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Pythian 11 For Thrasydaeus of Thebes Foot Race or Double Foot Race 474 or 454 B. C. E.
The scholia (Inscr. a and b) give both dates. Daughters of Cadmus, Semele dwelling among the Olympians and Ino Leucothea, sharing the chamber of the Nereid sea-nymphs: come, with the mother of Heracles, greatest in birth, to the presence of Melia; come to the sanctuary of golden tripods,
the treasure-house which Loxias honored above all
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and named the Ismenion, true seat of prophecy. Come, children of Harmonia, where even now he calls the native host of heroines to assemble, so that you may loudly sing of holy Themis and Pytho and the just
navel of the earth, at the edge of evening,
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in honor of seven-gated Thebes and the contest at Cirrha, in which Thrasydaeus caused his ancestral hearth to be remembered by flinging over it a third wreath
as a victor in the rich fields of Pylades, the friend of Laconian Orestes,
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who indeed, when his father was murdered, was taken by his nurse Arsinoe from the strong hands and bitter deceit of Clytaemnestra, when she sent the Dardanian daughter of Priam,
Cassandra, together with the soul of Agamemnon, to the shadowy bank of Acheron with her gray blade of bronze,
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the pitiless woman. Was it Iphigeneia, slaughtered at the Euripus far from her fatherland, that provoked her to raise the heavy hand of her anger? Or was she vanquished by another bed
and led astray by their nightly sleeping together? This is the most hateful error for young brides, and is impossible to conceal
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because other people will talk. Citizens are apt to speak evil, for prosperity brings with it envy as great as itself.
But the man who breathes close to the ground roars unseen. He himself died, the heroic son of Atreus, when at last he returned to famous Amyclae,
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