42, 43.

47, 48.

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2. καλῶν ἐπιχωρίων.] • Local glories;' the phrase is used in a rather different sense, Pyth. v. 108.

3. ἡ ῥα.] Cf. Pyth. ix. 37, xr. 38. χαλκοκρότου.] An epithet of Rhea transferred to Dêmêtêr, worshipped Iwith clash of bronze,' i. e. of cymbals or ἡχεῖα.

πάρεδρον.] The connection between Dionysos and Dêmêtêr, wine and corn, is natural: Ter. Eun. 4. 5. 6, sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus. They are represented together on several antique gems. Mariette, Traité des pierres gravées, II. p. 1, Ρl. ΧΧΧΙΙ.

5. χρυσῷ νίφοντα.] ‘Snowing gold at midnight.' For the dative ef. Isth. iv. 50, Nikophon (Athenaeos, vi. p. 269 Ε), νιφέτω μὲν ἀλφίτοις | ψακαζέτω δ ̓ ἄρτοισιν, ὑέτω

ΙΟ

δ ̓ ἔτνει. For the adverbial use of adjective cf. Οl. ΧΙν. 11, ΧΙΙΙ. 17. L. and S., regardless of order, join μεσ. δεξαμένα, but as the legends of Zeus and showers of gold at Argos and Rhodes (Ol. VII. 34, Philostr. Imag. 2. 27, Ροδίοις δὲ λέγεται χρυσὸς ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ῥεῦσαι καὶ διαπλῆσαι σφῶν τὰς οἰκίας καὶ στενωποὺς νεφέλην ἐς αὐτοὺς ῥήξαντος τοῦ Διός) very likely rested at least partly on a shower of meteors, μεσονύκτιον is quite appropriately attached to viφοντα. It seems as if one of these stories attached to πολύχρυσοι, ἀγλααὶ Θῆβαι.

7. γοναῖς.] Cf. Nem. x. 17. Dative of purpose; Schol. Vet. ἐπὶ ταῖς Ἡ. γ. Cf. Isth. VII. 27. Dissen compares however Nem. x. 69, ¿popμαθεὶς ἄκοντι θεῷ.

8. Edd., after Heyne, needlessly read πυκναῖς Τειρεσίαο, but by taking ías y (the accent going back in pronunciation to the preceding syllable) we can keep to the мss. In this line and the next ör' scans

one long syllable; Mommsen reads for nè in both places. For ἀμφὶ βουλαῖς, ἀμφ' Ιόλαον, concerning, after εὔφρανας θυμὸν τεὸν mentally supplied from above, cf. O. and P. p. xxxvii. The construction of ἀμφὶ with two different cases but the same sense in consecutive lines is remarkable.

10. Σπαρτών.] The warriors who sprung from the sown teeth of the dragon slain by Kadmos. The five survivors of their internecine fight (Ov. Met. III. 126) helped Kadmos to found Thebes and founded five Theban families. The gen. is causal, cf. Madv. § 61 b, Rem. 1.

ἀλαλᾶς.] Cf. Nem. III. 60, where in the note read a comma after Pyth. Ι. 72.

12. For the theme cf. Pyth. v.

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20

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64-76, Pyth. 1. 65. For the order Δωρίδ ̓ ἀποικίαν... Λακεδαιμονίων cf. Isth. III. 36, Pyth. iv. 214-216.

12, 13. ὀρθῷ ἐπὶ σφυρῷ.] Cf. Hor. Epp. II. 1. 176, securus cadat an recto stet fabula talo, where Orelli quotes Pers. 5. 104, recto vivere talo, Eur. Helen. 1449, ὀρθῷ βῆναι ποδί. Cf. also Οl. ΧΙΙΙ. 72, ἀνὰ δ ̓ ἔπαλτ' ὀρθῷ ποδί. Kallim. in Dian. 128, τῶν δ ̓ οὐδὲν ἐπὶ σφυρὸν ὀρθὸν ἀνέστη.

15. μαντεύμασι.] Causal dative. 16. ảλλà...ɣáp.] 'But, since....' κώμας' ἔπειτεν, then, this being the case, celebrate, &c. The ἀλλὰ dismisses the topic of the ancient glories of Thebes somewhat sadly, still they are not dead but only asleep, cf. Isth. III. 41.

17. ἀμνάμονες.] A hit at the Lacedaemonians for not helping Thebes before Oenophyta. 18. σοφίας.] Poetry. ἄωτον.] Cf. Isth. I. 51.

19. κλυταῖς.] • Sounding? Cf. Ol. xiv. 19, Isth. v. 17.

30 ̓Αντ. β'.

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30 ζώων τ ̓ ἀπὸ καὶ θανών.

The

ῥοαῖσιν] Dat. of means with ἐξίκηται, of remote object with ζυγέν. ζυγέν.] Cf. Isth. III. 3. metaphor is here of a tree planted by the water side, only slightly different from that of Nem. VIII. 40. Edd. placed a full stop after this word.

20. κώμας.] Revel in the komos.'

21. Στρεψιάδα.] Dat. commodi, cf. Nem. II. 24.

φέρει.] ‘He is winner of, cf. Nem. III. 18.

22. νίκαν παγκρατίου.] Cf. Isth. ιν. 19, ἀρετὰ παγκρατίου.

σθένει, κ.τ.λ.] Cf. Nem. III. 19, Ο1. VIII. 19, ΙΧ. 94 for sentiment ; also Isth. v. 47-49.

