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    Pindar, Odes

    Pythian Odes

    Editions and translations: Greek | English | English (ed. Steven J. Willett)
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    Pythian 6 For Xenocrates of Acragas Chariot Race 490 B. C.

    [1] Listen! for we are again ploughing the field of dark-eyed Aphrodite, or of the Graces, as we approach the sacred navel of the loud-roaring land; [5] where, for the prosperous Emmenids and Acragas on the river, and especially for Xenocrates, a Pythian victor's treasure-house of songs has been built and is ready in the glen of Apollo, rich in gold. [10][10] It is buffeted by neither the invading onset of winter rain, the loud-roaring cloud's pitiless army, nor the wind that sweeps all kinds of rubble into the depths of the sea. Its facade, shining in pure light, [15] will announce your chariot victory to the speech of men and make it famous--the victory you share with your father and your race, Thrasybulus, won in the vales of Crisa. [19] You keep it on your right hand and [20] uphold the commandment, one of the precepts which they say once in the mountains the son of Philyra enjoined on the powerful son of Peleus, when he was separated from his parents: first of the gods, worship the son of Cronus, the loud-voiced ruler of lightning and thunder; [25] and never deprive your parents of such honor during their allotted lifetime. [28] Long ago, too, powerful Antilochus showed that he had this way of thinking; [30] he died for his father's sake, by awaiting the man-slaying commander of the Ethiopians, Memnon. For the horse kept Nestor's chariot from moving, since it had been wounded by Paris' arrows; and Memnon was aiming his strong spear. [35] The old man of Messene, his mind reeling, shouted to his son; [37] the cry he hurled did not fall to the ground; his god-like son stayed on the spot and paid for his father's rescue with his own life, [40] and because he accomplished this tremendous deed he seemed to the younger men to be the greatest man of his time in excellence towards his parents. These things are past. Of men alive today, Thrasybulus [45] more than anyone has approached his father' s standard, [46] and he rivals his father's brother in every splendor. He manages his wealth with intelligence, reaping not an unjust or arrogant youth, but the wisdom found in the quiet haunts of the Pierian Muses. [50] Earth-shaking Poseidon, he is devoted to you, who rule over horse-races, and his thoughts are pleasing to you. His sweet temperament, when he associates with his drinking companions, surpasses even the bee's intricate honeycomb.


    There are a total of 38 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes:
    poem 6 (general note)
    poem 6, line 1 (general note)
    poem 6, line 1: akousate
    poem 6, line 1: helikôpidos
    poem 6, line 1: Aphroditas
    poem 6, line 10 (general note)
    poem 6, line 10: cheimerios ombros
    poem 6, line 10: epaktos
    poem 6, line 15: patri teôi ... koinan te geneai
    poem 6, line 19 (general note)
    poem 6, line 19: schethôn
    poem 6, line 19: toi ... nin
    poem 6, line 19: epidexia cheiros
    poem 6, line 28 (general note)
    poem 6, line 28: egento
    poem 6, line 28: kai proteron
    poem 6, line 30: enarimbroton
    poem 6, line 35: Messaniou
    poem 6, line 37 (general note)
    poem 6, line 37: chamaipetes
    poem 6, line 37: autou
    poem 6, line 40: tôn palai
    poem 6, line 40: geneai
    poem 6, line 45: patrôian ... pros stathman
    poem 6, line 46 (general note)
    poem 6, line 46: patrôi
    poem 6, line 5: Emmenidais
    poem 6, line 50: Elelichthon
    poem 6, line 50: orgais hos hippeian esodôn
    poem 6, line 50: mala Wadonti noôi

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    5, 277 [Book 5 (e)]
    4, 188 [Book 4 (d)]
    3, 4 [Book 3 (g)]

    Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    1, 530 [Book 1 (A)]

    Cross references from Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes:
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [His style]
    * [Dialect]
    * [Antistrophe 12]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Epode 4]
    * [Antistrophe 4]

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