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PINDAR'S SECOND ISTHMIAN ODE A COMMENTARY BY W. J. VERDENIUS Date The past tense of lines 37 ff. shows that the poem has been composed after the death of Xenocrates (about 472). It seems to have been commissioned by his son Thrasybulus for some memorial celebration of his father's victories, and such a celebration is most likely to have taken place not too long after the victor's death. See further below, on 43 Metre The dactyloepitrites do not present special problems. At the end of 14 etc. we find a choriambus after epitrites, a fact which supports the view of those critics who accept the correspondence of these metres. Commentayy i) . i : 0p<xou?ouXs. Son of Xenocrates of Agrigentum. A. Kambylis, Anredeformen bei Pindar, in Xa'pLq K. I. Boup?ép1J (Athens 1964) [95-199], 181 n. 3, points out that this is the only Pindaric poem in which a human being is addressed in the first line. The exception seems to me to be connected with the fact that the poem, although it is a real victory ode (see below, n. 34), has a strongly personal character (see below, on 12 and 48 i: 9&Teq. Thummer writes: "Wahrend (xv/)p die
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1982
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