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Now, just as the flowing wave overwhelms the rolling pebble, so shall I pay my account in full, in gratitude and friendship.
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For unswerving Exactitude rules the city of the Western Locrians, and Calliope is important to them, and bronze-armored Ares.
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Battle with Cycnus set back even Heracles, strong and violent; let Hagesidamus, victorious as a boxer at Olympia, offer thanks to Ilas, just as Patroclus did to Achilles.
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With the help of a god, one man can sharpen another who is born for excellence, and encourage him to tremendous achievement.
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Without toil only a few have attained joy, a light of life above all labors. The laws of Zeus urge me to sing of that extraordinary contest-place which Heracles founded by the ancient tomb of Pelops
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with its six altars, after he killed Cteatus, the flawless son of Poseidon
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and Eurytus too, with a will to exact from the unwilling Augeas, strong and violent, the wages for his menial labor.
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Heracles lay in wait in the thicket below Cleonae, and in his turn overcame those men by the roadside; for once before those arrogant Moliones had destroyed his Tirynthian army, when it was encamped in the valley of Elis,
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And indeed it was not much later before the man who betrayed his friend,
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the king of the Epeians, saw his land with all its possessions, his own city, sink into a deep channel of destruction beneath unyielding fire and blows of iron. A fight with a stronger man
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is impossible to push away. So even he, by his own senselessness, last of all found himself captured and did not escape sheer destruction.
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But the brave son of Zeus gathered the entire army and all the spoils together in Pisa
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and measured out a sacred precinct for his supreme father. He enclosed the Altis all around and marked it off in the open, and he made the encircling area a resting-place for feasting, honoring the stream of the Alpheus
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along with the twelve ruling gods.
