The Odes of Pindar, Literally Tr. Into Engl. Prose by D.W. Turner. to Which Is Adjoined a Metrical Version by A. Moore
by Pindarus (9781150012570)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: OLYMPIAN XII. Inscribed to Ergoteles of Himera, victorious in the long race-course: Ol. 77, 1. B. C. 472: sung at Himera, apparently in the temple of Fortune. ARGUMENT. 1 -- 12: The poet invokes Fortune for the preservation of the city of Himera. 13 -- end: He addresses Ergoteles himself, who has experienced both good and evil at the hands of the goddess. O Saviour Fortune, child of Eleutherian Zeus, a guard, I beseech thee, potent Himera. For by thee, in the ocean are guided swift ships, and on the land 'rapid wars and assemblies fruitful in counsel; but the hopes of men are tossed about, often aloft and then again down, as they cut the vain sea of error, and no one yet of mortal men hath found a sure markb from the Deity concerning a future event; but of what is about to happen the knowledge is blind. And many a thing has fallen out to men contrary to their judgment, the reverse of delight; and others, who have met with hostile surges, have in a short space exchanged vast good for evil. c Surely, too, O son of Philanor, thy mighty strength of foot, like ilwA of a dunghill cock, d would, by thy paternal hearth, have withered without renown, had not faction, in which man is set against man, deprived thee of thy Cnossian native land. But now, O Ergoteles, having won the wreath in Olympia, and twice having ca/rried it off from Pytho, and twice on the Isthmus, thou dost exalt the nymphs' warm baths,0 dwelling as thou dost on a soil now thine own. v. 1: or, ? of Zeus that gave liberty to Himera. b v. 7: or, method of conjecture. v. 12: i. e. have gained good instead of evil fortune. d v. ...

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