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altered to νῦν and σοὶ δόξαι, συν δόξαν, σὸν and νιν δόξα (with περᾶσαι). L. and S. give Böckh's περάσαις (έν). Others alter περάσαι σὺν into περᾶσαι σὺν οι περᾶσαι νιν. Mezger rightly defends Mss. and Scholia. For -σαι σὺν cf. I. 3. 17. 10 ἀτρώτῳ For the metaphor cf. N. 1. 48. "Without annoy.' He might have discharged the duties of his office with credit' amid continual dangers and anxieties.

11 άνδρα Εmphatic, et. Ρ. 2. 29. The meaning is almost 'So far as I may congratulate a manI deem his father Arkesilas blessed, and I laud his (Aristagoras') admirable form and innate hardihood.' I agree with Mezger in making avdpa refer to Aristagoras, but I take άνδρα as an accusativus pendens; though μακαρίζω takes & double accusative. See Aristoph. Vesp. 588 τουτί γάρ τοί σε μόνον τούτων ὧν εἴρηκας μακαρίζω (Fanshawe). The sense might be the same. On the man do I congratulate his father, aye on his (the man's) form.' I cannot see the point of congratulating the son upon his father, who kept him from winning the Olympian and Pythian games (v. 22). Again if ävòpa is Arkesilas, his too is the θαητὸν δέμας κ.τ.λ. No doubt the passage is unsatisfactory. I think TEKOS Αρκεσίλα may have got corrupted through the incorporation of a

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marginal note. Dissen is probably right in recognising the zeugma, the sense of αινέω being drawn from μακαρίζω with τὸ θαητὸν δέμας κ.τ.λ. Note that μέν is answered by δέ, v. 13; though I praise, let him remember.' Otherwise Mezger and Dissen citing O. 5. 10.

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ἐπέδειξεν Frequentative aorist. The future παραμεύσεται refers to moments of future selfsatisfaction on the part of Aristagoras, as well as to the future generally.

15 Let him remember that the frame which he bedecks is mortal and that at the last of all he shall don a vesture of earth.' Cf. "muddy vesture of decay." For construction cf. O. 6. 8, I. 1. 68. περιστέλλων Cf. Eur. Alc. 663 (παῖδας οι) θανόντα σε | περιστελοῦσι καὶ προθήσονται νεκρόν. The verb περιστέλλω is the regular word for arraying a body for the funeral. For the participle with μέμνημαι cf. Soph. Oed. R. 49 1. ἀρχῆς δὲ τῆς σῆς μηδαμῶς μεμνώμεθα | στάντες κ.τ.λ.

16 τελευτάν Accusative in apposition with the sentence; cf. Ö. 2. 4, 7. 16, I. 3. 7, Aesch. Ag. 225. Here the use is similar to that of

the "adverbial" ἀρχήν. γάν ἐπιΡεσσ. For the phrase Don. cites Aesch. Αg. 869 εἰ δ ̓ ἦν τεθνηκώς, ὡς ἐπλήθυον λόγοι, | τρισώματος των Γηρύων ὁ δεύτερος | ...χθονός τρί μοιρον χλαῖναν ἐξηύχει λαβών, | ἅπαξ

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ἑκάστῳ κατθανὼν μορφώματι; Ν. 8. 88. Hemsterhuis (on Hesych. 1. 1352) besides the references in L. and S. gives Simonides, apud Athen. 3. p. 125 D, 168 [227] αὐτὰρ (χιών) εκάμφθη (Porson ἐθάφθη) | ζωὴ Πιερίην γῆν ἐπιεσσαμένη. Eur. Troad. 1148 γῆν τῷδ ̓ ἐπαμπισο χόντες. This warning to avoid exCessive pride is peculiarly appro priate in an official ode composed for a civic magistrate.

17 λόγοις ‘Friendly (fair) discussions. Cf. N. 8. 21. For ev cf.

P. 5. 97, v. 9 supra. ἀγαθοῖσί νιν Mommsen. 188. τοῖς μὲν.

18 For sentiment cf. O. 6. 6, 7. μελιζέμεν The infinitive goes with μελιγδούποισι (Madv. § 150), and και couples ἐν λόγοις δαιδαλθέντα. There is a kind of etymological play on μελι-. With Pindar song is 'honey.' The exceptional synizesis ἀοιδαῖs does not warrant alteration. Mezger supposes that there is a change of subject. The papyrus of Bacchylides supports Pauw's μετ λίζεν, which avoids the unusual synizesis. Hermann alters to μέσ λειν ἐν : Mommsen to μεμίχθ ̓ ἐν.

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half personification of the Victories here. Note that ἐκ περικτ. should not be taken with νίκαι but with the verb, meaning on the authority of, at the instance of the neighbouring peoples.' The dé' for.'

21 μεγαυχεῖ Schmid for 188. μεγαλαυχεῖ.

