[Footnote 2: The Isthmus.]
[Footnote 3: The rod or staff carried anciently by poets and reciters of poems.]
[Footnote 4: I. e. throwing herself on her back with feet upward. If it is meant that she counterfeits death, then of course the parallel with the pankratiast will only hold good to the extent of the supine posture.]
[Footnote 5: His trainer, Orseas.]
IV.
FOR PHYLAKIDAS OF AIGINA,
WINNER IN THE PANKRATION.
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This Phylakidas was a son of Lampon, and a brother of the Pytheas for whom the fifth Nemean was written. This ode must have been written shortly after the battle of Salamis, probably B.C. 478, and was to be sung at Aigina, perhaps at a festival of the goddess Theia who is invoked at the beginning. She, according to Hesiod, was the mother of the Sun, the Moon, and the Morning, and was also called [Greek: Euruphaessa] and [Greek: chruse], from which latter name perhaps came her association with gold and wealth.
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