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    Pindar, Odes

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    Nemean 7 SÔGENEI AIGINÊTÊi PAIDI PENTATHLÔi

    Eleithuia, paredre Moiran bathuphronôn,
    pai megalostheneos, akouson, Hêras, geneteira teknôn: aneu sethen
    ou phaos, ou melainan drakentes euphronan
    tean adelphean elachomen aglaoguion Hêban.
    5
    anapneomen d' ouch hapantes epi isa:
    eirgei de potmôi zugenth' heteron hetera. sun de tin
    [10] kai pais ho Theariônos aretai kritheis
    eudoxos aeidetai Sôgenês meta pentaethlois.
    polin gar philomolpon oikei doriktupôn
    10
    Aiakidan: mala d' ethelonti sumpeiron agôniai thumon amphepein.
    ei de tuchêi tis erdôn, meliphron' aitian
    rhoaisi Moisan enebale: tai megalai gar alkai
    skoton polun humnôn echonti deomenai:
    [20] ergois de kalois esoptron isamen heni sun tropôi,
    15
    ei Mnamosunas hekati liparampukos
    heurêtai apoina mochthôn klutais epeôn aoidais.
    sophoi de mellonta+ tritaion+ anemon+
    emathon+, oud'+ hupo+ kerdei+ blaben+:
    aphneos penichros te thanatou peras
    20
    hama neontai. egô de pleon' elpomai
    [30] logon Odusseos ê pathan dia ton haduepê genesth' Homêron:
    epei pseudesi hoi potanai machanai
    semnon epesti ti: sophia de kleptei paragoisa muthois: tuphlon d' echei
    êtor homilos andrôn ho pleistos. ei gar ên
    25
    he tan alatheian idemen, ou ken hoplôn cholôtheis
    ho karteros Aias epaxe dia phrenôn
    [40] leuron xiphos: hon kratiston Achileos ater machai
    xanthôi Menelai damarta komisai thoais
    en nausi poreusan euthupnoou Zephuroio pompai
    30
    pros Ilou polin. alla koinon gar erchetai
    kum' Aïda, pese d' adokêton en kai dokeonta: tima de ginetai
    hôn theos habron auxei logon tethnakotôn
    boathoôn, toi para megan omphalon eurukolpou
    [50] molon chthonos: en Puthioisi de dapedois
    35
    keitai, Priamou polin Neoptolemos epei prathen,
    tai kai Danaoi ponêsan: ho d' apopleôn
    Skurou men hamarte, planchthentes d' eis Ephuran hikonto:
    Molossiai d' embasileuen oligon
    chronon: atar genos aiei pheren
    40
    touto hoi geras. ôicheto de pros theon,
    [60] ktean' agôn Trôïathen akrothiniôn:
    hina kreôn nin huper machas elasen antituchont' anêr machairai.
    barunthen de perissa Delphoi xenagetai.
    alla to morsimon apedôken: echrên de tin' endon alsei palaitatôi
    45
    Aiakidan kreontôn to loipon emmenai
    theou par' euteichea domon, hêrôïais de pompais
    themiskopon oikein eonta poluthutois.
    [70] euônumon es dikan tria epea diarkesei:
    ou pseudis ho martus ergmasin epistatei,
    50
    Aigina, teôn Dios t' ekgonôn. thrasu moi tod' eipein
    phaennais aretais hodon kurian logôn
    oikothen: alla gar anapausis en panti glukeia ergôi: koron d' echei
    kai meli kai ta terpn' anthe' Aphrodisia.
    [80] phuai d' hekastos diapheromen biotan lachontes,
    55
    ho men ta, ta d' alloi: tuchein d' hen' adunaton
    eudaimonian hapasan anelomenon: ouk echô
    eipein, tini touto Moira telos empedon
    ôrexe. Theariôn, tin d' eoikota kairon olbou
    didôsi, tolman te kalôn aromenôi
    60
    sunesin ouk apoblaptei phrenôn.
    [90] xeinos eimi+: skoteinon apechôn psogon,
    hudatos hôte rhoas philon es andr' agôn
    kleos etêtumon ainesô: potiphoros d' agathoisi misthos houtos.
    eôn d' engus Achaios ou mempsetai m' anêr
    65
    Ionias huper halos oikeôn: proxeniai pepoith': en te damotais
    ommati derkomai lampron, ouch huperbalôn,
    biaia pant' ek podos erusais, ho de loipos euphrôn
    [100] poti chronos herpoi. mathôn de tis anerei,
    ei par melos erchomai psagion oaron ennepôn.
    70
    Euxenida patrathe Sôgenes, apomnuô
    mê terma probas akonth' hôte chalkoparaion orsai
    thoan glôssan, hos exepempsen palaismatôn
    auchena kai sthenos adianton, aithôni prin haliôi guion empesein.
    ei ponos ên, to terpnon pleon pederchetai.
    75
    [110] ea me: nikônti+ ge charin, ei ti peran aertheis
    anekragon, ou trachus+ eimi katathemen+.
    eirein stephanous elaphron: anabaleo: Moisa toi
    kollai chruson en te leukon elephanth' hamai
    kai leirion anthemon pontias huphelois' eersas.
    80
    Dios de memnamenos amphi Nemeai
    poluphaton throon humnôn donei
    [120] hêsuchai. basilêa de theôn prepei
    dapedon an tode garuemen hamerai
    opi: legonti gar Aiakon nin hupo matrodokois gonais phuteusai,
    85
    emai men poliarchon euônumôi patrai,
    Hêraklees, seo de propraon' emen xeinon adelpheon t'. ei de geuetai
    andros anêr ti, phaimen ke geiton' emmenai
    [130] noôi philêsant' ateneï geitoni charma pantôn
    epaxion: ei d' auto kai theos anechoi,
    90
    en tin k' etheloi, Gigantas hos edamasas, eutuchôs
    naiein patri Sôgenês atalon amphepôn
    thumon progonôn eüktêmona zathean aguian:
    epei tetraoroisin hôth' harmatôn zugois
    en temenessi domon echei teois, amphoteras iôn cheiros. ô makar,
    95
    [140] tin d' epeoiken Hêras posin te peithemen
    koran te Glaukôpida: dunasai de brotoisin alkan
    amachanian dusbatôn thama didomen.
    ei gar sphisin empedosthenea bioton harmosais
    hêbai liparôi te gêraï diaplekois
    100
    eudaimon' eonta, paidôn de paides echoien aiei
    [150] geras to per nun kai areion opithen.
    to d' emon ou pote phasei kear
    atropoisi Neoptolemon helkusai
    epesi: tauta de tris tetraki t' ampolein
    105
    aporia telethei, teknoisin hate mapsulakas, “Dios Korinthos.”

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    Cross references from Perseus Encyclopedia:
    thucydides [Thucydides and Homer]

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    480

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
    * [668-719: First stasimon]: eurukolpou ... chthonos
    * [1-116: Prologue]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
    * [806-943]

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

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
    * [1098-1383]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [1218-1471]
    * [1-134]
    * [1081-1217]
    * [1081-1217]
    * [1-134]

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

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    11, 543 [Book 11 (l)]
    4, 210 [Book 4 (d)]

    Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    13, 197 [Book 13 (N)]
    22, 66 [Book 22 (Ch)]

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    * [Ideal Head of Homer. (Sans Souci Palace, Potsdam.)]

    Cross references from Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes:
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Epode 3]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Epode 1]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Antistrophe 2]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Dialect]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Strophe 4]
    * [Antistrophe 2]
    * [Pythian Odes]

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