# Pindar (Morice)

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Part of the "Ancient Classics for English Readers" series (Supplementary Series, Vol. VIII), the books of which series are useful as a preliminary acquaintance to readers that wish to read the ancient texts for the first time and also a nice interpretation of them for readers that are already acquainted with them. In this volume, the Odes of Pindar are presented, with explanatory notes and interpretive commentary.
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PINDAR
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PINDAR
BY THE
REV. F. D. MORICE, M.A.
FELLOW OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD; AND ASSISTANT-MASTER IN RUGBY SCHOOL
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
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MDCCCLXXIX
PREFACE.
The metrical translations in this volume to which the initial "S" is appended, are taken, by the kind permission of their author, from an anonymously published work by the present Lord Bishop of Salisbury and former Head-master of Winchester College, under whose instruction I made, as a boy, my first acquaintance with that poetry of Pindar, which has remained ever since among my favourite studies. For versions with no distinguishing initial I am myself responsible. Most of the latter have aheady appeared in my translation of the "Olympian and Pythian Odes" (H. S. King & Co., London: 1876).
On points of interpretation my chief authorities have been Boeckh and Dissen; of general history, Grote; of literary history, Bernhardy; of topography, Wordsworth, Clark, and Isambert ("Guide-Joanne, Grêce ​et Turquie d'Europe"). Other obligations I have tried to acknowledge as they arose, in so far as this could be done without encumbering the pages with an abundance of notes and references.
For reasons which the reader will find explained in the body of the work, I have thought it desirable to treat of the separate Odes, neither in their chronological order, nor according to their traditional division into the Four Books of Olympians, Pythians, Nemeans, and Isthmians. But as the latter arrangement has been followed (I believe) without exception by editors and translators, it has seemed convenient that the Table of Contents should be followed by a further Table or Index, showing, in what chapter of my book the chief mention of each Ode is to be found.
F. D. M.
Rugby, 1878.
CONTENTS.
TABLE OF ODES.
| Ol. | 1 | | see Chap. | vi | Pyth. | 1 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | see Chap. | vii | Nem. | 1 | | see Chap. | vii |
| Ol. | 2 | | . . . | vii | Pyth. | 2 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | see Chap. | vii | Nem. | 2 | | . . . | xi |
| Ol. | 3 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | vi | Pyth. | 3 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | see Chap. | vii | Nem. | 3 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | x |
| Ol. | 4 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | vi | Pyth. | 4 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | ix | Nem. | 4 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | x |
| Ol. | 5 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | vi | Pyth. | 5 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | ix | Nem. | 5 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | x |
| Ol. | 6 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | vii | Pyth. | 6 | | . . . | vii | Nem. | 6 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | x |
| Ol. | 7 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | vii | Pyth. | 7 | | . . . | xi | Nem. | 7 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | x |
| Ol. | 8 | | . . . | x | Pyth. | 8 | | . . . | x | Nem. | 8 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | x |
| Ol. | 9 | | . . . | xi | Pyth. | 9 | | . . . | xi | Nem. | 9 | | . . . | vii |
| Ol. | 10 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | vi | Pyth. | 10 | | . . . | iii | Nem. | 10 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | xi |
| Ol. | 11 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | vi | Pyth. | 11 | | . . . | x | Nem. | 11 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | xi |
| Ol. | 12 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | vi | Pyth. | 12 | | . . . | iv | Nem. |
| Ol. | 13 | | . . . | xi | Pyth. | | | | | Isthm. | 1 | | . . . | x |
| Ol. | 14 | | . . . | vi | Pyth. | | | | | Isthm. | 2 | | . . . | vii |
| Ol. | | | | | Pyth. | | | | | Isthm. | 3 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | x |
| Ol. | | | | | Pyth. | | | | | Isthm. | 4 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | x |
| Ol. | | | | | Pyth. | | | | | Isthm. | 5 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | x |
| Ol. | | | | | Pyth. | | | | | Isthm. | 6 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | x |
| Ol. | | | | | Pyth. | | | | | Isthm. | 7 | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | . . . | x |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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