Pindar

And Pindar downright brings in Zeus the Saviour too, dwelling with Themis, the king, the saviour, the just, interpreting somewhat thus:

But on him who is conscious of no wrong that he has done a sweet hope ever attends and a goodly to be nurse of his old age, as Pindar too says.

and Pindar both for the brilliance of his nature and because he praised Alexander's own ancestor and namesake, the one surnamed the Philhellene, having composed for him the line, 'O you who bear the name of the blessed sons of Dardanus.

but engrave these verses of Pindar's on your mind.

"For Zeus, slaying my son Asclepius, is the cause, hurling the flame into his breast.

and it is, I think, rightly said in Pindar 's poem that custom is lord of all.

It would be even more absurd if, whereas Pindar, the poet, was so highly honored by our forefathers because of a single line of his in which he praises Athens as “the bulwark of Hellas” that he was made”proxenos“and given a present of ten thousand drachmas, I, on the other hand, who have glorified Athens and our ancestors with much ampler and nobler encomiums, should not even be privileged to end my days in peace.

But indeed Pindar did not conceal his merit:

There is too that lyric poet — Pindar I mean — who sings that Aesculapius, for the desert of his avarice, because he practised medicine to men's hurt, was condemned by the thunderbolt.

you have Pindar and Callimachus, who records too that Apollo, after the dragon Delphyne was slain, put on the laurel, in which he was a suppliant—for among the ancients suppliants were crowned.