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They built her a sanctuary and an altar right away, and stained it with the blood of sheep, and set up choruses of women. From there you accompanied battle-loving Achaean men to their horse-nurturing city;
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and with good fortune you dwell in Metapontion, golden mistress of the people. And a lovely precinct beside the fine waters of the Casas
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~ their ancestors established? ~ when at last, by the counsels of the blessed gods, they sacked the well-built city of Priam together with the Atreidae with their bronze breastplates. Whoever has a just mind will find,
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throughout all time, countless deeds of valor done by the Achaeans.
Ode 12 For Teisias of Aegina Wrestling at Nemea Date unknown
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Like a skillful helmsman, Clio , mistress of song, guide my thoughts now in a straight course, if you ever did before. For to the prosperous
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island of Aegina queenly Victory commands me to go, to my hospitable friends, and adorn the god-built city
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and the strong-limbed wrestling at Nemea lines 9-32 are lost.
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friend
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in the competitions of the neighboring people. They were honored with celebrations for thirty splendid victories, some in [ Pytho,]
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others in the neck of Pelops' holy island, full of pine,
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others in the precinct of Nemean Zeus, god of brilliant lightning flashes these and at the silver-whirling [Alpheus?]
Ode 13 For Pytheas of Aegina Pancratium at Nemea ? 483 B. C.
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Clio
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Lines 13-43 are lost.
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He shall stop them from arrogant violence, bringing about judgments of law for mortals:
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look how the descendant of Perseus brings his hand down heavily on the neck of the bloodthirsty lion with every type of skill!
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For the gleaming, man-subduing bronze refuses to pierce the lion's fearsome body; the sword was bent back. Someday, I prophesy,
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[in this place] there will be a strenuous toil for the Greeks, competing for garlands in the pancratium.
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beside the altar of Zeus, the greatest ruler, the blossoms of glory-bringing Victory
