τὸν μὲν οὐ κατελέγχει κριτοῦ γενεὰ πατραδελφεοῦ· ἁλίκων τῷ τις ἁβρὸν ἀμφὶ παγκρατίου Κλεάνδρῳ πλεκέτω 145 μυρσίνας στέφανον. ἐπεί νιν ̓Αλκαθόου τ ̓ ἀγὼν σὺν τύχα ἐν Ἐπιδαύρῳ τε πρὶν ἔδεκτο νεότας τὸν αἰνεῖν ἀγαθῷ παρέχει 7ο ἥβαν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρον ὑπὸ χειᾷ καλῶν δάμασεν. 66. Κλεάνδρῳ.] Dat. Commodi ' in honour of.' ἁλίκων τῷ τις.] Cf. supra, v. 1 and for τῷ υ. 5. 67. μυρσίνας.] Cf. Isth. III. 87. The revellers in the kômos were to wear wreaths of myrtle. ̓Αλκαθόου.] The games at Me gara held in celebration of the death of Alkathoos son of Pelops. σὺν τύχα.] • With prosperous issue. Cf. Nem. VII. 11, x. 25. 68. MSS. ἐν Ε. τε νεότας πρὶν ἔδεκτο. Hermann. ἐν Ε. τε ν. δέκετο πρίν. The text is Bergk's and also mine. 96 150 69. παρέχει.] Cf. Eur. El. 1080, καίτοι καλῶς γε σωφρονεῖν παρεῖχέ σοι [Mezger]. Cf. also Herod. I. 9, III. 142. It is easy, opportunity presents itself.' Note that it requires aperà to appreciate and duly celebrate ἀρετά. 70. For he did not make his youth a thrall to obscurity for lack of essaying noble deeds.' Strictly ὑπὸ χειᾷ goes with ἄπειρον having no experience (through keeping close) in a nook (hole)—of noble deeds. For the general meaning cf. Isth. III. 48. The order is strained. I. ΙΣΘΜΙΟ ΝΙΚΑΙ. 1. [4.] * Κλεινὸς Αἰακοῦ λόγος, κλεινὰ δὲ καὶ ναυσικλυτὸς Ὕλλου τε καὶ Αἰγιμιοῦ Δωριεὺς ἐλθὼν στρατὸς 5 οὐ θέμιν οὐδὲ δίκαν ξείνων ὑπερβαίνοντες· οἷοι δ ̓ ἀρετὰν δελφίνες ἐν πόντῳ, ταμίαι τε σοφοί Μοισᾶν ἀγωνίων τ ̓ ἀέθλων. 14. = Β' 2. ὁ δὲ θέλων τε καὶ δυνάμενος ἁβρὰ πάσχειν 1. Given in the Medicean family of MSS., apparently the exordium of Isth. VIII [ix]. 1. 2. αἴσα.] Cf. Nem. VI. 49. 1. 3, 4. Cf. Pyth. 1. 61-65. 1. 5. Cf. Ol. VIII. 20—30, Pyth. VIII. 21-27. 1. 6. δελφίνες.] For their speed cf. Pyth. II. 50, 51, Nem. νι. 66, Frag. 219 [258]. ταμίαι.] Cf. Nem. VI. 27. 1.7. ἀέθλων.] Prizes. 1 4. Schol. Lucian. Dial. Mort. III. Edited from Vatican ms. (Pal. 73) by E. Rhode, Philologus, xxxv. 199. The Schol. ascribes the above fragment to one of Pindar's Isthmian (Ms. ICOΜΙΟΝΙΚΩΝ) odes in honour of the Rhodian boxer Kasmylos (cf. Simonides, Epig. 154 [212], Εἰπὸν τίς, τίνος ἐσσί, τίνος πατρίδος, τί δ' ἐνίκης ; | Κασ μύλος, Ευαγόρου, Πύθια πύξ, Ρόδιος. 1 Α. 1. ἁβρὰ πάσχειν.] Cf. Solon, 24 [5], 4. 1 A. 2. Cf. Frag. 31 [26]. 2. [1.] = Β4 5. Αἰολίδαν δὲ Σίσυφον κέλοντο ἀποφθιμένῳ Μελικέρτᾳ. 3. [2.] = Β' 7. ὅστις δὴ τρόπος ἐξεκύλισέ νιν. 4. [3.] = Β' 8. Eustath. Od. μ'. 1715, 63, ὅτι δοκεῖ τὸ τοιοῦτον κατὰ γένος εἰρῆσθαι οὐδέτερον, ὡς ἐμφαίνει Πίνδαρος ἐν Ἰσθμιονίκαις εἰπὼν τρία κράτα ἤτοι κράατα. 5. = B1 9. Serv. Virg. Georg. I. 31, “Generum vero pro marito positum multi accipiunt,...nam et Pindarus ἐν τοῖς Ἰσθμίοις γαμβρὸς ἀντὶ τοῦ νυμφίον dixit.” II. ΥΜΝΟΙ. ΥΜΝΟΣ Α ΘΗΒΑΙΟΙΣ. 6. 7. [5. 6.]= B* 29. 30. 