History & Politics
Book XIII, 14
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Here lies Dandes of Argos, the stadion racer, who gained honour by his victories for his fatherland, rich in pasture for horses. Twice did he conquer at Olympia, thrice at Delphi, twice at the Isthmus, and fifteen times at Nemea, and it is not easy to count his other victories.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Paton’s metre label: ‘Hexameter followed by a pentameter, two iambic trimeters, and a hexameter’.
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