Pindar,
Olympian Odes 1.81-84 (tr. William H. Race):
Great risk
does not take hold of a cowardly man.
But since men must die, why would anyone sit
in darkness and coddle a nameless old age to no use,
deprived of all noble deeds?
ὁ μέγας δὲ κίν-
δυνος ἄναλκιν οὐ φῶτα λαμβάνει·
θανεῖν δ᾽ οἷσιν ἀνάγκα, τί κέ τις ἀνώνυμον
γῆρας ἐν σκότῳ καθήμενος ἕψοι μάταν,
ἁπάντων καλῶν ἄμμορος;
W.J. Verdenius ad loc.:
Ge. = Douglas E. Gerber,
Pindar's Olympian One: A Commentary (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982).
