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Ode 7
For Lachon of Ceos [Boys'] Foot Race at Olympia 452 B. C.

Shining daughter of Time and Night, the fifty [months have brought] you, sixteenth day of the month at Olympia ... by the will of ... [5] ... to judge the speed of swift feet and preeminence in strength of limbs among the Greeks. The one to whom you give the most distinguished honor of victory is called glorious [10] and much envied among men. You have adorned with garlands [the son] of Aristomenes, Lachon ... 1

1 The rest is fragmentary.

Bacchylides. Diane Arnson Svarlien. Odes. 1991.

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