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Cyrene (Libya) (search for this): poem 4
Today you must stand beside a man dear to me, by the king of horsefamed Cyrene, and joining with Archesilaus in his victory revels, Muse, swell the breeze of songs owed to Leto's Twins and to d with her spontaneous shout, she who thrice crying "Hail" revealed you the predestined king of Cyrene, when you were asking what release might come from the gods for a stammering voice. Aftented you the plain of Libya to enrich by favor of the gods and the holy city of golden-throned Cyrene to govern, you who contrived a craft of right counsel. Know now the wisdom of Oedipus: ior you is woven out this web of favors. Take heart to lavish full devotion on divinely blessed Cyrene. Among the sayings of Homer this one lay to mind and heed: a noble messenger, he said, bestows the greatest honor to each office; even the Muse grows strong by true report. Cyrene and the most illustrious house of Battus have come to know the upright mind of Damophilus. For that man—
Thera (Greece) (search for this): poem 4
oracle that Battos would be founder of fruitbearing Libya, so that he'd finally leave the holy island and plant a city of fine chariots on a chalky breast of earth, and redeem in the seventeenth generation the word of Medea which at Thera once Aeëtes' fierce daughter breathed from immortal lips, the Colchean queen. Thus she spoke to the demigods who sailed with spearman Jason: "Hear me, you sons of bold-hearted men and gods: I say that from this wave-beaten land the daughtt of other cities, cities renowned among men, amid the foundations of Zeus Ammon. "And, changing short-finned dolphins for swift horses, they shall ply reins rather than oars and drive chariots with stormfoot teams. That Omen shall make Thera metropolis of mighty cities, the Omen which once amid the stream from lake Triton, Euphemus, descending the prow, received from a god in human form who offered him a guest-gift of earth —for him father Zeus, son of Kronos, rang out a peal o
Pytho (Greece) (search for this): poem 4
Today you must stand beside a man dear to me, by the king of horsefamed Cyrene, and joining with Archesilaus in his victory revels, Muse, swell the breeze of songs owed to Leto's Twins and to Pytho, where once the priestess sitting in honor beside the golden eagles of Zeus, Apollo now in his land, proclaimed by oracle that Battos would be founder of fruitbearing Libya, so that he'd finally leave the holy island and plant a city of fine chariots on a chalky breast of earth, aene, when you were asking what release might come from the gods for a stammering voice. After long time, even now, as at the peak of crimson-flowered spring, eighth in line from these children blossoms Archesilaus: to whom Apollo and Pytho granted glory in the chariot race from the hands of the Amphictyons. I shall offer to the Muses him and the golden fleece of the ram: for when the Minyans sailed after it, heaven-sent honors were planted for them. What then was the beg
Naxos (Greece) (search for this): poem 4
velous limbs, and round about it a leopard skin kept off the shivering rain; the lustrous locks of his hair had not been cut and lost, but cascaded down his entire back. Swiftly he went straight on, trying the mettle of his unshaken will, and in the middle of the square stood among the thronging crowd. No one knew him; but awestruck as they were, someone spoke thus: "Surely this isn't Apollo, nor is it bronze-charioted Ares, lord of Aphrodite; and they say that on gleaming Naxos died Iphimedeia's sons, Otos and you, daring lord Ephialtes. Then too Tityus fell hunted down by Artemis' swift arrow springing from her invincible quiver, so that a man might crave to caress possible loves." Such things they spoke in turn to one another; and on his polished mule-cart came Pelias rushing in pell-mell: he was at once astonished as he glanced uneasily at the single sandal conspicuous on its right foot. But hiding the fear in his heart he accosted him: "W
Phasis (Georgia) (search for this): poem 4
nd they came to the mouth of the Inhospitable Sea, where they established a sacred precinct for Poseidon of the sea: there was at hand a ruddy herd of Thracian cattle and, newly built of stones, a hollow altar. Rushing now into deep danger they implored the Lord of Ships to escape the irresistible movement of the Clashing Rocks. For both were alive, and rolled more rapidly than battle ranks of deep-roaring winds; but that voyage of demigods finally brought their end. To Phasis then they came, where they set their might against the crushing Chochians in presence of Aeëtes himself. But the sovereign of swiftest darts, Cyprogeneia, binding the dappled wryneck four-spoked upon an indissoluble wheel first brought the maddening bird to human kind and thus taught Aeson's son skill in invocations and incantations, that he might strip Medea of all reverence for her parents and that Hellas, fiercely desired, might set her whirling, as she blazed in spirit, with
