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The ARGUMENT.

The Poet praiſes Hiero for his juſtice, his wifdom, and his skill in muſick. He likewiſe celebrates the horſe that won the race, and the place where the Olympick Games were performed. From the place (namely Peloponneſus) he takes an occaſion of digreſſing to the known fable of Tantalus and Pelops; whence, returning to Hiero, he ſets forth the felicity of the Olympian Victors. Then be concludes by praying to the gods, to preſerve the glory and dignity of Hiero, admoniſhing him to moderation of mind, in his high ſtation, and, laſtly, glories in his own excellency in compoſitions of this kind.

STROPHE I.⁠Meaſures 18.

EACH element to water yields;

Amidſt the ſtores of wealth that builds

The mind aloft, is eminently bright

But if, my ſoul, with fond deſire ⁠5

To ſing of games thou doſt aſpire,

As thou by day can'ſt not deſcry,

Through all the liquid waſte of sky,

One burniſh'd ſtar, that like the ſun does glow,

And cheriſh every thing below, ⁠10

So, my ſweet ſoul, no toil divine,

In ſong, does like the Olympian ſhine:

Hence do the mighty poets raiſe

A hymn, of every tongue the praiſe,

The ſon of Saturn to reſound, ⁠15

When far, from every land, they come

To viſit Hiero's regal dome,

Where peace, where plenty, is for ever found:

ANTISTROPHE I.⁠Meaſures 18.

Lord of Sicilia's fleecy plains,

He governs, righteous in his power, ⁠20

And, all excelling while he reigns,

From every lovely virtue crops the flower:

In muſick, bloſſom of delight,

Divinely skill'd, he cheers the night,

As we are wont, when friends deſign ⁠25

To feaſt and wanton o'er their wine:

But from the wall the Dorian harp take down,

If Piſa, city of renown,

And if the fleet victorious ſteed,

The boaſt of his unrival'd breed, ⁠30

Heart-pleaſing raptures did inſpire,

And warm thy breaſt with ſacred fire,

When late, on Alpheus' crouded ſhore,

Forth-ſpringing quick, each nerve he ſtrain'd,

The warning of the ſpur diſdain'd, ⁠35

And ſwift to victory his maſter bore,

EPODE I.⁠Meaſures 16.

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No race, no people has ever been free from slavery, either as slave or as master. Every race and every people ever enslaved became at every opportunity enslavers themselves:

Greek enslaved by Greek in the time of Aristotle, black enslaved by black since time immemorial in Africa and in the 19'th century, the American south. Slavery was never predicated on race except as circumstances rendered it. Many of the vast number of slaves of ancient Rome were fair skinned, fair haired Germans and Anglo Saxons.

The universal truth of slavery, that it has been throughout history one of the defining manifestations of human nature, has been suppressed both by history and by that nature.

The enduring myth that slavery was imposed on Africa by outside forces, that it was introduced by the Portuguese in 1444, is belied by the fact that slavery and the slave trade were ancient and commonplace within Africa long before the arrival of any white slaver. (The trans-Sahara slave trade route between West and North Africa likely had it's beginnings as early as 1000 B.C., hundreds of years before the Ethiopians, long enslaved by Egypt, conquered and gave to Egypt its Twenty-Fifth Dynasty; hundreds of years before Homer wrote in the Iliad that half the soul of man was lost when "the day of slavery" came upon him.")

"Slavery was widespread in Africa," writes Professor John Thornton in Africa and the Africans in 'The Making of the Atlantic World, 1400 - 1800,' "because slaves were the only form of private, revenue producing property recognized in African law."

To the 'odehye' - the freeborn - elite of West Africa, the outside forces of Europe, England and the Americas imposed no evil, but merely presented a new market, increased demand, and lucrative new export opportunities that the indigenous powers welcomed and readily exploited.

We bewail our past as slaves - experienced or ancestral, real or fancied - but never commemorate our enslavement of others.

Only circumstance separates slave from master; and for much of history, freedom and the will to enslave have been one. The oppressed, in the blessing of their deliverance, become the oppressors.

"The ox," said Aristotle, "is the poor man's slave."

Are 'liens race-ists?

Google says, yes.

"Pseudoarchaeology and the Racism Behind Ancient Aliens"

Where, exactly, the idea of ancient aliens building the pyramids began — and why some academics think racism lies at the heart of many extraterrestrial theories.

https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-racism-behind-ancient-aliens/

What about the movie aliens?

Yes, rayciss says the googler.

https://theconversation.com/how-hollywoods-alien-and-predator-movies-reinforce-anti-black-racism-127088

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