Time & Brevity
Eclogue XXI. — On the Founders of the Games
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book VII. — The Eclogues
Jupiter first hallowed the festival of the Olympian Games at the long race-course of the Grecian stadium. Next did the son of Alcaeus found the solemn Nemean rite. These festivals also are held at appointed seasons once in four years — the Isthmia, established by Neptune, and the Pythia by Phoebus, in honour of the dead worshipped both as human and divine.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Eclogue XXI. — On the Founders of the Games.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/121/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Eclogue XXI. — On the Founders of the Games.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/121/.
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