Pindar - Softcover

Pindar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1152579088 ISBN 13: 9781152579088

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...to sweep The wide expanse of glory's deep; 45 But not along the wondrous way To Hyperborean crowds can ships or feet convey. 48 Of old, as at their sacred feast, Whole hecatombs appeased the god, The steps of an illustrious guest, 50 Perseus, their habitation trod; Whose festivals and songs of praise Apollo with delight surveys; And smiles to see the bestial train In wanton pride erect and vain. 56 55 Yet never will th' impartial Muse To dwell with minds like these refuse: Around them move the virgin choirs, The breathing flutes and sounding lyres; And twining with their festive hair 60 The wreath of golden laurel fair, With temperate mirth and social glee They join in solemn revelry. xxviii. 3): 'Thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass.' 46 This digression to the Hyperborean regions, which Pindar here seems to consider as the western boundary of the world, and to the story of Perseus, who came suddenly on the pious inhabitants as they were sacrificing hecatombs of wild asses to Apollo, is greatly censured by the scholiast as an unreasonable deviation from the original scope and design of the ode. But these irregularities are so characteristic of our poet, that whatever place or persons the progress of his story leads him, however slightly, to mention, we look as a matter of course for any mythological record connected with them. Nor dire disease, nor wasting age, Against their sacred lives engage: 65 But free from trouble and from strife, Through the mild tenor of their life Secure they dwell, nor fear to know Avenging Nemesis their foe. Erst, breathing with a heart of flame, 70 The valiant son of Danae came; Who by divine Athena's hand, Led to the blest heroic band, Slew Gorgon, and her dire head bore With dragon locks all cover'd o'er; 75 And thu...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1152579088
• ISBN 13: 9781152579088
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 82