Odes of Pindar, tr., with notes and illustr., by G. West, R.B. Greene and H.J. Pye. To which is prefixed A dissertation on the Olympic games, by the former, 1. köide1810 |
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Achilles Alpheus altar Anacharsis ancient ANTISTROPHE Apollo arms Athletes Augeas bestow cæstus Camarina candidates celebrated chaplet chariot chariot-race combatants contend daughter Diagoras Dinomenes divine Eleans Elis EPODE erected Ergoteles fair fame father festival foot-race gained Gelo glorious glory gods grace Grecians Greece Greeks gymnastic exercises hath Hellanodics Hercules hero Hiero Himera hippodrome Homer honour honour'd horses inscribed Iphitus Isthmian Jove Jupiter king labour laws learned mentioned muse Nemean Nemean Games Nero o'er observed occasion Olym Olympia Olympic conquerors Olympic crown Olympic Games OLYMPIC ODE Olympic olive particular passage Paus Pausanias Pelops pillars Pindar Pisa's plain Plutarch poet praise prize Psaumis Pythian Pythian games querors race reader reason relating Rhodians sacred sacrifices says Scholiast Sicily solemn Solon song Spartan stadium statue steeds STROPHE sung temple thee Theron thou tion Tlepolemus toil verses victory obtained virtue words wreath youth καὶ
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Page 21 - In the paths of dangerous fame Trembling cowards never tread : Yet since all of mortal frame Must be number'd with the dead, Who in dark inglorious shade Would his useless life consume, And, with deedless years decay'd, Sink unhonourM to the tomb ; I that shameful lot disdain ; I this doubtful list will prove ; May my vows from thee obtain Conquest, and the prize of love !rt ANTISTROPHE VI.
Page 68 - But wrapt in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure : . Know we what fortune yet remains behind ? Know we how long the present shall endure ? WEST.
Page 36 - Heaven's suspicious queen. Believe my nod,' the great, the certain sign, When Jove propitious hears the powers divine ; The sign that ratifies my high command, That thus I will : and what I will shall stand.
Page 1 - The character of these late Pindarics is a bundle of rambling incoherent thoughts, expressed in a like parcel of irregular stanzas, which also consist of such another complication of disproportioned, uncertain, and perplexed verses and rhymes.
Page 34 - Arrayed in golden bloom, refulgent beams; And flowers of golden hue, that blow On the fresh borders of their parent streams. These by the blest in solemn triumph worn, Their unpolluted hands and clustering locks adorn.
Page 150 - ... of his future fame, laid by the cooperation of the gods, who assisted and seconded his divine virtues ; and (adds he), if fortune continues to be favourable, he may arrive at the highest summit of glory.
Page 18 - Vengeance waits th' unhallow'd tongue. ANTISTROPHE IV. Sure, if e'er to man befel Honour from the powers divine, Who on high Olympus dwell, Tantalus, the lot was thine. But, alas', his mortal sense, All too feeble to digest The delights of bliss immense, Sicken'd at the heavenly feast...
Page 199 - Pindar, who, in allusion to this transaction, begins his ode with setting forth, " that he was no statuary, no maker of images, that could not stir from their pedestals, and consequently were to be seen only by those who would give themselves the trouble to go to the place where they were erected ; but he could make a poem which should fly over the whole earth, and publish in every place .that Pytheas had gained the crown in the Nemean games...
Page 37 - ... sacrifice there offered by Theron to those deities, and to Hercules also, as may be inferred from a passage in the third strophe of the translation. But there is another, and a more poetical propriety in Pindar's invoking these divinities, that is suggested in the Ode itself: for, after mentioning the occasion of his composing it, namely, the Olympic victory of Theron, and saying that a triumphal song was a tribute due to that person, upon whom the...