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AGESIDAMOS OF EPIZEPHYRIAN LOKRIS.
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golden[1] olive, and will have in remembrance the race of the Lokrians' colony in the West.

There do ye, O Muses, join in the song of triumph: I pledge my word that to no stranger-banishing folk shall ye come, nor unacquainted with things noble, but of the highest in arts and valiant with the spear. For neither tawny fox nor roaring lion may change his native temper.


  1. Golden here means supremely excellent, as in the first line of the eighth Olympian.