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ancient Greek lyric poet

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Pindar (518 BC – 438 BC) was a Boeotian poet, counted as one of the nine lyric poets of Greece. The only works of his to have survived complete are a series of odes written to celebrate the victors in athletic games.

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Native Name: Πίνδαρος

Alternative Names: Pindarus • Pindaros • Dircæan Swan

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ῥῆμα δ᾽ ἑργμάτων χρονιώτερον βιοτεύει

ἐπάμεροι: τί δέ τις;
τί δ᾽ οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ
ἄνθρωπος. ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν αἴγλα διόσδοτος ἔλθῃ,
λαμπρὸν φέγγος ἔπεστιν ἀνδρῶν καὶ μείλιχος αἰών

Become such as you are, having learned what that is

οὔ τοι ἅπασα κερδίων
φαίνοισα πρόσωπον ἀλάθει᾽ ἀτρεκής·
καὶ τὸ σιγᾶν πολλάκις ἐστὶ σοφώτατον ἀνθρώπῳ νοῆσαι.

γλυκύ δ᾽ἀπείρῳ πόλεμος.
πεπειραμένων δέ τις ταρβεῖ προσιόντα νιν καρδία περισσῶς.

σοφὸς ὁ πολλὰ εἰδὼς φυᾷ.

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

Ἄριστον μὲν ὕδωρ, ὁ δὲ χρυσὸς αἰθόμενον πῦρ ἅτε διαπρέπει νυκτὶ μεγάνορος ἔξοχα πλούτου.

For words
Live longer down the years than deeds.

Do not yearn, O my soul, for immortal life!
Use to the utmost
the skill that is yours.

But if a man shall hope in aught he does
To escape the eyes of god, he makes an error.

Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.

εἰ δὲ θεὸν ἀνήρ τις ἔλπεταί τι λαθέμεν ἔρδων, ἁμαρτάνει.

γένοι' οἷος ἐσσὶ μαθών

A good deed hidden in silence dies.