Pindar in English Rhyme Being An Attempt to Render the Epinikian Odes With the
Pindar in English Rhyme Being An Attempt to Render the Epinikian Odes With the
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Perfectly My son, my own Alkmaion, stand Wielding, displayed on sanguine shield. His spotted dragon next to Kadmus' gates I see. And he Avho bore Defeat and loss in that ill-omened siege of yore, The hero-king Adrastus, now the message meets Of less unlucky birds, though sorrowing Shall fill his home. For only he Of all the Danaan host once more Shall come to Abas' spacious streets With all his people safe, for so the gods decree, Bearing along The melancholy way The bones of his dead son. " So... spake Amphiaraiis. I 153 Myself Alkmaion joy with wreaths t' adorn, Sprinkhng his tomb with copious song. For he anigh My homestead dwells, and all that I have won He guards, and passing by. When to the theme of song Earth's centre-spot I went, his art inborn Of prophecy he put in play. And thou, O god Whose arrows fly afar, whose glorious abode In Pytho's dells All comers welcomes, thought'st it meet There to confer the prize that all excels. And in his island home before Thou at thy feast hast once bestowed The envied name of pentathlete On him.
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