followest in his footsteps, doth thy mother's brother honour. Nemea is favourable unto him, and the month[1] of his country that Apollo loveth: the youth that came to strive with him he overcame, both at home and by Nisos' hill of pleasant glades[2]. I have joy that the whole state striveth for glory. Know that throughMenander's[3] aid thou hast attained unto sweet recompense of toils. And meet is that from Athens a fashioner of athletes come.
But if thou comest to Themistios[4], to sing of him, away with chill reserve, shout aloud, hoist to the top-yard of the mast the sail, and tell how in the boxing and the pankration at Epidauros he won a double prize of valour, and to the portals of Aiakos bare fresh wreaths of flowers, led by the Graces of the yellow hair.
