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Epinicians (12.35-13.75)

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in the competitions of the neighboring people. They were honored with celebrations for thirty splendid victories, some in [ Pytho,]
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others in the neck of Pelops' holy island, full of pine,
others in the precinct of Nemean Zeus, god of brilliant lightning flashes ⋯ these ⋯ and at the silver-whirling [Alpheus?] ⋯
Ode 13
For Pytheas of Aegina Pancratium at Nemea ? 483 B. C.
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He shall stop them from arrogant violence, bringing about judgments of law for mortals:
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look how the descendant of Perseus brings his hand down heavily on the neck of the bloodthirsty lion with every type of skill!
For the gleaming, man-subduing bronze refuses to pierce the lion's fearsome body; the sword was bent back. Someday, I prophesy,
[in this place] there will be a strenuous toil for the Greeks, competing for garlands in the pancratium.
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⋯ beside the altar of Zeus, the greatest ruler, the blossoms of glory-bringing Victory
nurture for men golden, conspicuous fame throughout their lives—for a select few—and when the dark cloud of death covers them,
the undying glory of their fine deed is left behind, secure in its destiny.
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You too have attained this at Nemea, son of Lampon;
your hair crowned with garlands of flourishing blossoms, [you walk] the lofty streets of the city [of Aeacus, so that] your ancestral island [teems] with gentle-voiced victory processions, in which mortals delight,
revealing your overweening strength in the pancratium. Kindly Aegina, daughter of the whirling river,

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