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 prowess," not "yearning to seize great prowess in their thoughts," to conceive it. In Ol. iv. i, |, the sense is: "thy seasons, as they come round, have sent me with the cithern's varied strains." In Pyth. iv. 24,  | , "hanging the anchor of biting bronze to the ship," the place of  is very harsh. In the same ode, 214,  |  |  | , the whole order is strangely involved: "The Cyprus-born queen first brought from Olympus to men the speckled wry-neck, the maddening bird, when she had bound it fast upon a four-spoked wheel." In v. 106, , the last word is separated by three lines from the former. A very strong instance is Isthm. iii. 36, , "as, after the gloom of winter, the earth blossoms with the red roses of the many-coloured months,"—where the position of  between  and  is one for which it would be hard to find a parallel.

§ 21. Apart from such dislocations, Pindar's syntax is rarely difficult. I would note the following points: (i) Co-ordination of clauses (parataxis) is preferred to subordination (hypotaxis),—an epic feature of which the peculiarly Pindaric form is concerned with the introduction of a simile: as in Ol. i. 3, |