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Title: The Extant Odes of Pindar
Author: Pindar
Translator: Ernest Myers
Release date: January 1, 2004 [eBook #10717]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024
Language: English
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THE EXTANT
ODES OF PINDAR
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
with
INTRODUCTION AND SHORT NOTES
BY
ERNEST MYERS, M.A.
_Sometime Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford_
_First edition printed 1874._
_Reprinted (with corrections) 1884, 1888, 1892, 1895, 1899, 1904_
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 PEGASEAN, OR THE CAR
WHEREIN APOLLO RAPT THE HUNTRESS MAID.
SO LET ME RANGE MINE HOUR, TOO SOON TO FADE
INTO STRANGE PRESENC…