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Ode 12 For Teisias of Aegina Wrestling at Nemea Date unknown
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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
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island of Aegina queenly Victory commands me to go, to my hospitable friends, and adorn the god-built city
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friend
in the competitions of the neighboring people. They were honored with celebrations for thirty splendid victories, some in [
Pytho
,]
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others in the neck of Pelops' holy island, full of pine,
others in the precinct of Nemean Zeus, god of brilliant lightning flashes
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and at the silver-whirling [Alpheus?]
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Epinicians. Bacchylides. Diane Arnson Svarlien (Translator). New Haven, CT. 1996.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.