Even as the sons of Homer, those singers of deftly woven lays, begin most often with Zeus for their prelude; even so hath our hero laid a first foundation for a tale of achievements in the sacred games by receiving a crown in the storied grove of Nemean Zeus. But if fate, which guideth him aright in his ancestral path, hath indeed given him as a glory to great Athens, it needs must be that the son of Timonoüs should full often, in the days to come, cull the flower most fair of the Isthmian games and be victorious in the Pythian contests. And meet it is that Orion should not move far behind the (seven, mountain Pleiads. And, verily, Salamis might well be able to rear a warrior :—in Troy did Hector hear of? Aias, while thou, O Timodémus, art exalted by thy enduring courage in the pancratium. But Acharnae
even of old is famous for heroes ; and, for all that toucheth contests, the sons of Timodémus are proclaimed preéminent. By the lofty throne of Parnassus, they bore away four victories from the games, while by the Corinthians they have ere now been wedded with eight garlands in the glades of mighty Pelops, and with seven at Nemea in the contest of Zeus; while the prizes they have won at home are beyond all counting. Praise him, O ye citizens, with the song of triumph, at the bidding of Timodémus, when he cometh home again with glory, and begin the song with sweetly-sounding strains.
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