Odes of Pindar (Myers)

by Pindar

 

THE EXTANT

ODES OF PINDAR

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION AND SHORT NOTES

BY

ERNEST MYERS,M. A.

Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford,

And of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law

 

London:

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1874

 

 

OXFORD:

E. PICKARD HALL AND J. H. STACY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

 

 

SON OF THE LIGHTNING, FAIR AND FIERY STAR,
STRONG-WINGED IMPERIAL PINDAR, VOICE DIVINE,
LET THESE DEEP DRAUGHTS OF THY ENCHANTED WINE
LIFT ME WITH THEE IN SOARINGS HIGH AND FAR
PROUDER THAN PEGASEÄN, OR THE CAR
WHEREIN APOLLO RAPT THE HUNTRESS MAID.
SO LET ME RANGE MINE HOUR, TOO SOON TO FADE
INTO DULL PRESENCE OF THE THINGS THAT ARE.
YET KNOW THAT EVEN AMID THIS JARRING NOISE
OF HATES, LOVES, CREEDS, TOGETHER HEAPED AND HURLED,
SOME ECHO FAINT OF GRACE AND GRANDEUR STIRS
FROM THY SWEET HELLAS, HOME OF NOBLE JOYS.
FIRST FRUIT AND BEST OF ALL OUR WESTERN WORLD;
WHATE'ER WE HOLD OF BEAUTY, HALF IS HERS.

 

Sections 

• Introduction
• Prefatory Note
• Olympian Odes
  • Ol. I.
  • Ol. II.
  • Ol. III.
  • Ol. IV.
  • Ol. V.
  • Ol. VI.
  • Ol. VII.
  • Ol. VIII.
  • Ol. IX.
  • Ol. X.
  • Ol. XI.
  • Ol. XII.
  • Ol. XIII.
  • Ol. XIV.
• The Pythian Odes
  • Pyth. I.
  • Pyth. II.
  • Pyth. III.
  • Pyth. IV.
  • Pyth. V.
  • Pyth. VI.
  • Pyth. VII.
  • Pyth. VIII.
  • Pyth. IX.
  • Pyth. X.
  • Pyth. XI.
  • Pyth. XII.
• The Nemean Odes
  • Nem. I.
  • Nem. II.
  • Nem. III.
  • Nem. IV.
  • Nem. V.
  • Nem. VI.
  • Nem. VII.
  • Nem. VIII.
  • Nem. IX.
  • Nem. X.
  • Nem. XI.
• The Isthmian Odes
  • Isth. I.
  • Isth. II.
  • Isth. III.
  • Isth. IV.
  • Isth. V.
  • Isth. VI.
  • Isth. VII.
• Fragments
• Errata

 

ERRATA.

In the Introduction:

page 13, line 28, for ἀρέτη read ἀρετή
p. 20, last line on the page, for Vale read vale

In the Prefatory Note:

p. 22, l. 17, after Isthm. 2 insert 7

In the Translation:

p. 14, l. 11, for hastest read hasteth
p. 33, l. 11, for Phoebus read Phoibos
p. 43, l. 4, after Ergoteles, insert and at Pytho twice,
p. 46, l. 19, after king insert ?
p. 61, note ¹⁰, for κέρδως read κερδώ
p. 68, l. 8 of the Introduction to Ode IV, for Iolchian
read Iolkian
p. 124, l. 2, for guest read quest
p. 142, l. 13, for court read count