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Rh close our survey of Pindar's life and works with a last quotation, showing us what the poet desired that his life and works should be, and what was the memory of himself that he would fain bequeath to later ages:—

Grant me, O Jove! each crooked path to shun,

Simple and straight my honest race to run!

So may mine be

No name to tinge with shame my children's cheek!

Gold, lands, let others seek;

I ask an honoured grave,—the good to adorn,

And load the vile with scorn." —(S.)