Mythology & Folklore
Book XIII, 19
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
This statue is the offering of Nicoladas of Corinth, who conquered at Delphi in the foot-race, and at the Panathenaea gained prizes, jars of oil, in five contests one after another; and in holy Isthmus the shore of the Sea-lord witnessed him win the prize thrice in succession; and in Nemea he gained three victories, another four in Pellene, and two in the precinct of Zeus Lycaeus; and likewise in Tegea, and in mighty Epidaurus, and in Thebes, and the land of Megara; and in Phlius, winning the stadion and pentathlon, he made great Corinth rejoice.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Paton’s metre label: ‘Hexameters followed by verses of nine syllables’.
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