Bacchylides Ode 3

For Hieron of Syracuse Chariot-Race at Olympia 468 B. C.

Clio, giver of sweet gifts,

Sing the praises of the mistress of most fertile Sicily
Demeter, and of her violet-garlanded Daughter, and of Hieron's swift horses, 
Racers at Olympia

For they sped with majestic Victory

and with Aglaia by the wide-whirling Alpheus,

Where they made the son of Deinomenes a prosperous man,
A victor winning garlands. And the people shouted, 
“Ah! thrice-blessed man! 
Zeus has granted him the honor of ruling most widely over the Greeks,
He knows not to hide his towered wealth under black-cloaked darkness.” 
The temples teem with cattle-sacrificing festivities; 
The streets teem with hospitality.
Gold flashes and glitters,
The gold of tall ornate tripods standing before the temple, 
Where the Delphians administer the great precinct of Phoebus
Beside the Castalian stream.