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God of Delos, may the choruses of the Ceans warm your heart, and may you grant god-sent noble fortune.
Ode 18 (Dithyramb 4)
Theseus [for the Athenians]
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[Chorus]
King of sacred Athens, lord of the luxuriously-living Ionians, why has the bronze-belled trumpet just now sounded a war song?
Does some enemy of our land beset our borders, leading an army? Or are evil-plotting robbers, against the will of the shepherds,
rustling our flocks of sheep by force? What is it that tears your heart? Speak; for I think that you of all mortals have the aid of valiant young men at your disposal,
son of Pandion and Creusa.
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[Aegeus]
Just now a herald arrived, having come by foot on the long road from the Isthmus. He tells of the indescribable deeds of a mighty man. That man killed overweening
Sinis, who was the greatest of mortals in strength; he is the son of Lytaeus the Earthshaker, son of Cronus. And he has slain the man-killing boar in the valleys of Cremmyon, and reckless
Sciron. He has closed the wrestling school of Cercyon; Procoptes has met a better man and dropped the powerful hammer of Polypemon.
I fear how this will end.
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[Chorus]
Who is the man said to be, and from where? How is he equipped? Is he leading a great army with weapons of war?
Or does he come alone with only his attendants, like a traveller wandering among foreign people, this man who is so strong, valiant, and bold, who has overcome the powerful strength
of such great men? Indeed a god impels him, so that he can bring justice down on the unjust; for it is not easy to accomplish deed after deed and not meet with evil.
In the long course of time all things come to an end.

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