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Odes of Pindar

With several other Pieces in Prose and Verse, Translated from the Greek. To which is added a dissertation on the Olympick games. By Gilbert West
West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
  
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A DISSERTATION ON THE Olympick Games.
  
On Arias of Tarsus, Victor in the Stadium.
  
On Milo the Wrestler.
  
On a Conqueror in the Cæstus.
  
[But fond Amphitryon, with a Father's Zeal]
  
A Description of a Chariot-Race.
  
[So when a Horseman from the watry Mead]
  
[To the swift Victor be no more assign'd]
  
[A Youth, who hopes th'Olympick Prize to gain]

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[So when a Horseman from the watry Mead]

So when a Horseman from the watry Mead
(Skill'd in the Manage of the bounding Steed)
Drives four fair Coursers, practis'd to obey,
To some great City thro' the publick Way:
Safe in his Art, as Side by Side they run,
He shifts his Seat, and vaults from one to one:
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And now to this, and now to that he flies:
Admiring Numbers follow with their Eyes.
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