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poet charges his song with the celebration of the victory which Pytheas, son of Lampo, has achieved in the Nemean games.—Hence he digresses to the heroes of Ægina, descendants of Æacus, especially Peleus, Euthymenes, Pytheas, the Athenian Menander his alipta, and Themistius.—Concludes with an address to his muse, exhorting her boldly to sing the triumphs of Pytheas at Nemea and in the festivals which were held at Epidaurus in honour of Æsculapius.

is no statuary's fame,

Whose art constructs the mimic frame,

Forever standing on the selfsame base.

But leave, sweet song, Ægina's port,

On long-deck'd ships and cutters short,

To tell that Lampo's mighty son

Pytheas the Nemean crown hath won,

Whose honours the pancratium's victor grace.

Incipient manhood's tender flower

Not yet his downy cheek array'd

When his triumphant deeds display'd

Th' Æacidæ's victorious power—