More athlete-contests did these adventure + 

Than any of champions beside dared enter, + 

And with brazen tripods their halls they graced, + 

And with cauldrons and goblets of gold rich-chased; + 

For they tasted the rapture of strife victorious, + 

And they bore thence garlands of triumph glorious; + 

And ever their prowess shone clear and bright, + 

Alike in the course where in eagle-flight + 

Raced runners with vestureless limbs white-flashing, + 

And when with the shields on their shoulders clashing + 

Men ran arrayed in the harness of fight, + 