Time & Brevity
Eclogue XX. — On the Places where the Games are Held
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book VII. — The Eclogues
First in honour of great Jove the Olympian Games are held at Pisa. Parnassus consecrated the Pythia to Phoebus, lord of Claros. To Portumnus, god of twin seas, lofty Corinth dedicates the Isthmia. Thebes celebrates the Nemea in memory of the death of Archemorus.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Eclogue XX. — On the Places where the Games are Held.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/120/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Eclogue XX. — On the Places where the Games are Held.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/120/.
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