Pytheas of AEgina had conquered in rough-and-tumble fight all antagonists in the Pancratium.

V. FOR PYTHEAS OF AIGINA, WINNER IN THE BOYS' PANKRATION.

No statuary I, that I should fashion images to rest idly on their pedestals, nay but by every trading-ship and plying boat forth from Aigina fare, sweet song of mine, and bear abroad the news, how that Lampon's son, the strong-limbed Pytheas, hath won at Nemea the pankratiast's crown, while on his cheeks he showeth not as yet the vine-bloom's mother, mellowing midsummer.

Thou, Euthymenes, at Aigina falling into the goddess victory's arms didst win thee hymns of subtle strain: yea and now too to thee, O Pytheas, who art his kinsman of the same stock and followest in his footsteps, doth thy mother's brother honour.

[Footnote 3: Maternal uncle of Pytheas.]

[Footnote 6: Pytheas' trainer, an Athenian.]

[Footnote 7: Maternal grandfather of Pytheas.

This Phylakidas was a son of Lampon, and a brother of the Pytheas for whom the fifth Nemean was written.

For thee, Phylakidas, a double glory of valour is at Isthmos stored, and at Nemea both for thee and for Pytheas a pankratiast's crown.

Also have I praise for Pytheas, for that he guided aright the course of Phylakidas' blows in the struggle of hands that bring limbs low, an adversary he of cunning soul.

[Footnote 4: Pytheas had given his brother example, and very probably precept also, in the pankration.

For for Phylakidas am I come, O Muse, a dispenser of thy triumphal songs, and for Pytheas, and for Euthymenes; therefore in Argive fashion my tale shall be of fewest words.

[Footnote 1: I. e. Pytheas.

[Footnote 9: Maternal uncle of Pytheas and Phylakidas.]

PYTHEAS, a celebrated Greek navigator of Massilia, in Gaul, probably lived in the time of Alexander the Great; in his first voyage visited Britain and Thule, and in his second coasted along the western shore of Europe from Cadiz to the Elbe.