Cheer your spirit with pious deeds

Cheer your spirit with pious deeds, for this is the highest of profits. Bacchylides quoting the god Apollo. Epinicians. Ode 3.


Image: An archaic Cypriot ram-bearer 6th century BCE thought to be from the Temple of Apollo Hylates at Kourion photographed at the Metropolian Museum of Art in New York.

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