PREFACE.

The text of this edition of the Olympian and Pythian Odes of Pindar has been established according to my best judgment, and that judgment has excluded all emendations of my own. The notes owe much to preceding editors; it would be affectation to say that they owe everything. The Introductory Essay is intended, as the whole book is intended, for beginners in Pindar, and much of the earlier part has been transferred from a series of semi-popular lectures, the sources of which I could not always indicate with exactness, even if it were worth while. The metrical schemes are due to the generosity of Dr. J. H. Heinrich Schmidt, who kindly placed at my disposal the manuscript of his unpublished Pindar. In these schemes, the comma indicates a regular caesura a break or pause in a line of verse or diaeresis a break between two words where a word ends exactly at the end of a metrical foot, and the dot indicates a shifting caesura or diaeresis. The other points are sufficiently explained in the Introductory Essay. In order to facilitate the rhythmical recitation of the text, I have indicated the stressed syllables by an inferior dot whenever it seemed advisable, as the simple indication of the kōla clauses or members of a metrical period was not sufficient based on my experience with classes studying Pindar. This has added much to the labor of proof-reading, and I owe especial thanks to Mr. C. W. E. Miller, Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University, for his careful revision of text and schemes in this regard. My friend and colleague, Professor C. D. Morris, has done me the inestimable favor of ex-