ἄγει ἀρετάν.] ‘He holds virtue to be as fair a possession as fair physique (Isth. v. 47). For ἄγει cf. Soph. Αnt. 34, τὸ πρᾶγμ' ἄγειν | οὐχ ὡς παρ' οὐδέν. Dissen renders ἄγει, ‘habet'...veluti merces, opes,

Od. 1. 184.

αἴσχιον.] Predicative, as is usual with this construction. For such

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'Eπ. B'.

an accusative which Cookesley says does not occur cf. Madv. § 1b, Rem. 3, χρησιμώτερον νομίζουσι χρήματα ἢ ἀδελφούς (Xen. Memor. 2. 3. 1). Dissen does not take the neuter adjective as predicative, though Matthiae, to whom he refers, gives no parallel case. Mommsen reads αἰσχίω.

23. φλέγεται.] Cf. Οl. Ιx. 22, Isth. III. 61.

δ'.] . Accordingly, 'ef. Isth. III. 90. ἰοβοστρύχοισι.] So Schmid. MSS. δ' ἰοπλοκάμοισι against scansion, Mommsen δὲ Γιοπλόκοισι. Cf. Ol. VI. 30.

24. κοινόν.] Cf. Pyth. v. 96, νι. 15. Of interest to him.”

θάλος.] • Wreath, but used with reference to vv. 18, 19.

25. An inversion of the use of μίσγω found Οl. Ι. 22.

26. ἀντίκειται.] Is the meed in return for their life.

27. For metaphor cf. Isth. iv. 49, Simonides, Frag. 89, 106. 28. ἀμύν.] Thiersch, ἄντα φέρων. 30. ζώων.] Participle.

ἀποθανών.] Tmesis.

31. Strepsiadas, the uncle of the victor.

32. alvéwv.]'Aemulatus,' Dissen. Meleagros was brother to Hêrakles' wife Deianeira, and is thus connected with Theban legends. Hektôr was said to be buried in Thebes by the fountain Oedipodia, Paus.

IX. 18. Aristot. (Pseudepigraph.

Bergk 46 [41]), Εκτορι τόνδε μέγαν Βοιώτιοι ἄνδρες ἔτευξαν τύμβον ὑπὲρ γαίης, σῆμ ̓ ἐπιγιγνομένοις. These two heroes fell fighting for their country like Strepsiadas, the victor's uncle. The allusion to Amphiaraos is less special, but not open to reasonable objection. Bergk's violent alteration to av' ̓Αμφιάρειον involving alterations of the two corresponding verses is quite unwarrantable. If Strepsiadâs fell near Amphiarâos' shrine, that would quite account for the mention of the hero.

34. ἁλικίαν.] 'His manhood's prime in its full blossom.' Cf. Simonidês, Frag. 114 [61], ap' iμepτὴν ἔπνεεν ἡλικίην.

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ἁρμόζων.

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Αντ. γ'.

36. ἔσχον πολέμοιο νεῖκος.] Homeric, cf. Il. xiv. 57, xiii. 271. ἐλπίσιν.] For the sense cf. Nem. I. 32.

38. For metaphor cf. Isth. ΙΙΙ. 35.

40. ἐφάμερον.] Not short-lived, L. and S., but in diem. Cf. Eur. Cycl. 336, φαγεῖν τοὐφ' ἡμέραν.

διώκων.] For the (to us) inversion of participle and verb cf. Isth. ιν. 56, ν. 15. For sentiment cf. Pyth. VIII. 92, ἐν δ ̓ ὀλίγῳ βροτῶν | τὸ τερπνὸν αὔξεται. οὕτω δὲ καὶ πιτνεῖ χαμαί, | ἀποτρόπῳ γνώμα σεσεισμένον. Cookesley quotes, Ille potens sui laetusque deget cui licet in diem | dixisse uiri. Hor. Od. III. 29, 41.

41. The poet himself was about sixty-six at the assumed date of this ode, but the prayer is of general application. Here exaλos seems to mean "in unambitious ease," i. e. holding aloof from party strife. He seems to warn his oligarchical hearers not to aim at supremacy in the state, but to rest content in the assurance that democratic

Ἐπ. γ'.

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licence, τὸ πὰρ δίκαν γλυκύ, will be punished in good time.

44. παπταίνει.] Cf. Ol. I. 114, Isth. γιι. 13.

βραχύς.] 'Too puny to,' cf. Nem. x. 19 for construction, and for sentiment Pyth. x. 27, ὁ χάλκεος οὐρα νὸς οὔ ποτ ̓ ἀμβατὸς αὐτοῖς.

ὅ τοι.] mss. ὅτι (so Böckh, " quandoquidem”). Schol. ὁ γὰρ δή.

45. Medic. mss. ἐθέλοντεσ οὐρα νοὺσ σταθμούσ.

47. Ζηνός.] For order cf. O.

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and P. p. xxxvi, Isth. iv. 19, 20, 43, 44, v. 28, 30, ib. 39, 40, vii. 28, 29, ib. 49, 50.

49. χρυσέᾳ.] Lit. “ with luxuriant golden hair." The Pythian games fell about four months after the first Isthmian games in an Olympiad.

51. εὐανθέα.] Cf. supra, v. 34. καί.] ‘Even. Πυθόϊ.] So Choeroboskos (Bekker, Anec., Tom. III. p. 1202). Perhaps αϊδόϊ should be read II. x. 238.