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64 reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance, are concatenated without any abruption. Though the English ode cannot be called a translation, it may be very properly consulted as a commentary.

The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every where equally preserved. The following pretty lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour:

In the Nemæan ode the reader must, in mere justice to Pindar, observe that whatever is said of the original new moon, her tender fore-head and her horns, is superadded by his paraphrast, who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original, as,

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