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they founded a unified race of stone offspring, and the stones gave the people their name Pun on λαὸ’δψ λαοὶ δ᾽, “people”, and λήθοι, “stones.” , Arouse for them a clear-sounding path Reading with Snell and MSS οἶμον for οὖρον, of song; praise wine that is old, but praise the flowers of songs
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that are new. They tell, indeed,
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how the strength of the waters overwhelmed the dark earth; but by the skills of Zeus the ebbing tide suddenly drained off the flood. From these were descended your ancestors with their bronze shields,
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young men sprung from the beginning from the stock of the daughters of Iapetus and from the powerful sons of Cronus, always a native line of kings,
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until the ruler of Olympus carried off the daughter of Opus from the land of the Epeians, and lay with her peacefully in the glens of Mount Maenalus, and brought her
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to Locrus, so that age would not overtake him and lay the burden of childlessness on him. His bride was carrying in her womb the seed of the greatest god, and the hero rejoiced to see his adopted son, and gave him the same name as his mother’s father, Opus,
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a man beyond words in beauty and fine deeds. Locrus gave him a city and a people to govern,
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and strangers came to him from Argos and Thebes, from Arcadia and Pisa, But among the settlers he chiefly honored the son of Actor
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and Aegina, Menoetius, whose son went with the Atreidae to the plain of Teuthras, and stood alone beside Achilles, when Telephus turned to flight the mighty Danaans, and attacked their ships beside the sea, to reveal to a man of understanding
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the powerful mind of Patroclus. From that time forward, the son of Thetis exhorted him in deadly war
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never to post himself far from his own man-subduing spear.
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May I be a suitable finder of words as I move onward in the Muses’ chariot; may boldness and all-embracing power attend me. Because of his friendship with my people and his excellence, I went to honor the Isthmian crowning of Lampromachus, when both he and Epharmostus were victors