6. Ἰσμηνὸν ἢ χρυσαλάκατον Μελίαν, 2. The Isthmian games were originally founded as the funeral games of Melikertes. This fragment is preserved as τὸ ἐν Ισθμιονίκαις Πινδάρου by Apollonios Dyskolos, de Synt. II. 21, p. 156, where he explains that ᾧ is not τῷ Σισύφου, for Pindar calls Melikertes Αθαμαντιάδα (Bergk 4, Frag. 6), but τῷ αὐτῆς, i.e. Ἰνους. So the Introductory Schol. to the Isthmians says χορεύουσαι τοίνυν ποτὲ αἱ Νηρείδες ἐφάνησαν τῷ Σισύφω καὶ ἐκέλευσαν ἐς τιμὴν τοῦ Μελικέρ του ἄγειν τὰ Ἴσθμια. 3. Apollon. Dyskol. de Pron. p. 368 A, as an instance of viv plural. ms. ἐξεκυλίσθη. 6. Lucian. Demosth. Encom. c. 19; also (vv. 1-5 Táv-) Plutarch. ἢ Κάδμον, ἢ σπαρτῶν ἱερὸν γένος ἀνδρῶν, ἢ τὸ πάντολμον σθένος Ηρακλέος, 5 ἢ τὰν Διωνύσου πολυγαθέα τιμάν, ἢ γάμον λευκωλένου Αρμονίας ὑμνήσομεν... ; * * 7. Πρῶτον μὲν εὔβουλον Θέμιν οὐρανίαν χρυσέαισιν ἵπποις Ὠκεανοῦ παρὰ παγᾶν Μοῖραι ποτὶ κλίμακα σεμνὰν ἄγον Οὐλύμπου λιπαρὰν καθ ̓ ὁδὸν 5 σωτῆρος ἀρχαίαν ἄλοχον Διὸς ἔμμεν ὁ δὲ τὰς χρυσάμπυκας ἀγλαοκάρπους τίκτεν ἀλαθέας Ωρας. * 8. [7.]= B* 31. Aristid. II. 142, Πίνδαρος δὲ τοσαύτην ὑπερβολὴν ἐποιήσατο, ὥστε ἐν Διὸς γάμῳ καὶ τοὺς θεοὺς αὐτούς φησιν ἐρομένου τοῦ Διός, εἴ του δέοιντο, αἰτῆσαι ποιήσασθαί τινας αὑτῷ θεούς, οἵτινες τὰ με γάλα ταῦτ ̓ ἔργα καὶ πᾶσάν γε δὴ τὴν ἐκείνου κατασκευὴν κατακοσ‐ μήσουσι λόγοις καὶ μουσικῇ. Cf. Choric. Gaz. p. 305 ed. de Glor. Athen. c. 14, where is the story of Korinna having criticised Pindar's sparing use of myths, whereupon he composed this hymn δειξαμένου δὲ τῇ Κορίννῃ γελάσασα ἐκείνη τῇ χειρὶ δεῖν ἔφη σπείρειν ἀλλὰ μὴ ὅλῳ τῷ θυλάκῳ τῷ γὰρ ὄντι συγκεράσας καὶ συμφορήσας πανσπερμίαν τινὰ μύθων ὁ Πίνδαρος εἰς τὸ μέλος ἐξέχεεν. The Schol. on Nem. x. 1 tells us by implication that it was composed for the Thebans, and the Schol. Lucian. l.c. that this was the beginning of Pindar's Hymns (as collected and published). 6. 1. Μελίαν.] Cf. Pyth. xi. 4. For Μελίαι, a kind of nymphs, cf. Hes. Theog. 187. For the style, cf. Boisson., ἐποίησε Πίνδαρος καὶ θεοὺς ὀκνοῦντας ὑμνῆσαι τὰς τοῦ Διὸς εἰς ἀνθρώπους φιλοτιμίας. Ὃς καὶ τυπεὶς ἁγνῷ πελέκει τέκετο ξανθὰν ̓Αθάναν. * 11B. [10.]= B* 35. Κείνων λυθέντων σαῖς ὑπὸ χερσίν, ἄναξ. Πότνια Θεσμοφόρε χρυσάνιον...... 9. Altered by Böckh from Aristides, II. 383, ἀλλ' ὅτι κάν τοῖς Ὕμνοις διεξιὼν περὶ τῶν ἐν ἅπαντι τῷ χρόνῳ συμβαινόντων παθημάτων τοῖς ἀνθρώποις καὶ τῆς μεταβολῆς τὸν Κάδμον φησὶν (Πίνδαρος) ἀκοῦσαι τοῦ ̓Απόλλωνος μουσικὰν ὀρθὰν ἐπιδεικνυμένου. Plutarch. de Pyth. Oracl. c. 6. Cf. Pyth. III. 90. 10. Plutarch. Quaest. Platon. VIII. 4. *Ανακτα τόν.] mss. ἄνα τῶν. Text Hermann. 11 Α. Hephaestiôn, 91. An example of the Pindaricus versus not especially ascribed to Pindar, 11 B. Ib. An example of the Iambelegus, given just after a verse of Pindar. 12. Schol. Pyth. ΙΧ. 89. Cf. Pyth. iv. 16. Pausanias, Ix. 16, tells us that Pindar dedicated a statue by Kalamis for a temple of this god at Thebes, and that a hymn to Ammôn sent by the poet to his Libyan temple was there preserved in Pausanias' time on a three-sided stêlê. Cf. Frag. 36. 13. Vit. Pind. Cod. Vrat. A, (O. and P. p. xii. lines 8, 9), where |