Bacchylides
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in the texts
Stromata
Greek lyric poet quoted from his Paeans.
"And one man is wise from another, both of old and now," says Bacchylides in his Paeans;
Let us hear again Bacchylides the lyric poet speaking of the divine:
" And when Bacchylides had said, "To few of mortals has the spirit granted, faring well at the right moment through all their time, to come to grey-templed old age before they meet with calamity," Moschion the comic poet writes, "But he is most blessed of all who, living to the end, has practised an even life.