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TO THE SAME AGESIDAMUS, A SUPPLEMENTARY ODE, KNOWN BY THE GREEK TITLE, OR INTEREST.

poet addresses this short ode to Agesidamus, as a kind of amends for his delay in sending him the preceding,—It contains the praises of the Locri and of Agesidamus: the latter on account of his victory with the cæstus; the other for wisdom, hospitality, and fortitude.

men, o'er ocean's paths who sail,

Implore from Heaven a favouring gale,

And others joy when, at their call,

Showers, the clouds' humid daughters, fall;

Thus too when some laborious deed

Is crown'd with victory's well-earn'd meed,

The hero's virtues soft-toned hymns proclaim,

Sure pledge that after times shall celebrate his name.

Praises like these unenvied yield

The conquests of Olympia's field;

And such my tongue aspired to gain.

But human wishes all are vain,

Unless the god his aid bestow,

From whom success and genius flow.

Son of Archestratus! I raise

In thy triumphant cæstus' praise

The hymn whose melody around

The golden olive's wreath shall sound;