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Isthmian 3
ΜΕΛΙΣΣΩι ΘΗΒΑΙΩι ΙΠΠΟΙΣ


εἴ τις ἀνδρῶν εὐτυχήσαις ἢ σὺν εὐδόξοις ἀέθλοις
ἢ σθένει πλούτου κατέχει φρασὶν αἰανῆ κόρον,
ἄξιος εὐλογίαις ἀστῶν μεμίχθαι.
Ζεῦ, μεγάλαι δ᾽ ἀρεταὶ θνατοῖς ἕπονται
5ἐκ σέθεν: ζώει δὲ μάσσων ὄλβος ὀπιζομένων, πλαγίαις δὲ φρένεσσιν
[10] οὐχ ὁμῶς πάντα χρόνον θάλλων ὁμιλεῖ.
εὐκλέων δ᾽ ἔργων ἄποινα χρὴ μὲν ὑμνῆσαι τὸν ἐσλόν,
χρὴ δὲ κωμάζοντ᾽ ἀγαναῖς χαρίτεσσιν βαστάσαι.
ἔστι δὲ καὶ διδύμων ἀέθλων Μελίσσῳ
10μοῖρα πρὸς εὐφροσύναν τρέψαι γλυκεῖαν
ἦτορ, ἐν βάσσαισιν Ἰσθμοῦ δεξαμένῳ στεφάνους, τὰ δὲ κοίλᾳ λέοντος
[20] ἐν βαθυστέρνου νάπᾳ κάρυξε Θήβαν
ἱπποδρομίᾳ κρατέων. ἀνδρῶν δ᾽ ἀρετὰν
σύμφυτον οὐ κατελέγχει.
15ἴστε μὰν Κλεωνύμου
δόξαν παλαιὰν ἅρμασιν:
καὶ ματρόθε Λαβδακίδαισιν σύννομοι πλούτου διέστειχον τετραοριᾶν πόνοις.
[30] αἰὼν δὲ κυλινδομέναις ἁμέραις ἄλλ᾽ ἄλλοτ᾽ ἐξάλλαξεν: ἄτρωτοί γε μὰν παῖδες θεῶν.

Pindar. The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937.

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    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, 513-862
    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 1065
    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra, 1485
    • Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns, HYMN TO APOLLO
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    • Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), 9.522
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    • Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes, His style
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