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Bacchylides, Epinicians (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien),
Ode 5
For Hieron of Syracuse
Single-horse victory at Olympia
476 B. C.
(search)
Ode 8
For Liparion of Ceos?
The text of str. 1 is fragmentary.
singing the praises of sheep-sacrificing Pytho, and Nemea and the Isthmus. I will make my boast, laying my hand on the earth— every debt of praise shines in the light of truth—no Greek, boy or man, has won more victories in his age-group. Zeus, whose spear is the thunderbolt, by the banks of the silver-whirling Alpheus may you also fulfill his prayers for great god-given glory, and place on his head a gray-green wreath of Aetolian olive in the famous games of Phrygian Pelops.
Bacchylides, Epinicians (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien),
Ode 12
For Teisias of Aegina
Wrestling at Nemea
Date unknown
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Ode 12
For Teisias of Aegina
Wrestling at Nemea
Date unknown
Like a skillful helmsman, Clio, mistress of song, guide my thoughts now in a straight course, if you ever did before. For to the prosperous island of Aegina queenly Victory commands me to go, to my hospitable friends, and adorn the god-built city
and the strong-limbed wrestling at Nemea
lines 9-32 are lost.
friend in the competitions of the neighboring people. They were honored with celebrations for thirty splendid victories, some in [Pytho,]
others in the neck of Pelops' holy island, full of pine, others in the precinct of Nemean Zeus, god of brilliant lightning flashes these and at the silver-whirling [Alpheus?]
Demosthenes, On the Halonnesus, section 20 (search)
Why, the ambassadors themselves, whom your resolution
flatly contradicted, when you read them your answer and offered them
hospitality, did not venture to come forward and say, “You
misrepresent us, men of Athens; you
say we have said something that we never did say.” No; they held their
tongues and took their leave. But I want, men of Athens—for Pytho, who was one of the ambassadors, made an
excellent impression on you by his address—I want to recall to you the
exact words he used, for I am sure you must remembe
Demosthenes, On the Halonnesus, section 22 (search)
Pytho therefore urged public
speakers not to attack the peace, because it was not good policy to rescind it,
but to amend any unsatisfactory clause, on the understanding that Philip was
prepared to fall in with your suggestions. If, however, the speakers confined
themselves to abusing Philip without drafting any proposals which, while
preserving the terms of peace, might clear Philip of suspicion, he asked you to
pay no attention to such fellows.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 136 (search)
We are
told that the Scythian Anacharsis, who took great pride in his wisdom, once came to Pytho and inquired of the oracle who of the Greeks was wiser
than he. And the oracle replied:
A man of Oeta, Myson, they report,
Is more endowed than thou with prudent brains.
Myson was a Malian and had his home on Mt. Oeta in a village called Chenae.Const. Exc. 4, pp. 281-283.
When Chilon came to Delphi he thought to dedicate to the god the firstlings, as it
were, of his own wisdom, and engraved upon a column these three maxims: "Know thyself";
"Nothing overmuch"; and the third, "A pledge, and ruin is nigh." Each of these maxims, though
short and laconic,Chilon was a Spartan (Laconian) ephor in 556
B.C. displays deep reflection. For the maxim "Know
thyself" exhorts us to become educated and to get prudence, it being only by these means that a
on with contracts and with agreements on other matters, all of which are concerned
with money. As Euripides says:
No pledge I give, observing well the loss
Which those incur who of the pledge are fond;
And writings there at Pytho say me nay.
Eur. fr. 923 [Nauck(2)]
But some also say that it is
not the meaning of Chilon nor is it the act of a good
citizen, not to come to the aid of a friend when he needs help of this kind; but rather that he
advise
Euripides, Andromache (ed. David Kovacs), line 26 (search)
Before the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. The sun is about to rise. Hermes enters.
Hermes
Atlas, who wears away heaven, the ancient home of the gods, on his bronze shoulders, was the father of Maia by a goddess; she bore me, Hermes, to great Zeus; and I am the gods' servant. I have come to Delphi, this land where Phoebus from his central throne chants to mortals, always declaring the present and the future.
For Hellas has a famous city, which received its name from Pallas of the golden lance; here Apollo forced a union on Creusa, the child of Erechtheus, where the rocks, turned to the north beneath the hill of Pallas' Athenian land, are called Macrai by the lords of Attica. Unknown to her father —such was the pleasure of the god— she bore the weight in her womb. When the time came, Creusa gave birth in the house to a child, and brought the infant to the same cave where the god had bedded her, and there exposed him to die in the round circle of a hollow cradle, observant of the custo