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Pindar, LCL 485: Pindar II
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Number of quotes: 14


Book ID: 146 Page: 7

Section: 4B

Nemean 1 For Chromios of Aitna, Line 19

from Olympic festivals.{2} I have embarked on an occasion

for many topics without casting any falsehood.

Pastor John’s Note: Pindar repeatedly stressed that he was not telling lies.

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Book ID: 146 Page: 9

Section: 4B

Nemean 1, Line 31-32

I do not desire to keep great wealth

hidden away in a palace,

but to succeed with what I have and be praised for

helping friends, because to all alike come the hopes

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Book ID: 146 Page: 23

Section: 4B

1. For Aristokleidas of Aigina

Winner, Pancratium, Lines 6-8

Different deeds thirst for different rewards,

but victory in the games loves song most of all,

the fittest companion for crowned achievements.

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Book ID: 146 Page: 31

Section: 5D

Nemean 3, Lines 76-79

Of these you have no lack. Farewell, friend. I send you

this mixture of honey with white

milk, which the stirred foam crowns,

a drink of song accompanied by the Aeolian breaths of

pipes.

Quote ID: 3168

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Book ID: 146 Page: 59

Section: 2D2

Nemean 6 For Alkimidas of Aigina

Winner, Boys’ Wrestling, Lines 1-2

There is one race of men, another of gods, but from one mother{1}

we both draw our breath.

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Book ID: 146 Page: 63

Section: 4B

Nemean 6, Lines 28-30

Come, Muse, direct to that house

a glorious wind

of verses, because when men are dead and gone,

songs and words preserve for them their noble deeds,

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Book ID: 146 Page: 71

Section: 4B

Nemean 7 For Sogenes of Aigina

Winner, Boys’ Pentathlon, Lines 11-13

If a man succeeds in an exploit, he casts a honey-minded

cause{3} into the Muses’ streams, for great deeds of valor

remain in deep darkness when they lack hymns.

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Book ID: 146 Page: 73

Section: 4B

Nemean 7, Lines 20-24

...I believe that Odysseus’ story

has become greater than his actual suffering

because of Homer’s sweet verse.

for upon his fictions and soaring craft

rests great majesty, and his skill

and deceives with misleading tales.(?)

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Book ID: 146 Page: 77

Section: 4B

Nemean 7, Lines 62-63

like streams of water I shall bring genuine fame

with my praises to the man who is my friend,

for that is the proper reward for good men.

Quote ID: 3172

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Book ID: 146 Page: 147

Section: 4B

Isthmian 2

For Xenokrates of Akragas

Winner, Chariot Race, Lines 9 and the footnote

But now she bids us heed the Argive’s adage,{3}

which comes. . . closest to the truth:

“Money, money makes the man,”

{3} The scholion attributes it to Aristodemos the Spartan and quotes Alkaios (fr. 360) (GREEK) “money is the man, and no poor man is noble or honorable”

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Book ID: 146 Page: 237

Section: 2B2

Hymns Fr. 35a, Lines 36 In Honor of Ammon

Scholion on Pyth. 9.53. “He calls Libya the garden of Zeus

. . . because Ammon is considered to be Zeus”:

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Book ID: 146 Page: 353

Section: 4B

Encomia Fr. 122, Lines 123 For Theoxenos of Tenedos

The same. “And what does Pindar say when he mentions

Theoxenos of Tenedos, who was his beloved?”

One should cull love, my heart,

as appropriate during youth,

but whoever has seen those rays

flashing from Theosxenos’ eyes

and is not flooded with desire

has a black heart forged from adamant or steel

with a cold flame, and is dishonored

by bright-eyed Aphrodite,

or toils compulsively for money,

or with womanly courage

is carried in service to an utterly cold path.{1}

But I, because of her,{2} melt like the wax

of holy bees bitten by the sun’s heat, whenever I look

upon the new-limbed youth of boys.

So, after all, in Tenedos

Persuasion and Grace dwell

in the son of Hagesilas.

Pastor John notes: sick!

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Book ID: 146 Page: 369

Section: 4B

Threnoi Fr. 131b, Line 133

Plato, Meno. “Among others Pindar says . . . that the

soul of man is immortal . . . that therefore it is indeed

necessary to live one’s entire life as piously as possible.”

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Book ID: 146 Page: 379

Section: 2D2

Fragment 143, Line 146

Scholion on Iliad 21.100 (“of Athena ‘beside father Zeus’”) “on the right hand”, as Pindar says:

“who nearest the fire-breathing thunderbolt

at the right hand of your father.

you sit.”

Plutarch, Table-Talk. “And Pindar says explicitly (of Athena), ‘she, sitting nearest the fire-breathing thunderbolt.’” Aristeds, Oration 37 (Hymn to Athena). “Again Pinda says that she sits at the right hand of her father and receives his orders for the gods.”

Quote ID: 3176

Time Periods: 012



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