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

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

and much envied among men. You have adorned with garlands [the son] of Aristomenes, Lachon ¹

Epinicians. Bacchylides. Diane Arnson Svarlien (Translator). New Haven, CT. 1996.

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Epinicians (English) (Bacchylides. Odes. Svarlien, Diane Arnson, translator. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Medford, MA: Perseus Digital Library, 1996.)

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Ἐπίνικοι Perseus (Bacchylides. The Poems and Fragments. Jebb, Richard C., editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1905.) — 7 focus

Ode 7 Τῷ Αὐτῷ

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ὦ λιπαρὰ θύγατερ Χρόνου τε κ[αὶ

Νυκτός, σὲ πεντήκοντα μηνῶν ἁμέραν

ἑκκαιδεκάταν ἐν Ὀλυμπ[ίᾳ ˘¯

!!!]β̣αρυβρ[!!!!!!!!!!!!!] ἕκατι

!!!]ι̣τοσαιμα̣[

κρίνειν τα[χυτᾶτά τε] λαιψηρῶν ποδῶν

Ἕλλασι καὶ γυίων ἀρισταλκὲς σθένος·

ᾧ δὲ σὺ πρεσβύτατον νείμῃς γέρας

νίκας ἐπʼ ἀνθρώποισιν εὔδοξος κέκλη-

ται καὶ πολυζήλωτος. Ἀρ[ιστομένει]ον

νῦν γ]ʼ ἐκόσμη[σας στε]φάν[οισι Λάχω]να

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Epinicians

1. The rest is fragmentary.

Bacchylides Epinicians 7

Diane Arnson Svarlien (Translator)

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