Dithyrambs (19.37-20.10)

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For me, the most secure [path?] is the one which ⋯ when she arrived at the flowery banks

of the Nile, [gadfly-driven] Io, bearing the child ⋯ Epaphus. There [she bore him?] ⋯ ruler over linen-robed ⋯ teeming with majestic ⋯

and greatest ⋯ mortal ⋯ from this race Cadmus, son of Agenor, begat Semele in seven-gated Thebes, and she bore the rouser of Bacchants,

Dionysus, the ⋯ and [lord of] garland-[bearing] choruses.

Ode 20 (Dithyramb 6)

Idas: for the Lacedaemonians

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Once in [spacious] Sparta the golden-haired Lacedaemonian ⋯ such a song ⋯ when

bold-hearted [Idas] led ⋯ Marpessa, the maiden with lovely [cheeks], fleeing ⋯ of death ⋯ Poseidon, the lord of the sea ⋯

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and to him horses [swift as the wind]

to well-built Pleuron, the son of [Ares] with golden shield ⋯ [*]