Pythian

Pindar

Pindar. Arnson Svarlien, Diane, translator. Created for the Perseus Project, 1990.

  1. the pitiless woman. Was it Iphigeneia, slaughtered at the Euripus far from her fatherland, that provoked her to raise the heavy hand of her anger? Or was she vanquished by another bed
  2. and led astray by their nightly sleeping together? This is the most hateful error for young brides, and is impossible to conceal
  3. because other people will talk. Citizens are apt to speak evil, for prosperity brings with it envy as great as itself.
  4. But the man who breathes close to the ground roars unseen. He himself died, the heroic son of Atreus, when at last he returned to famous Amyclae,