Ode 6 Λάχωνι Κεῖῳ Παιδί Σταδίει Ολύμπια

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Λάχων Διὸς μεγίστου

λάχε φέρτατον πόδεσσι

κῦδος ἐπʼ Ἀλφ εοῦ προχοαῖσ[ι νικῶν,

διʼ ὅσσα πάροιθεν

ἀμπελοτρόφον Κέον

ἄεισάν ποτʼ Ὀλυμπίᾳ

πύξ τε καὶ στάδιον κρατεῦ-

σαν] στεφάνοις ἐθείρας

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νεανίαι βρύοντες.

σὲ δὲ νῦν ἀναξιμόλπου

Οὐρανίας ὕμνος ἕκατι νίκ[ας

Ἀριστομένειον

ὦ ποδάνεμον τέκος,

γεραίρει προδόμοις ἀοι-

δαῖς, ὅτι στάδιον κρατή-

σας Κέον εὐκλέϊξας.

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.)

Translations (1)

Epinicians Perseus (Bacchylides. Odes. Svarlien, Diane Arnson, translator. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Medford, MA: Perseus Digital Library, 1996.) — 6 focus

Ode 6 For Lachon of Ceos [Boys'] Foot Race at Olympia 452 B. C.

Lachon has won from greatest Zeus the best glory with his feet by the streams of the Alpheus [the victories] through which before

Ceos rich in vines has been sung at Olympia as victorious in boxing and the foot race, by young men, luxuriant

with garlands in their hair.

And now by the will of Victory, the hymn of Ourania, ruler of song, honors you, wind-footed son of Aristomenes, in songs before your house,

since by your triumph in the foot race you brought glory to Ceos.

Bacchylides Epinicians 6

ed. Richard C. Jebb

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