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Original / primary: Perseus Eng2
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Like a skillful helmsman, Clio , mistress of song, guide my thoughts now in a straight course, if you ever did before. For to the prosperous
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island of Aegina queenly Victory commands me to go, to my hospitable friends, and adorn the god-built city
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and the strong-limbed wrestling at Nemea lines 9-32 are lost.
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friend
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in the competitions of the neighboring people. They were honored with celebrations for thirty splendid victories, some in [ Pytho,]
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others in the neck of Pelops' holy island, full of pine,
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others in the precinct of Nemean Zeus, god of brilliant lightning flashes these and at the silver-whirling [Alpheus?]