By speedy zephyrs borne in thickned air: Now o'er the mountain tops the rifing fun 80 84 88 The drefs, the crefcent; and her doubts give way. 92- Goddess, I own thee, and thy favours prize : 96 To guard thy bloom, and warn thy tender years. 100 TRANS TRANSLATION S.. THE FIRST OLYMPIONIQUE OF PINDAR. To HIERO of SYRACUSE, victorious in the HORSE-RACE. ARG U. ME N T. THE Poet praises Hiero for his justice, his wisdom, and his kill in mufic. He likewife celebrates the horfe that won the race, and the place where the Olympick Games were performed. From the place (namely Peloponnefus) he takes an occafion of di- greffing to the known fable of Tantalus and Pelops; whence, returning to Hiero, he fets forth the felicity · of the Olympian Victors. Then he concludes, by praying to the gods to preferve the glory and dignity of Hiero, admonishing him to moderation of mind,, in his high station; and, lastly, glories in his own. excellency in compofitions of this kind. E STROPHE I. Measures 18.. ACH element to water yields; And gold, like blazing fire by night, Amidft the ftores of wealth that builds The mind aloft, is eminently bright: But But if, my foul, with fond defire 5 To fing of games thou dost aspire, As thou by day canft not defcry, Through all the liquid waste of sky, One burnish'd ftar, that like the fun does glow, So, my sweet foul, no toil divine, In fong, does like th' Olympian fhine: A hymn, of every tongue the praife, When far, from every land, they come To vifit Hiero's regal dome, Where peace, where plenty, is for ever found: ANTISTROPHE I. Measures 18. Lord of Sicilia's fleecy plains, He governs, righteous in his power, And, all excelling while he reigns,' From every lovely virtue crops the flower : In mufic, bloffom of delight, Divinely skill'd, he cheers the night, As we are wont, when friends design 25 To feast and wanton o'er their wine: But from the wall the Dorian harp take down, If Pifa, city of renown, And if the fleet victorious fteed, The boast of his unrival'd breed, 30 When When late, on Alpheus' crouded shore, And swift to victory his master bore. E PODE I. Meafures 16. The lov'd Syracufian, the prince of the course, 3.5 Throughout the land where Lydian Pelops came 40 A land the ocean does embrace, Pelops, whom Neptune, ruler of the main, Clotho produc'd him whole, his shoulder-blade, 45 50 And we, amaz'd, believe each wonder true. Day, after day, brings truth to light, Unyeil'd, and manifeft to fight: But, But, of the blefs'd, those lips which name To grace the due proportion`d feast : There, firft, the trident-bearing feaft: There, first, the trident-bearing guest Beheld thy lovely form; and now, he glow'd;` ANTISTROPHE 60 65 *70 II. Measures 18. And now, his foul fubdued by love, Thee in his golden car he bore Swift to the lofty towers of Jove, Whose name the nations all around adere: Thus Ganymede was caught on high, 75 7 And thofe, who fought a pledge fo dear, Thy father's feast, a rumour spread, The rumour through the country fied, 80 85 Thy limbs without compaffion carved, Thy |