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Ode 15 (Dithyramb 1) The Sons of Antenor, or The Demand for Helen's Return
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The [wife] of godlike [Antenor], priestess of Athena
of battle-rousing Pallas
golden
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of the Argives, to Odysseus [son of
Laertes ] and Menelaus, the royal son of Atreus, [deep]-waisted Theano
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spoke
well-built
with the gods
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heart [at midnight]
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led
and their father, the wise hero, made the whole speech of the Achaeans known to king Priam and his sons.
Then heralds rushed through the broad town and brought together the ranks of the Trojans
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into the assembly-place of the army. Loud rumor ran everywhere;
and raising their hands to the immortal gods, they prayed for an end to their griefs. Muse, who was the first to begin the words of justice? Menelaus son of Pleisthenes spoke with enchanting words and voice, having conferred with the Graces with beautiful robes:
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Battle-loving Trojans: Zeus, the ruler on high who sees all, is not to blame for the great woes of mortals; all men have a chance to reach unswerving Justice, the attendant of holy
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Eunomia and prudent Themis. Prosperous are they whose children take Justice to live with them.
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But shameless Hybris, flourishing with shifty greed and lawless empty-headedness, who will swiftly bestow on a man someone else's wealth and power,
and then send him into deep ruin—Hybris destroyed the arrogant sons of the Earth, the Giants.
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Dithyrambs. Bacchylides. Diane Arnson Svarlien (Translator). New Haven, CT. 1996.
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