If someone chances to hit first, he gets a trophy;
but for a man is a good and dutiful citizen,
even if he conquers everyone in honesty,
there is no trophy
κἄν τις τύχῃ πρῶτος, εἴληφε χειρόνιπτρον,
ἀνὴρ δ᾿ ὅταν τις ἀγαθὸς ᾖ καὶ χρήσιμος πολίτης,
νικᾷ τε πάντας χρηστὸς ὤν, οὔκ ἔστι
χειρόνιπτρον
I cheated a bit on χειρόνιπτρον, but I thought that “trophy” would make more sense in English…