The Classical Review http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR Additional services for The Classical Review: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here On Pindar's Olympian Odes J. Arbuthnot Nairn The Classical Review / Volume 15 / Issue 01 / February 1901, pp 10 - 15 DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X00029346, Published online: 27 October 2009 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0009840X00029346 How to cite this article: J. Arbuthnot Nairn (1901). On Pindar's Olympian Odes. The Classical Review, 15, pp 10-15 doi:10.1017/S0009840X00029346 Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR, IP address: 147.188.128.74 on 06 Jul 2015 10 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. ON PINDAR'S OLYMPIAN ODES. 01. 1, 62-4 [the numbering of Gilder- form of rWr/fu, when examined is seen to sleeve's edition for Olympians and Pythians be different: has been followed in this paper : i.e. of course, the left hand (Bockh's) numeration]. v€KTap iv KOI aft/3po<riav ordfoicn, i ri vw aOavarov K.T.X. veKTap a.fi,(3po<Tiav re There tfijowrai is to be taken in the sense of ' give him a name,' familiar in tragedy. It may have been a false interpre- The antistrophic verse (75) demands a tation of that passage, however, which led trochee at the beginning of 64. ' It is better Ahrens to propose the ridiculous reading to admit a tribrach [eOea-av el Se K.T.X.] than Oija-av (lactabant) in 01. 1. 64. to accept the MS. tfeo-ow, or Mommsen's Biv vw, although we miss an object.' So 01. i. 103 sqq. Gildersleeve. But according to the most recent edition of Pindar, that of Otto tuj TIV afi<f>6repa KaXwv re fiSpiv a/x/xe Kal Schroder in Teubner's series—which, though hvvafjuv Kvpiwrepov apparently a fifth edition of Bergk's work TS>V ye vvv KXVTCU&I SaiSaXaKre/tei' v/ivov on Pindar completed under Schroder's guidance, is virtually independent of Bergk's a/A//,e is a correction for metrical reasons of influence—the optimi libri have Oia-av avrbv, the MSS. apa. In support of it may be while Oia-aav avrbv is only given by pars cited the corruption of a/x/uc to a/xa at 01. 9, Thomm{anorum), i.e. of the interpolated 106. Sch. V^et. has woreicr/tat aKptjSois fir/Seva codices influenced by Thomas Magister. fi i€Ti fyLXov TS>V VVV avOpdnrav eyKwfiid&ai: OrJKav has the support of Rauchenstein :where the aorist Inf., probably a mere mis- Comm. Pind. II. 11. According to Rumpel's take for iyicwfudo-eiv as so often, gives no Lexicon, however, we have no instance of support to Mommsen's view that SaiSaAco- this form. The ordinary alternation of (re/xev is aorist; nor again is a/x/xe supported e&jKa: Weptv is observed throughout : by the previous words of the Scholiast. It OrjKaiiLevo<s is not enough as evidence thais t not at all probable that Pindar should Pindar could violate in this verb the settled after the emphatic e/tc Se <TTe<f>avS>crai KCLVOV prerogatives of strong and weak Aorist of v. 100 with its correspondence in pro- forms : while to my ear at least Or/Kav after minence of the singer and the king, weaken SiaKtv (v. 63) is unpleasantly cacophonous. his claims on his patron by sharing them in This is intensified by the form TrpmjKav, the next clause with the whole chorus. v. 65, as Schneidewin saw. There is yet another word confused in the The other suggestions may be seen in MSS. of Pindar with a/ta, viz. dfj,<f>L See Schroder's note to the passage. Remember- Nem. 9, 52, where the reverse corruption of ing that the number of uncial corruptions in a/ia to atiqii points to the form diia (AM AI to AM<I>I) on which cf. Schroder's introduc- the MSS. of Pindar is considerable, a state 1 •of affairs which the papyrus of Bacchylides tion, p. 37. ISpiv a'/x<£l KaXmv for the more has more recently illustrated, I propose a familiar "8piv KOXZV is not unlike the use in reading which seems to satisfy the conditions 01. 12, 8 a-v/iftoXov—Trurrbv d/j.(f>l irpa^ios of the problem at least as well as any eo-croiteVa? evpe OeoOtv, where to our gram- already put forward : viz. matical sense d/j.