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He executed the flashing movement of wrestling, and brought strong-limbed bodies down to the earth with such high-spirited strength, then returned to the dark-whirling waters of the Asopus,
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whose fame has reached every land, even the farthest reaches of the Nile. And the women skilled with the spear who live by the fair-flowing stream of Thermodon, daughters of horse-driving Ares,
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have met with your descendants, much-envied lord of rivers, and so has Troy, the city of high gates. Countless reports of your offspring tread wide paths everywhere, of your daughters
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with shining belts, whom the gods established, with good fortune, as founders of cities that were never to be sacked.
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Who does not know the well-built city of dark-haired Thebes,
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or renowned Aegina, who went to the bed of great Zeus and bore the hero who the land of the Achaeans trials
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with beautiful robe
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and Peirene with her twisted garland, and as many other
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honorable daughters of the ancient resounding river who were overcome in the glorifying beds of gods. city victory the cries of flutes
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to speak well of golden, violet-haired Cypris, the glorious mother of unbending passions for mortals
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hymn
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even for one who is dead
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everlasting time, would always declare to later generations your victory at Nemea. A fine deed which attains genuine songs of praise is stored up on high with the gods.
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With the true remembrance of men, the finest adornment of the [deep-waisted] Muses is left behind even [after death].
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There are many of men; but the mind of the gods distinguishes
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what is hidden in the darkness of night and the better
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few men what will be.
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gave grace and Dionysus city honored by the gods to dwell
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golden-sceptered whoever takes a fine thing praise for the son of Timoxenos sing praises, with processions [of young men], for his victory in the pentathlon.
Ode 10 For an Athenian Foot Race at the Isthmus Date unknown
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Fame, you visit the races [of men?], and
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eyes peaceful respite now for him his sister's husband
