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Pindar, Nemean (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien),
Nemean 8
For Deinias of Aegina
Double Foot Race
?459 B. C. (search)
Nemean 8
For Deinias of Aegina
Double Foot Race
?459 B. C.
Queenly Season of Youth, herald of the divine embraces of Aphrodite, you who rest in the eyes of young girls and boys, and carry one man in the gentle arms of compulsion, but handle another man differently. It is a desirable thing, for one who has not strayed from due measure in any deed,to be able to win the better kinds of love;
such loves,the shepherds of Cyprian Aphrodite's gifts, attended the marriage-bed of Zeus and Aegina. And from that union a son was born, the king of Oenone, the best in hands and mind. Many men often prayed that they might see him; for, unbidden, the choicest heroes that dwelled around himwanted to submit to his commands willingly,
those who marshalled their people in rocky Athens, and the descendants of Pelops in Sparta. As a suppliant I cling to the sacred knees of Aeacus, on behalf of his dear city and these citizens, bringinga Lydian crown embroidered with song, glory from Nemea in the double f