Friday, October 27, 2023
Pindar's Prayer
Pindar, fragment 155 Snell-Maehler (tr. John Sandys):
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What shall I do to be dear unto thee, O loudly-thunderingSee Robert Renehan, Greek Textual Criticism: A Reader (Cambridge: Harvard Unicersity Press, 1969), pp. 127-128.
son of Cronus, and dear unto the Muses,
and to be cared for by Jollity? This is my prayer to thee.
τί ἔρδων φίλος σοί τε, καρτερόβρεντα
Κρονίδα, φίλος δὲ Μοίσαις,
Εὐθυμίᾳ τε μέλων εἴην, τοῦτ᾿ αἴτημί σε.
καρτερόβρεντα Snell: καρτερόβροντα codd. Ath. 5.18.191f
