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Bacchylides · Epinician Odes §14b.1-14b.10

Prayer to Hestia and the Victories of Aristotle

Passage 16 of 16 · Greek

Summary

Beginning with an invocation to the goddess Hestia, the poet praises her for guarding the prosperity of the Agathocleadae clan by the Peneios river in Thessaly. It then celebrates Aristotle, a member of this clan, who achieved two victories at Cirrha, bringing glory to Larissa.

§14b.1Ἐστία χρυσόθρονʼ, εὐ- §14b.2δόξων Ἀγαθοκλεαδᾶν ἅτʼ ἀφνε![ῶν §14b.3ἀνδρων μέγαν ὄλβον ἀέξεις §14b.4ἡμένα μέσαις ἀγυιαῖς §14b.5Πηνειὸν ἀμφʼ εὐώδεα Θεσσαλία[ς §14b.6μηλοτρόφου ἐν γυάλοις· §14b.7κεῖθεν καὶ Ἀριστοτέλης Κίρ- §14b.8ραν πρὸς εὐθαλέα μολών §14b.9δὶς στεφανώσατο Λα- §14b.10ρίσα[ς ἀναξίππου χάριν [
Hestia of the golden throne, you who of the glorious Agathocleadae, wealthy men, increase the great prosperity, seated in the midst of the streets around the fragrant Peneios of sheep-rearing Thessaly in the valleys; from there Aristotle also, having gone to prosperous Cirrha, twice crowned himself for the sake of horse-ruling Larissa.

Notes

  1. §14b.2ἅτʼ — Elided form of the relative pronoun ἥτε (ἥ + τε), referring back to the second-person singular antecedent Ἐστία, serving as the subject of the second-person singular verb ἀέξεις within the relative clause.
  2. §14b.10χάριν — Accusative singular of the noun χάρις (favor, glory), used adverbially with a preceding genitive (Λαρίσας ἀναξίππου) to mean 'for the sake of' or 'in honor of.'

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Bacchylides, Epinician Odes §14b.1-14b.10. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0199.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:14b.1-14b.10

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