22 ἐλπίδες όκνηρότεραι Τοο great diffidence.' Literally Too shrinking apprehensions.' We can speak of confident hopes but hardly of ' diflident or timid hopes. For ἐλπίς cf. N. 1. 32.

23 ἔσχον For the inf. without μή, cf. Soph. Αj. 70 αὐγὰς ἀπείρξω σὴν πρόσοψιν εἰσιδεῖν, I. 1. 60.

24 γάρ 'For else. ἐμὰν δόξαν Cf. Aristoph. Par 232 καὶ γὰρ ἐξιέναι, γνώμην εμήν, | μέλλει. These are accusatives of extent, range, sphere, like τὸ ἐμὸν μέρος, τὸ κατ ̓ ἐμέ : but instead of qualitying the action or state predicated, they qualify (make conditional) the predication, like an infinitive, e.g. δοκεῖν εἰπεῖν ἀκούειν, with or without ws. παρά Here and in the next line to be taken after δηριώντων, while μολών = had he gone (thither).' For the victor's return cf. N. 2. 24, O. 8. 67-71, P. 8. 81-87.

'ETT. Y'.

40 οὐκ ἐθέλει “Are not wont. L. and S. only give prose examples of this sense. Don. would render ἐθέλω 2s = δύναμαι here and N. 7. 90. περόδοις Γου περιόδοις, οf. περάπτων, Ρ. 3. 52.

41 πλούτῳ Είσον Dat. of manner; 'in equal abundance.'

42 ἐν ἀμείβοντι For the gerundive use, in alternation" (= άλλασ σόμεναι), of the active participle cf. Thuk. 1. 142 ἐν τῷ μὴ μελετῶντι, Madv. 180 b, Rem. 2, Soph. Oed. Col. 1219 ὅταν τις ἐς πλέον πέσῃ | τοῦ θέλοντος, Aristotle's τὸ ἀντιπεπονθός. Dem. Meid. § 59 τὸ συγκεχωρηκός. Compare our English confusion of abstract nouns in -ing with the participle (which originally in Saxon ended in -nd). Pindar's suppression of the article is noteworthy. Perhaps the usual explanation given above is wrong and έτει is to be supplied in thought from ἐτέων. καὶ οὕτως Even ΒΟ. 158. οὕτω σθένος. Text Heyne. 43 τὸ δ ̓ ἐκ Διός 'As for what comes from Zeus.' Cf. N. 2. 17 ὅσσα δ ̓ ἀμφ' ἀέθλοις | Τιμοδημίδαι ἐξοχώτατοι προλέγονται. For sentiment cf. O. 12. 7, 8, Soph. Oed. Rex 978 πρόνοια δ ̓ ἐστὶν οὐδενὸς σαφής. Ι. 7. 14, 15, Eur. Herc. Fur. 62. Bacchyl. 10. 45 f. τὸ μέλλον | δ ̓ ἀκρίτους τίκτει τελευτάς (where ἀκρίτους means • undetermined,' not admitting the effectual exercise of human judgment), Eur.

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Orest. 981 βροτῶν δ ̓ ὁ πᾶς ἀστάθμη τος αιών, perhaps a reminiscence of N. 6. 6 f., of. also O. 2. 30 ff.

ἐμβαίνομεν ' We embark upon.' Metaphor from navigation followed up in v. 46.

45 τε For the coupling of s participial clause to one containing a finite verb cf. Soph. Oed. Rex 740 τὸν δὲ Λάϊον φύσιν ] τίν' εἶχε φράζε, τίνα δ ̓ ἀκμὴν ήβης ἔχων, also 1134. Also with the participle preceding Ο. 1. 13, 14 δρέπων μὲν | ἀγλαΐ ζεται δέ, Ι. 1. 14, Aesch. Αg. 97 τούτων λέξασ ̓ ὅ τι καὶ δυνατὸν | καὶ θέμις αἰνεῖν, | παιών τε γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης: where however, as in Choeph. (557), τε seems =' accordingly' and is hardly copulative. In the present case I think the construction is κατὰ σύνεσιν, 88 though μεγαλανορίαις contained μετ γαλάνορες ὄντες. δέδεται ' Constrained.' Perhaps a metaphor from a slave chained to the oar. Cf. P. 4. 71 τίς δὲ κίνδυνος κρατεροῖς ἀδάμαντος δῆσεν ἅλοις; 3. 54 ἀλλὰ κέρδει καὶ σοφία δέδεται (with which cf. Bacchylides Frag. 43 (4). 2 ŵs 8' ἅπαξ εἰπεῖν, φρένα καὶ πυκινὰν κέρδος ἀνθρώπων βιᾶται). ἀναιδεῖ Improbus,' unconscionable,' 'unreasonable.'

46 προμαθείας Mezger and Postgate rightly join the genitive with poal. Men strive or drift in a variable, uncertain course, but foreknowledge, if they only had it,