But to us, O Loxias of the golden-flowing hair, give also at thy
Pythian games a new fair-flowering crown.
[Footnote 1: The Theban Aigidai helped the mythical 'return of the
Herakleidai.']
[Footnote 2: Wisdom of bards.]
[Footnote 3: Strepsiades the uncle.]
[Footnote 4: Poseidon.]
VII.
FOR KLEANDROS OF AIGINA,
WINNER IN THE PANKRATION.
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All that we can be certain of as to the date of this ode is that it was written soon after the final expulsion of the Persians. From the first strophe we learn that Kleandros had won a Nemean as well as an Isthmian victory, and perhaps this ode really belongs to the former. It was to be sung, it seems, before the house of Telesarchos the winner's father, at Aigina.