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Book IX, 19

by Archias of Mytilene date unknown (Paton)

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)

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“Race,” who once outshone all fleet-footed horses; about whose legs chaplets once hung; he whom Pytho, the oracular seat of Phoebus, once crowned in the games, where he raced like a swiftly flying bird; he whom Nemea, too, the nurse of the grim lion, crowned, and Pisa and Isthmus with its two beaches, is now fettered by a collar as if by a bit, and grinds corn by turning arough stone. He suffers the same fate as Heracles, who also, after accomplishing so much, put on the yoke of slavery.

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