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TRANSLATIONS FROM PINDAR
THE HEIGHT OF GLORY.
Pythia x. 33–48.
Fortunate and celebrated
By the wise is that man
Who, conquering by his hands or virtue
Of his feet, takes the highest prizes
Through daring and strength,
And living still sees his youthful son
Deservedly obtaining Pythian crowns.
The brazen heaven is not yet accessible to him.
But whatever glory we
Of mortal race may reach,
He goes beyond, even to the boundaries
Of navigation. But neither in ships, nor going on foot,
Couldst thou find the wonderful way to the contests of the Hyperboreans.
TO ARISTOCLIDES, VICTOR AT THE NEMEAN GAMES.
Nemea iii. 32–37.
If, being beautiful,
And doing things like to his form,
The child of Aristophanes
Went to the height of manliness, no further