Red Sea (search for this): poem 4
do that task. For it lay within a thicket near the ravenous jaws of a dragon which, in length and breadth, exceeded a fifty-oared ship wrought by iron-nailing blows. Returning home by highway is too long; for time is pressing me and I know a short path: for many others I lead the way in skill. The glaring-eyed snake with speckled back, O Archesilaus, he slew by cunning, and stole with her own help Medea, the Peliasassassin. They came amid the immensity of Ocean, and the Red Sea, and the race of manslaughtering Lemnian women: there also in contests of their limbs they showed their strength for a prize cloak, and slept with them. In foreign furrows then the destined days or nights prosperously received the seed of your family's splendor: for there Euphemus' race was planted to tower up forever; and after sharing Spartan homes and ways they settled in time on the island once called "Fairest;" from there the son of Leto granted you the plain of L
Argos (Greece) (search for this): poem 4
and now the imperishable seed of spacious Libya is shed on this island before its time. For had he cast the seed down at home by Hade's earthfast mouth, after returning to sacred Tanaeus, Euphemus, horse-ruling Poseidon's lordly son, whom Europa, daughter of Tityos, once bore by the banks of Cephesus, his blood in the fourth generation after him would have seized that vast continent together with the Danaans; for then will they depart from great Sparta, from the gulf of Argos and from Mycenae. Now, however, in the beds of alien women he shall discover a chosen race who, by favor of the gods, will come to this island and beget a man to be lord over plains cloaked in cloudshadow; and one day Apollo, in his gold-filled house, will admonish him by oracle, when at length he enters the Pythian shrine, to lead a host of men in ships to the rich precinct of Zeus Ammon by the Nile." So spoke the ranks of Media's speech, and they crouched stockstill, in sil
Mycenae (Greece) (search for this): poem 4
erishable seed of spacious Libya is shed on this island before its time. For had he cast the seed down at home by Hade's earthfast mouth, after returning to sacred Tanaeus, Euphemus, horse-ruling Poseidon's lordly son, whom Europa, daughter of Tityos, once bore by the banks of Cephesus, his blood in the fourth generation after him would have seized that vast continent together with the Danaans; for then will they depart from great Sparta, from the gulf of Argos and from Mycenae. Now, however, in the beds of alien women he shall discover a chosen race who, by favor of the gods, will come to this island and beget a man to be lord over plains cloaked in cloudshadow; and one day Apollo, in his gold-filled house, will admonish him by oracle, when at length he enters the Pythian shrine, to lead a host of men in ships to the rich precinct of Zeus Ammon by the Nile." So spoke the ranks of Media's speech, and they crouched stockstill, in silence, the godlik
Pylos (Greece) (search for this): poem 4
an expedition by ship. Accomplish, voluntarily, this task and I swear that I will yield you back to wield sole power and to rule. And as a mighty pledge, let Zeus be witness, the father of both our families." Approving this arrangement, they parted company. But Jason was already in hot haste inciting the heralds to announce everywhere that a voyage was under way. Quickly came the three sons, indomitable in war, of Cronian Zeus born to round-eyed Alcmene and Leda, and from Pylos and Taenarus' promontory the two top-knotted warriors sprung from the Earthshaker, respecting their own might with awe; whose noble glory found fulfillment, that of Euphemus and yours, mighty Periclymenus. And from Apollo came the master lyrist, father of songs, renowned Orpheus. Hermes goldenwand sent his twin sons to unceasing labor on the quest, Echion and Erytus, flushed with youth. And quickly came those who dwelt at the base of Mount Pangaeus: for willingly with jo
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): poem 4
ue of lucid voice, but has learned to hate the violent, not clashing with the noble or drawing out the end of any action. Brief is the span, for men, of opportunity. He knows it well; like an attendant, not a drudge, he follows it. They say this is the sharpest pain: to recognize the good but stand outside it by compulsion. Truly, that man is even now, like Atlas, wresting with the sky apart from fatherland apart from property. But Zeus eternal freed the Titans; in passing time, as winds subside, comes change of sails. But he prays, when he's exhausted this accursed affliction, to see his home one day, and by the fountain of Apollo, joining the symposia, to throw his heart into the joys of youth, and clasping the richly ornate lyre among his songwise citizens, to grasp peace, working harm to none nor suffering it from his countrymen; and he could tell, Archesilaus, what fountain of ambrosial verse he found when recently a guest at Thebes.
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