Time & Brevity
Eclogue XXII. — To show that the Sacred Contests are also held as Funerary Games
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book VII. — The Eclogues
To Pelops, son of Tantalus, Elis dedicates its tribute of woe. Thebes holds the Nemea each five years in honour of Archemorus. 'Tis known that the Isthmia commemorate Palaemon's end. The Delphians instituted their Pythian festival to appease the dragon slain by Phoebus.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Eclogue XXII. — To show that the Sacred Contests are also held as Funerary Games.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/122/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Eclogue XXII. — To show that the Sacred Contests are also held as Funerary Games.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/122/.
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