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250 Th' encomiastic strain shall be

Pronounced with Argive brevity.

Three crowns in the pancratium's fray,

Victorious on the Isthmian shore,

And some from Nemea's plain away

Th' illustrious sons and uncles bore.

What theme for lyric glory bright

Their valiant deeds have brought to light!

And with the Graces' fairest dew

Your tribe, Psaleuchidæ, imbue:

Themistius' house their love shall crown,

Dwelling in this Heaven-favour'd town;

While Lampo strives by deeds to prove,

And efforts of laborious care,

How much the words of Hesiod move

His warm approval to declare;

Exhorting his remotest race

Their common city's fame by valiant acts to grace.

Bless'd in the cherish'd strangers' love,

Retain'd within the mild control

Of mediocrity of soul:

His tongue ne'er wont beyond the mind to move.

His name among the athletes known,

Who oft were taught his might to feel,

Sounds like the hardy Naxian stone,

Which best subdues the temper'd steel.

To slake their thirst, them will I lave

In Dirce's pure and hallow'd wave,

Which the fair nymphs to light have brought,

Mnemosyne's assiduous train,

Whose costly robes with gold are wrought,

Where Cadmus' gates the well-built walls maintain.