σὲ δ᾽ ἀείσομαι, ὦ Κλεινίου παῖ.
καλὸν ἁ νίκα: κάλλιστον δ᾽, ὃ μηδεὶς ἄλλος Ἑλλάνων,
ἅρματι πρῶτα δραμεῖν καὶ δεύτερα καὶ τρίτα,
βῆναί τ᾽ ἀπονητί, Διὸς στεφθέντα τ᾽ ἐλαία
κάρυκι βοᾶν 1 παραδοῦναι:
Euripides, an epinician ode
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11.
αἱ δ᾽ ἱπποτροφίαι
περιβόητοι μὲν ἐγένοντο καὶ τῷ πλήθει τῶν ἁρμάτων:
ἑπτὰ γὰρ ἄλλος οὐδεὶς καθῆκεν Ὀλυμπίασιν ἰδιώτης
οὐδὲ βασιλεύς, μόνος δὲ ἐκεῖνος. καὶ τὸ νικῆσαι δὲ
καὶ δεύτερον γενέσθαι καὶ τέταρτον, ὡς Θουκυδίδης
φησίν, ὁ δ᾽ Εὐριπίδης τρίτον, ὑπερβάλλει λαμπρότητι
καὶ δόξῃ πᾶσαν τὴν ἐν τούτοις φιλοτιμίαν.
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λέγει δ᾽ ὁ Εὐριπίδης ἐν
τῷ ᾁσματι ταῦτα:
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 4.
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