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    Pindar, Odes

    Olympian Odes

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    Olympian 5 For Psaumis of Camarina Mule Car Race ?460 or 456 B. C.

    [1] Daughter of Ocean, with a smiling heart receive the sweet bloom of lofty excellence and Olympian garlands, the gifts of Psaumis and of his mule car team with untiring feet. [4] Psaumis who, exalting your city, Camarina, which cares for its people, [5] honored the six double altars, at the greatest festivals of the gods, with the sacrifice of oxen and in contests on the fifth day, [7] contests of horse teams, and mule teams, and of riding the single horse. To you he has dedicated rich renown by his victory, and he had his father Acron and his new-founded home proclaimed by the herald. [9] Coming from the lovely homes of Oenomaus and of Pelops, [10] he sings of your sacred grove, Pallas protector of the city, and of the river Oanis, and the local lake, [12] and the sacred canals with which Hipparis waters its people, and swiftly builds a tall-standing grove of steadfast dwellings, bringing this host of citizens out of helplessness into the light. [15][15] Always, when it is a question of excellence, toil and expense strive to accomplish a deed that is shrouded in danger; those who are successful seem wise, even to their fellow-citizens. [17] Savior Zeus, high in the clouds, you who dwell on the hill of Cronus and honor the wide-flowing Alpheus and the sacred cave of Ida! I come as your suppliant, singing to the sound of Lydian flutes, [20][20] entreating you to adorn this city with glorious hosts of noble men; and that you, Psaumis the Olympic victor, delighting in the horses of Poseidon, may carry on to the end a pleasurable old age [23] with your sons standing beside you. If a man cultivates both prosperity and health, being generous with his possessions and winning praise as well, let him not seek to become a god.


    There are a total of 42 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes:
    poem 5 (general note)
    poem 5, line 1 (general note)
    poem 5, line 1: aôton
    poem 5, line 10: stathmô_n
    poem 5, line 10: Pallas
    poem 5, line 10: aeidei men ... potamon te
    poem 5, line 12 (general note)
    poem 5, line 12: semnous ochetous
    poem 5, line 12: straton
    poem 5, line 15 (general note)
    poem 5, line 15: amph' aretaisi
    poem 5, line 15: ponos dapana te
    poem 5, line 15: marnatai
    poem 5, line 15: pros ergon
    poem 5, line 17 (general note)
    poem 5, line 17: Sôtêr
    poem 5, line 20 (general note)
    poem 5, line 20: euanoriaisi
    poem 5, line 23 (general note)
    poem 5, line 23: paristamenôn
    poem 5, line 23: ganuntai. &#ch2014; hugienta
    poem 5, line 4 (general note)
    poem 5, line 4: auxôn
    poem 5, line 4: laotrophon
    poem 5, line 5: bômous hex didumous
    poem 5, line 5: egerairen
    poem 5, line 7 (general note)
    poem 5, line 7: hippois hêmionois te monampukiai te
    poem 5, line 7: monampukiai
    poem 5, line 9 (general note)
    poem 5, line 9: Oinomaou kai Pelopos

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    160: poliaochos
    1091: tan san polin auxôn

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    382 [a) Praesens.]

    Cross references from Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes:
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [His style]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Dialect]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Pythian Odes]
    * [Syntax]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Olympian Odes]
    * [Antistrophe 3]
    * [Pythian Odes]

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