TRANSLATIONS FROM PINDAR
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APOLLO.
Pythia v. 87–90.
He bestowed the lyre,
And he gives the muse to whom he wishes,
Bringing peaceful serenity to the breast.
MAN.
Pythia viii. 136.
The phantom of a shadow are men.
HYPSEUS' DAUGHTER CYRENE.
Pythia ix. 31–44.
He reared the white-armed child Cyrene,
Who loved neither the alternating motion of the loom,
Nor the superintendence of feasts,
With the pleasures of companions;
But, with javelins of steel
And the sword contending,
To slay wild beasts;
Affording surely much
And tranquil peace to her father's herds;
Spending little sleep
Upon her eyelids,
As her sweet bedfellow, creeping on at dawn.
