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they had been able to see the truth, then mighty Aias, in anger over the arms, would never have planted in his chest the smooth sword—Aias, who was the most powerful in battle, except for Achilles, and whom the breath of the unswerving Zephyr conveyed in swift ships, to bring back the wife of golden-haired Menelaus
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from the city of Ilus. But the wave of Hades breaks over all alike; it falls on the man who does not expect it, and on the one who does. There is honor for those whose fame a god causes to grow luxuriant when they are dead. Neoptolemus came to help, Adding a period after τεθνακότων and reading with C. Carey, A Commentary on Five Odes of Pindar New York 1981, 148-50, βοαθέων . . . μόλεν. to the great navel of the broad-bosomed earth. And he lies beneath the Pythian soil,
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after he sacked the city of Priam, where even the Danaans toiled. But on his return voyage he missed Scyros, and after wandering from their course they came to Ephyra.
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He ruled in Molossia for a brief time; and his race always bore
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this honor of his. He had gone to consult the god, bringing precious things from the finest spoils of Troy ; and there he met with a quarrel over the flesh of his sacrifice, and a man struck him with a knife.
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The hospitable Delphians were grieved beyond measure; but he fulfilled his fate. It was destined that within that most ancient grove one
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of the ruling race of Aeacus should, for all time to come, stay beside the fine-walled house of the god, and dwell there to preside over the processions of heroes, which are honored by many sacrifices. Following Snell ’s punctuation, period after πολυθύ τοις and after ἐκγόνων, below. As for their justly earned good name, a few words will suffice: it is no lying witness that presides over achievements of the offspring of you and Zeus,
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Aegina. I have this bold speech to make,
