had hewn asunder with a knife thy limbs, and at the tables had shared among them and eaten sodden fragm

e he could not digest, and by excess thereof won him an overwhelming woe, in that the Father hath hung

immortals and gave to his fellows at a feast the nectar and ambrosia, whereby the gods had made h

men. And he when toward the bloom of his sweet youth the down began to shade his darkening cheek, took cou

the darkness of the night, and called aloud on the deep-voiced

ng swift, and give the victory to my hands. Thirteen lovers already hath Oinomaos slain, and still delayeth to give his daughter in marriage. Now a great peril alloweth not of a coward: and forasmuc

him a glorious gift of a golden car and winged untiring stee

hath a frequented tomb, whereto many strangers resort: and from afar off he beholdeth the glory of the Olympian games in the courses called of Pelops, where is striv

sounding labyrinths of song more learned in the learning of honour and withal with more might to work thereto. A god hath guard over thy hopes, O Hieron, and taketh care for them with a peculiar care: and if he fail

not thou for more than this. May it be thine to walk loftily all thy life, and mine to b

Olympic games wer

orse that won this

3: Pelop

ning of man's life. Pindar refuses to accept the legend which made Pelops' ivory shoulder a substitute for his

r means here that men are prone to believe an untrue tale for the sake of the beauty of

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isyphos, Ixion