<jn would be better absent, and in a prose author would probably have olcrw atyBiTov F succumbed to the knife of a physician of tercrav. Cobet's school. The uses of a^i, evidently / for ft has disappeared from view in the a favourite with Pindar, can be most con- text fur sich : but avrbv faithfully represents veniently studied in Rumpel: the present it. Similar subsidence of this pronoun is passage is not as striking in its divergence familiar in the text of Homer, but without from the noun as many where the dat. occurs. the gloss. eaarav from I£a> = KTI£O) may be This leads me to speak of 01.1,113 where supported by ea-cravro in Pyth. 4, 204, where a syllable is wanted to complete antistrophic the explanation of the scholiast is HKTMTOLV. 1 I find that Manr. Schmidt has conjectured a/upl Finally, the passage Pyth. 9, 63, which is already: but he couples &n<f>l xa\ Swd/iei (which he at first sight parallel and in favour of some reads for ) THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. 11 correspondence at the beginning of the line. garlands were given to the victors on this It seems to me that Schroder is right in particular occasion. That' clothing ' of any reading a/xcp' dAAoicri 8' dAAoi /xeyaXoi, not iir'kind was a prize in addition is a mere aWoicri of the codices interpolati. He com- unsupported inference of the Scholiast: ij pares ocra S' afL<f>' dedXois Nem. 2, 17, and TO eira$Xov io-Or/s- We are plainly not at ra fnkv dfitjii TT6VOL<S {nrepwraTa Nem. 8, 4 : also liberty to compare the xj/vxpav evSiavov the paraphrase of aficpl by iirl at 01. 9, 14 <f>dpfiaKov avpav of 01. 9, 104 (1) because this may be used, in case cn-l is as Schroder was an institution peculiar to Pellene, and thinks a genuine mark of antiquity and not (2) because there was a special reason for as I prefer to believe itself an interpolation. the institution of a prize so bizarre, viz. that the games at Pellene were held in Here again the form A M AI is to be posited c v AS the preliminary stage of the corruption : winter. (Sch. ad loc. lv ncW^T) x^ " ' the similarity of AMAI to AAA[OICI eSt'SoTo T<5 VIKU)VTI x«jU.<I)i'os wpa). But there then led to the disappearance of the is another passage which throws some light preposition. The faintness of meaning on Pindar's intention when he emphasizes inherent in apfpl farthered this : contrast this point, that the competitors were naked. Ol. 7, 80 KpivK aix<j> de'0W with Pyth. 4Pyth, . 9, 115 sqq. shews that girls even 253 tv6a Ka.1 yvitov de'0A.ois iireSiiiavro Kpitriv were allowed to be present at the games in «r0ai-os d/x<£t's. Here the only change Cyrene, as one of the institutions perhaps needed is the restoration of the active of the "YAXW orafl/m (Pyth. 1, 62). One of the Argonauts who competed in the games £ire&ei£av: cf. Nem. 11, 14 lv T aiOXounv at Lemnos before Lemnian women was the apicrrevrnv £7re8etf£v f}iav. KpMTiV before ancestor of the kings of Oyrene (v. Pyth. 4 /e<r0aTos presents no difficulty, and the passim). It is clear to me that Pindar is find- word is not at all Jikely to be due to a ing mythological support for the custom as corrector of e.g. Flv', of Kayser, Christ, and practised at Cyrene, of admitting women. Gildersleeve. I would only suggest, com- Taken this way the words icrdaros d//.<£ts paring 01. 3,21 /j.eydX<i>v 6.€$\<av dyvav Kptcriv, bear (to the avveroX) a clear sign of Pindar's that we should interchange the terminations manner. Aesthetical criticism is dangerous of yviwv and de#A.ois, a common resource of 1 in these odes; but the thought of the criticism and one well justified by facts. Argonauts racing one another for over- Then too I find some plausibility in the coats is a decided fall below the epic dignity belief that yvCmv came in through a mis- of Pyth. 4. At Pellene the prize was understanding of the force of eTre8ei£av probably regarded as a piece of comicality. (really = Trape'o-xov) which is faithfully mir- rored in the middle. From this point of I have in the foregoing laid no stress on view I think Kayser's iire&ti^avTo Fiv the entire absence of proof that a/Acpls ever represents well enough the conception of did equal afa<f>i. Rumpel cites no other the passage formed by ancient critics. example of the word in Pindar, nor can I find any evidence elsewhere of the assumed Thus Sch. iire$ei£avTO TWV [i,c\5)v rr/v avSpeiav meaning. Thus to Dissen's ' d/*<£ts pr. Kal rrjv Kpi(riv (i.e.