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Receive th' encomiastic strain,

His tribute, who on Pisa's plain

The pentathletic garland won:

Urged by insuperable force

While he the stadium's lengthen'd course

With rapid foot was first to run.

Of all in that great strife renown'd,

Such wreaths no former mortal crown'd.

His brow, in pride of triumph placed,

Twice has the Isthmian parsley graced—

As oft conspicuous in the Nemean field,

To him the crown his vanquished rivals yield—

And by Alphéus' shore his father's name,

Swift-footed Thessalus, is given to fame.

Him the same sun beheld on Pytho's plain,

The stadic and diaulic prize obtain:

And rocky Athens wove her chaplet fair

Thrice in one moon, to deck the victor's hair.

Seven times th' Hellotian palm he gain'd;

But when on Isthmian Neptune's strand

The efforts of his victor hand

Join'd to great Ptæodorus' might,

His sire and partner in the fight,

The glorious prize obtain'd;

More lengthen'd pomps and songs proclaim

Terpsias' and Eritimus' fame.