Thursday, December 29, 2022
Dorokleidas
Inscriptiones Graecae XII,3 390 = Georg Kaibel, Epigrammata Graeca ex Lapidibus Conlecta (Berlin: Reimer, 1878), p. 392, number 942 (from Thera, 1st centiry BC), translation modified from Riet van Bremen, "The Entire House Is Full of Crowns: Hellenistic
Agōnes and the Commemoration of Victory," in Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan, edd., Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 345-375 (at 357):
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Dorokleidas, son of Himeiron, to Hermes and Herakles.
Victory (comes) to boxers through blood; but a boy, bearing breath still hot after the hard boxing contest, stood up for the heavy toil of the pankration; one single day saw Dorokleidas twice bearing away the prize.
Δωροκλείδας Ἱμείροντος
Ερμᾶι καὶ Ἡρακλεῖ.
ἁ νίκα πύκταισι δι' αἵματος· ἀλλ' ἔτι θερμόν
πνεῦμα ϕέρων σκληρᾶς παῖς ἀπὸ πυγμαχίας
ἔστα παγκρατίου βαρὺν ἐς πόνον· ἁ μία δ' ἀώς
δὶς Δωροκλείδαν εἶδεν ἀεθλοϕόρον.
