Scaife ATLAS

Epinicians (5.50-5.60)

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0199.tlg001.perseus-eng2:5.50-5.60

Refs	`{'start': {'reference': '5.50', 'human_reference': 'Poem 5 Line 50'}, 'end': {'reference': '5.60', 'human_reference': 'Poem 5 Line 60'}}`
Ancestors	`[{'reference': '5'}]`
Children	`[]`

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Prosperous is he to whom a god has given a share of fine things, and a rich life to live out with enviable luck. For no man on earth

was born to be fortunate in everything.

So it was, they say, that the gate-destroying unconquerable son [*] of Zeus of the flashing thunderbolt went down to the halls of slender-ankled Persephone

to bring up into the light from Hades the razor-toothed dog, [*] son of the fearsome Echidna. There he saw the souls of miserable mortals by the streams of Cocytus,

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