Bacchylides

Bacchylides (Ancient Greek: Βακχυλίδης Bakkhulides; c. 518 – c. 451 BC) was a Greek lyric poet. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets, which included his uncle Simonides.

Quotes

Τίκτει δέ τε θνατοῖσιν Εἰρήνα μεγάλα
στρ. πλοῦτον μελιγλώσσων τ' ἀοιδᾶν ἄνθεα,
δαιδαλέων τ᾽ ἐπὶ βωμῶν
θεοῖσιν αἴθεσθαι βοῶν ξανθᾷ φλογί
μῆρα τανῦτρίχων τε μήλων
γυμνασίων τε νέοις
αὐλῶν τε καὶ κώμων μέλειν.
- Paean [on Peace] l. 1, in Stobaeus, Florilegium
  - Great Goddess Peace does Wealth on us bestow,
    From her our Sciences and Learning flow,
    Our Arts improve, and we the Artists prize,
    Our Altars fume with richest Sacrifice.
    Youths mind their active sports—they often meet,
    Revel and dance with Maydens in the Street.
    - Philip Ayres, 1687
  - To mortal men Peace giveth these good things:
    Wealth, and the flowers of honey-throated song;
    The flame that springs
    On carven altars from fat sheep and kine,
    Slain to the gods in heaven; and, all day long,
    Games for gold youths, and flutes, and wreaths, and circling wine.
    - J. A. Symonds, 1877
  - Peace upon earth
    Brings Wealth and blossom of dulcet Song to birth;
    To the Gods on carven altars makes thighs of oxen burn,
    And sheep in the yellow flame,
    And bids the young men’s thoughts to the wrestling-game
    And revel and hautboy turn.
    - W. G. Headlam, 1907

Ἐν δὲ σιδαροδέτοις πόρπαξιν αἰθᾶν
ἀραχνᾶν ἱστοὶ πέλονται,
ἔγχεα τε λογχωτὰ ξίφεα τ᾽ ἀμφάκεα
δάμναται εὐρώς.
- Paean [on Peace] l. 8, in Stobaeus, Florilegium
  - The useless Shield serves to adorn the Hall,
    Whence Spiders weave their Nets against the Wall;
    Gauntlets and Spears lye cover’d o’er with Dust,
    And slighted Swords half eaten up with Rust.
    - Philip Ayres, 1687
  - Webs of the spider brown in the iron shield are made,
    And rust grows over the edge of the sword and the lance’s blade.
    - W. G. Headlam, 1907

Συμποσίων δ᾽ ἐρατῶν βρίθοντ᾽ ἀγυιαί,
παιδείοι θ᾽ ὕμνοι φλέγονται.
- Paean [on Peace] l. 16, in Stobaeus, Florilegium
  - Days steal away in Feasting and Delight,
    And Lovers spend in Serenades the Night.
    - Philip Ayres, 1687
  - The streets are thronged with lovely men and young,
    And hymns in praise of boys like flames to heaven are flung.
    - J. A. Symonds, 1877
  - Banquet and blithe carousal throng the ways,
    And the amorous hymn like fire in the air breaks forth in praise.
    - W. G. Headlam, 1907

Οἱ μὲν ἀδμᾶτες ἀεικελιᾶν
νούσων εἰσὶν καὶ ἄνατοι,
οὐδὲν ἀνθρώποις ἴκελοι.
- Fragment 23, in Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, v, 110, 1
  - Not unseated,
    Not even touched
    By the shocks of sickness,
    Gods stand worlds from men.
    - Robert Fagles, 1961

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J. M. Edmonds (ed.) Lyra Graeca, vol. 3 (LCL, 1927)