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Epinicians (9.30-9.79)

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In such a way, amid the vast circling crowd of the Greeks, did he display his marvellous body, hurling the wheel-shaped discus, and raise a shout from the people as he flung the shaft of the dark-leaved elder-tree
from his hand into the steep sky.
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He executed the flashing movement of wrestling, and brought strong-limbed bodies down to the earth with such high-spirited strength, then returned to the dark-whirling waters of the Asopus,
whose fame has reached every land, even the farthest reaches of the Nile. And the women skilled with the spear who live by the fair-flowing stream of Thermodon, daughters of horse-driving Ares,
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have met with your descendants, much-envied lord of rivers, and so has Troy, the city of high gates. Countless reports of your offspring tread wide paths everywhere, of your daughters
with shining belts, whom the gods established, with good fortune, as founders of cities that were never to be sacked.
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Who does not know the well-built city of dark-haired Thebes,
or renowned Aegina, who went to the bed of great Zeus and bore the hero ⋯ who ⋯ the land of the Achaeans ⋯ trials ⋯
⋯ with beautiful robe ⋯
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and Peirene with her twisted garland, and as many other
honorable daughters of the ancient resounding river who were overcome in the glorifying beds of gods. ⋯ city ⋯ victory ⋯ the cries of flutes ⋯
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⋯ to speak well of golden, violet-haired Cypris, the glorious mother of unbending passions for mortals
⋯ hymn ⋯
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⋯ even for one who is dead

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