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, Ol. xi. 30,, "under" (genitive for dative); Pyth. iii. 60,, "aware what lies before him," not strictly equivalent to the common (by the foot), but rather denoting that which will be met at the next step forward. Pyth. v. 54,, "for terror," prae timore (so Aeschylus, Cho. 32, ). Ol. iii. 31,, "behind the blasts": Ol. vii. 18, . Pyth. ii. 11,, Aeolic for , and elsewhere. (6) with future infinitive: Ol. i. 109,. (7) Optative without in abstract supposition: Ol. iii. 45, . Pyth. iv, 118,. Ol. x. 20,. (8) The active sense of the epithet may be noted in, "vessel of cleansing" (Ol. i. 26), , "chilling rains" (Pyth. iv. 81), (216), "bird that maddens."

The number of words peculiar to Pindar is large in proportion to the volume of his extant work. In several, as, we can see how dactylic metre (especially in its Pindaric combinations) stimulated the formation of new compounds.

§ 22. The spirit of art, in every form, is represented for Pindar by —"the source of all delights to mortals" (, Ol. i. 30)—or by the personified Charites. While Sparta knew only two Graces ( and