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  • Olympian Odes
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    Pindar, Odes

    Nemean Odes

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    Nemean 5 PUTHEAi AIGINÊTÊi AGENEIÔi PANKRATIASTÊi

    ouk andriantopoios eim', hôst' elinusonta ergazesthai agalmat' ep' autas bathmidos
    hestaot': all' epi pasas holkados en t' akatôi, glukei' aoida,
    steich' ap' Aiginas, diangellois', hoti
    Lampônos huios Putheas eurusthenês
    5
    nikê Nemeiois pankratiou stephanon,
    [10] oupô genusi phainôn tereinan mater' oinanthas opôran,
    ek de Kronou kai Zênos hêrôas aichmatas phuteuthentas kai apo chrusean Nêrêïdôn
    Aiakidas egerairen matropolin te+, philan xenôn arouran:
    tan pot' euandron te kai nausiklutan
    10
    thessanto par bômon pateros Hellaniou
    [20] stantes, pitnan t' eis aithera cheiras hamai
    Endaïdos arignôtes huioi kai bia Phôkou kreontos,
    ho tas theou, hon Psamatheia tikt' epi rhêgmini pontou.
    aideomai mega eipein en dikai te mê kekinduneumenon,
    15
    pôs dê lipon euklea nason, kai tis andras alkimous
    [30] daimôn ap' Oinônas elasen. stasomai: ou toi hapasa kerdiôn
    phainoisa prosôpon alathei' atrekês:
    kai to sigan pollakis esti sophôtaton anthrôpôi noêsai.
    ei d' olbon ê cheirôn bian ê sidaritan epainêsai polemon dedokêtai, makra moi
    20
    autothen halmath' huposkaptoi tis: echô gonatôn elaphron horman:
    [40] kai peran pontoio pallont' aietoi.
    prophrôn de kai keinois aeid' en Paliôi
    Moisan ho kallistos choros, en de mesais
    phorming' Apollôn heptaglôsson chruseôi plaktrôi diôkôn
    25
    hageito pantoiôn nomôn: hai de prôtiston men humnêsan Dios archomenai semnan Thetin
    Pêlea th', hôs te nin habra Krêtheïs Hippoluta dolôi pedasai
    [50] êthele xunana Magnêtôn skopon
    peisais' akoitan poikilois bouleumasin,
    pseustan de poiêton sunepaxe logon,
    30
    hôs ara numpheias epeira keinos en lektrois Akastou
    eunas. to d' enantion esken: polla gar nin panti thumôi
    parphamena litaneuen: tou de organ knizon aipeinoi logoi:
    [60] euthus d' apananato numphan, xeiniou patros cholon
    deisais: ho d' ephrasthê kateneusen te hoi orsinephês ex ouranou
    35
    Zeus athanatôn basileus, hôst' en tachei
    pontian chrusalakatôn tina Nêreïdôn praxein akoitin,
    gambron Poseidaôna peisais, hos Aigathen poti kleitan thama nissetai Isthmon Dôrian:
    [70] entha min euphrones ilai sun kalamoio boai theon dekontai,
    kai sthenei guiôn erizonti thrasei.
    40
    potmos+ de krinei sungenês ergôn peri
    pantôn. tu d' Aiginathe dis, Euthumenes,
    Nikas en ankônessi pitnôn poikilôn epsausas humnôn.
    [80] êtoi metaïxanta kai nun teos matrôs agallei keinou homosporon ethnos, Puthea.
    ha Nemea men araren meis t' epichôrios, hon philês' Apollôn:
    45
    halikas d' elthontas oikoi t' ekrateis
    Nisou t' en euankei lophôi. chairô d', hoti
    esloisi marnatai peri pasa polis.
    isthi, glukeian toi Menandrou sun tuchai mochthôn amoiban
    [90] epaureo: chrê d' ap' Athanan tekton' athlêtaisin emmen.
    50
    ei de Themistion hikeis, hôst' aeidein, mêketi rhigei: didoi
    phônan, ana d' histia teinon pros zugon karchasiou,
    puktan te nin kai pankratiôi phthenxai helein Epidaurôi diploan
    nikônt' aretan, prothuroisin d' Aiakou
    antheôn poiaenta phere stephanômata sun xanthais Charissin.

    There are a total of 36 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Perseus Encyclopedia:
    bacchylides [Life and Career]

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    1300-1302

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
    * [1223-1420]

    Cross references from Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns:
    * [HYMN TO APOLLO]

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    endeis [Endēïs]
    fig.01166 [Wrestlers in the Pancratium. (Krause, Gymnastik.)]

    Cross references from Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes:
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Antistrophe 2]
    * [Epode 4]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Strophe 1]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [His style]: orsinephês
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Epode 1]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Epode 2]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Olympian Odes]

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    Pindar. The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937.
    OCLC: 2519477
    ISBN: 0674995643, 0674995341

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