Nemean

Pindar

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

  1. beside Amphitryon’s splendid tomb, the Cadmeans gladly crowned him with flowers, for the sake of Aegina. For he looked on [*](Reading with Snell and MSS κατέδρακεν for κατέδραμεν. ) a hospitable city, when he came as a friend to friends, to the prosperous court of Heracles,
  2. with whom once powerful Telamon destroyed Troy and the Meropes and the great and terrible warrior Alcyoneus, but not before that giant had laid low, by hurling a rock, twelve chariots and twice twelve horse-taming heroes who were riding in them.
  3. A man who did not understand this proverb would appear to be inexperienced in battle: since “it is likely that the doer will also suffer.”
  4. The laws of song and the hurrying hours prevent me from telling a long story,
  5. and I am drawn, by a magic charm on my heart, to touch on the new-moon festival. Nevertheless, although the deep salt sea holds you around the middle, strain against treacherous plots. We will be seen arriving in the light far above our enemies. But another man, with an envious glance,
  6. broods in the darkness over an empty thought