Ode 15 (Dithyramb 1) The Sons of Antenor, or The Demand for Helen's Return
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The [wife] of godlike [Antenor], priestess of Athena of battle-rousing Pallas golden
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of the Argives, to Odysseus [son of Laertes ] and Menelaus, the royal son of Atreus, [deep]-waisted Theano
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spoke
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well-built with the gods Epode 1 is missing.
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heart [at midnight] 12 lines are missing.
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led and their father, the wise hero, made the whole speech of the Achaeans known to king Priam and his sons.
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Then heralds rushed through the broad town and brought together the ranks of the Trojans
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into the assembly-place of the army. Loud rumor ran everywhere;
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and raising their hands to the immortal gods, they prayed for an end to their griefs. Muse, who was the first to begin the words of justice? Menelaus son of Pleisthenes spoke with enchanting words and voice, having conferred with the Graces with beautiful robes:
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Battle-loving Trojans: Zeus, the ruler on high who sees all, is not to blame for the great woes of mortals; all men have a chance to reach unswerving Justice, the attendant of holy
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Eunomia and prudent Themis. Prosperous are they whose children take Justice to live with them.
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But shameless Hybris, flourishing with shifty greed and lawless empty-headedness, who will swiftly bestow on a man someone else's wealth and power,
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and then send him into deep ruin—Hybris destroyed the arrogant sons of the Earth, the Giants.
Ode 16 (Dithyramb 2) [Heracles (or Deianeira?), for the Delphians]
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since Ourania on her lovely throne has sent me from Pieria a golden freighter loaded with glorious songs
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by the flowery Hebrus he takes delight in , or in a long-necked swan delighting his mind you come to seek the flowers of paeans,
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Pythian Apollo, all those which choruses of Delphians loudly sing at your glorious temple.
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Meanwhile we sing of how the son of Amphitryon, a bold-minded man, left Oechalia devoured by fire,
