Pythian
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Original / primary: Perseus Eng3
7.1
The great city of Athens is the most beautiful prelude of song, which the widely powerful race of the Alcmaeonids can lay as a foundation of odes in honor of their horses.
7.5
What fatherland, what family will you name that is more illustrious in Greece ?
7.9
For in all cities the story
7.10
of the citizens of Erechtheus makes the rounds, Apollo, how they made your dwelling in divine Pytho a marvel to see. Five Isthmian victories lead my song forward, and one outstanding triumph
7.15
at Zeus’ Olympian games, and two from Cirrha —
7.17
yours, Megacles, and your ancestors’. I rejoice at this new success; but I grieve that fine deeds are repaid with envy.
7.20
It is true what they say: the abiding bloom of good fortune brings with it both good and bad.