Even the dead have their share when paid them with due rites, and the grace of kinsmen's honour the dust concealeth not. From Hermes' daughter Fame shall Iphion[8] hear and tell to Kallimachos this lustre of Olympic glory, which Zeus hath granted to this house. Honour upon honour may he vouchsafe unto it, and shield it from sore disease[9]. I pray that for the share of glory fallen to them he raise against them no contrary discontent, but granting them a life unharmed may glorify them and their commonwealth.
[Footnote 1: Alkimedon's brother. He had won a victory at the Nemean games.]
[Footnote 2: Aigina had a high commercial reputation, and strangers were equitably dealt with in her courts.]
[Footnote 3: The two first dragons typify the Aiakids, Aias and
Achilles, who failed to enter Troy, the third typifies Achilles' son,
Neoptolemos, who succeeded.]
[Footnote 4: Aiakos' son, Telamon, was with Herakles when he took
Troy: his great-grandson Neoptolemos was in the Wooden Horse.]
[Footnote 5: To Aigina.]
[Footnote 6: Alkimedon's trainer.]
[Footnote 7: I. e. Alkimedon has escaped the disagreeable circumstances of defeat and transferred them to the four opponents against whom he was matched in four successive ties.]
[Footnote 8: Iphion seems to have been the father and Kallimachos the uncle of Alkimedon.]
[Footnote 9: Perhaps Iphion and Kallimachos died of some severe illness.]