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metrical translations in this volume to which the initial "S" is appended, are taken, by the kind permission of their author, from an anonymously published work by the present Lord Bishop of Salisbury and former Head-master of Winchester College, under whose instruction I made, as a boy, my first acquaintance with that poetry of Pindar, which has remained ever since among my favourite studies. For versions with no distinguishing initial I am myself responsible. Most of the latter have aheady appeared in my translation of the "Olympian and Pythian Odes" (H. S. King & Co., London: 1876).

On points of interpretation my chief authorities have been Boeckh and Dissen; of general history, Grote; of literary history, Bernhardy; of topography, Wordsworth, Clark, and Isambert ("Guide-Joanne, Grêce