hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 96 0 Browse Search
Pausanias, Description of Greece 84 0 Browse Search
Diodorus Siculus, Library 12 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) 6 0 Browse Search
Polybius, Histories 4 0 Browse Search
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 4 0 Browse Search
Demosthenes, Letters (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt) 4 0 Browse Search
Lysias, Speeches 4 0 Browse Search
Aristotle, Politics 4 0 Browse Search
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) 4 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Bacchylides, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien). You can also browse the collection for Aegina (Greece) or search for Aegina (Greece) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Bacchylides, Epinicians (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien), Ode 10 For an Athenian Foot Race at the Isthmus Date unknown (search)
, breathing out a storm of hot breath, and again moistened the cloaks of the spectators with olive oil, rushing into the close-packed crowd when he rounded the fourth turn of the course, the spokesmen of the wise judges proclaimed him twice an Isthmian victor, and twice in Nemea, beside the sacred altar of Zeus son of Cronus. Glorious Thebes also welcomed him fittingly, and spacious Argos, and Sicyon, and those who dwell in Pellene, and in Euboea rich in grain, and on the holy island Aegina. Each man seeks a different path on which to walk to attain conspicuous glory; and the forms of knowledge among men are countless. Indeed, a man is skillful if he has a share of honor from the Graces and blooms with golden hope, or if he has some knowledge of the prophetic art; another man aims his artful bow at boys; others swell their spirits with fields and herds of cattle. The future begets unpredictable results: which way will fortune's scale incline? The finest thing is to be en