Search the Perseus Catalog for:

← Previous Next →

Ode 16 [Ἡρακλῆς]

str. 1

Πυθ]ίου [ἔπʼ εἶμʼ], ἐπεὶ

ὁλκ]άδʼ ἔπεμψεν ἐμοὶ χρυσέαν

Πιερ]ίαθε[ν ἐΰθ]ρονος Οὐρανία,

πολυφ]άτων γέμουσαν ὕμνων

!!!!!]ν̣ εἴτʼ ἄρʼ ἐπʼ ἀνθεμόεντι Ἕβρῳ

!!!!! ἀ]γάλλεται ἢ δολιχαύχενι κύκνῳ,

ὀπὶ ἁ]δεΐᾳ φρένα τερπόμενος,

!!!!!!]δʼ ἵκῃ παιηόνων

ἄνθεα πεδοιχνεῖν,

Πύθιʼ Ἄπολλον,

τόσα χοροὶ Δελφῶν

σὸν κελάδησαν παρʼ ἀγακλέα ναόν.

ant. 1

πρίν γε κλέομεν λιπεῖν

Οἰχαλίαν πυρὶ δαπτομέναν

Ἀμφιτρυωνιάδαν θρασυμηδέα φῶ-

θʼ, ἵκετο δʼ ἀμφικύμονʼ ἀκτάν·

ἔνθʼ ἀπὸ λαΐδος εὐρυνεφεῖ Κηναίῳ

Ζηνὶ θύεν βαρυαχέας ἐννέα ταύρους

δύο τʼ ὀρσιάλῳ δαμασίχθονι μέλ-

λε κόρᾳ τʼ ὀβριμοδερκεῖ ἄζυγα

παρθένῳ Ἀθάνᾳ

ὑψικέραν βοῦν.

τότʼ ἄμαχος δαίμων

Δαϊανείρᾳ πολύδακρυν ὕφανε

ep. 1

μῆτιν ἐπίφρονʼ, ἐπεὶ

πύθετʼ ἀγγελίαν ταλαπενθέα,

Ἰόλαν ὅτι λευκώλενον

Διὸς υἱὸς ἀταρβομάχας

ἄλοχον λιπαρὸ[ν π]οτὶ δόμον πέμποι.

ἆ δύσμορος, ἆ τάλαινʼ, οἷον ἐμήσατο·

φθόνος εὐρυβίας νιν ἀπώλεσεν,

δνόφεόν τε κάλυμμα τῶν

ὕστερον ἐρχομένων,

ὅτʼ ἐπὶ ῥοδόεντι Λυκόρμᾳ

δέξατο Νέσσου πάρα δαιμόνιον τέρ[ας.

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

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.

Current edition Perseus

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

Translations (1)

Dithyrambs Perseus (Bacchylides. Odes. Svarlien, Diane Arnson, translator. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Medford, MA: Perseus Digital Library, 1996.) — 16 focus

Ode 16 (Dithyramb 2) [Heracles (or Deianeira?), for the Delphians]

since Ourania on her lovely throne has sent me from Pieria a golden freighter loaded with glorious songs

by the flowery Hebrus he takes delight in , or in a long-necked swan delighting his mind you come to seek the flowers of paeans,

Pythian Apollo, all those which choruses of Delphians loudly sing at your glorious temple.

Meanwhile we sing of how the son of Amphitryon, a bold-minded man, left Oechalia devoured by fire,

and arrived at the headland with waves all around it; there he was going to sacrifice from his booty nine loud-bellowing bulls for Cenaean Zeus, lord of the wide-spread clouds, and two for the god who rouses the sea and subdues the earth,

and a high-horned unyoked ox for the virgin Athena, whose eyes flash with might. Then a god, useless to fight against, wove for Deianeira, to her great sorrow,

1 25

a clever scheme, when she heard the bitter news that the son of Zeus, fearless in battle, was sending white-armed Iole to his splendid house to be his bride.

Poor woman, ill-fated, what a plan she devised! Widely powerful envy destroyed her, and the dark veil which covered what was to come, when on the rosy banks of the Lycormas

she received from Nessus the fateful, monstrous gift.

Notes on the current edition

Dithyrambs

1. Column 32

Bacchylides Dithyrambs 16

ed. Richard C. Jebb

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Ode 16 [Ἡρακλῆς]

Current edition Perseus

Ode 16 (Dithyramb 2) [Heracles (or Deianeira?), for the Delphians]

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers