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poet declares this to be the first victory which Timodemus has obtained, considering it as a presage of future success in the Pythian and Isthmian games. This is the more probable, as his ancestors have rendered the family illustrious by their numerous victories gained in many preceding contests, several of which he enumerates.—Concludes with an exhortation to the citizens to celebrate with hymns the glorious return of Timodemus to his country.

bards of the Homeric train

From Jove preluding, weave the strain,

So has this hero the foundation laid

Of conquests in the sacred games,

And now his earliest chaplet claims

Where Nemea's grove expands her hallow'd shade.