[Footnote 17: Thera.]
[Footnote 18: In this parable the oak is the state, the boughs its best men, the fire and the alien house destruction and servitude.]
[Footnote 19: The fountain Kyra in the heart of the city Kyrene.]
V.
FOR ARKESILAS OF KYRENE,
WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
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This ode celebrates the same victory as the foregoing. It would seem that the chariot had been consecrated to Apollo and left in the temple at Delphi, but the horses were brought home to Kyrene and led in procession through the sacred street of Apollo, with their charioteer Karrhotos, brother of Arkesilas' wife.
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Wide-reaching is the power of wealth, whensoever a mortal man hath received it at the hands of Fate with pure virtue mingled, and bringeth it to his home, a follower that winneth him many friends. Arkesilas, thou favourite of the gods, thou verily seekest after it with good report from the first steps of thy glorious life, with aid of Kastor of the golden car, who after the wintry storm hath shed bright calm about thy happy hearth[1].