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PSAUMIS OF KAMARINA.
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With no lie will I tinge my tale: trial is the test of men; this it was that delivered the son of Klymenos from the Lemnian women's slight. He, when he had won the foot-race in bronze armour[1], spake thus to Hypsipyle as he went to receive his crown: 'For fleetness such am I: hands have I and a heart to match. So also on young men grow oftentimes grey hairs even before the natural season of man's life[2].'


  1. See introduction to [[../../Pythian Odes/9|Pythian ix]].
  2. We may suppose that Psaumis probably had grey hair.