Ode 4 Τῷ Αὐτῷ Ἵπποις Πύθια.

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ἔτι Συρακοσίαν φιλεῖ

πόλιν ὁ χρυσοκόμας Ἀπόλλων,

ἀστύθεμίν θʼ Ἱέρωνα γεραίρει·

τρίτον γὰρ παρʼ ὀμφα]λὸν ὑψιδείρου χθονὸς

Πυθιόνικ[ος ἀείδε]ται

ὠκυπόδ[ων ἀρετᾶ] σὺν ἵππων.

έ̣[!!!!] ἁδυεπὴς ἀ[να-

ξιφόρ]μιγγος Ουρ[αν]ίας ἀλέκτωρ

!!!!!!]εν· ἀλλʼ ἑκ[όν]τι νόῳ,

!!!!!ο]υς ἐπέσεισ̣εν ὕμνους

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ἔτι δὲ τέ]τρατον εἴ τις ορ-

!!!!!!!]εἵλκε Δίκ]ας τάλαν[τον

Δεινομέν εό ς κʼ ἐγερα[ίρο]μεν υἱόν.

πάρεστίν νιν ἀγχιάλοισ[ι Κρίσ]ας μυχοῖς

μοῦνον ἐπιχθονίων τάδε

μησάμενον στεφάνοις ἐρέπτειν

δύο τʼ Ὀλυμπιονίκας

ἀείδειν. τί φέρτερον ἢ θεοῖσιν

φίλον ἐόντα παντο[δα]πῶν

λαγχάνειν ἄπο μοῖρα[ν ἐσ]θλῶν;

Epinicians. Bacchylides. ed. Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. 1905.

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Ἐπίνικοι (Greek) (Bacchylides. The Poems and Fragments. Jebb, Richard C., editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1905.)

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Epinicians Perseus (Bacchylides. Odes. Svarlien, Diane Arnson, translator. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Medford, MA: Perseus Digital Library, 1996.) — 4 focus

Ode 4 For Hieron of Syracuse Chariot Race at Delphi 470 B. C.

Golden-haired Apollo still loves the state of Syracuse and honors Hieron, the city's lawful ruler. For his praises are sung as a Pythian victor for a third time beside the navel of the high-ridged land,

through the excellence of his swift-footed horses. Ourania's sweet-voiced cockerel, ruler of the lyre but with willing mind

showered with hymns.

And yet a fourth time we would be honoring the son of Deinomenes if some held the scales of Justice

he can be crowned with garlands, as the only man on earth who has accomplished this in the vale of Cirrha by the sea; and he has two Olympian victories to sing of as well. What is better than to be loved by the gods

and to be granted a share of every kind of noble deed?

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Epinicians

1. Column 6

Bacchylides Epinicians 4

ed. Richard C. Jebb

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