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THE METOPES OF SELINUS.
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was the joint triumph of worshipper and worshipped,
and yet, or rather therefore, how temperate, how free
from insolent self-assurance.
The man who had once stood as victor before the
presence of Zeus was noble for ever, and the founder of
a true aristocracy ; his native city he entered through a
breach in her walls, for she who had given him birth
could need no other defender, and his glory went down
to posterity. For the man who conquered again and
again we hear of other and special honours. Note the
list of the triumphs of a hero of Rhodes : “ Of garlands
from games at Olympia hath Diagoras twice won him
crowns, and four times he had good luck at famous
Isthmos, and twice following at Nemea, and twice at
rocky Athens. And at Argos the bronze shield knoweth
him, and the deeds of Arcadia and of Thebes, and the
yearly games Boeotian and Pellene and Aigines, where
six times hath he won, and the pillar of stone at Megara
has the same tale to tell.” (Pindar O. vii. E. Myers.)
The ode from which the words are taken was engraved in
gold letters in Athene’s temple at Lindos, a national pride-
“ Still in golden line
From the Lindian shrine
Flames his praise the sun-lit seas along.”
More than half a century later, when in the bitterness
of the Peloponnesian struggle Greek was fighting against
Greek, the son of this Diagoras, beautiful Dorikus (23), was
187
was the joint triumph of worshipper and worshipped,
and yet, or rather therefore, how temperate, how free
from insolent self-assurance.
The man who had once stood as victor before the
presence of Zeus was noble for ever, and the founder of
a true aristocracy ; his native city he entered through a
breach in her walls, for she who had given him birth
could need no other defender, and his glory went down
to posterity. For the man who conquered again and
again we hear of other and special honours. Note the
list of the triumphs of a hero of Rhodes : “ Of garlands
from games at Olympia hath Diagoras twice won him
crowns, and four times he had good luck at famous
Isthmos, and twice following at Nemea, and twice at
rocky Athens. And at Argos the bronze shield knoweth
him, and the deeds of Arcadia and of Thebes, and the
yearly games Boeotian and Pellene and Aigines, where
six times hath he won, and the pillar of stone at Megara
has the same tale to tell.” (Pindar O. vii. E. Myers.)
The ode from which the words are taken was engraved in
gold letters in Athene’s temple at Lindos, a national pride-
“ Still in golden line
From the Lindian shrine
Flames his praise the sun-lit seas along.”
More than half a century later, when in the bitterness
of the Peloponnesian struggle Greek was fighting against
Greek, the son of this Diagoras, beautiful Dorikus (23), was