Word: pindaric
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...FRIDAY.Seminary of Classical Philology. Paper by Mr. F. K. Ball on The Influence of the Verse on Inflexion in Virgil's Hexameters; by Mr. E. D. McCollom, on the Parable in Pindar's Fourth Pythian Ode. Sever...
...history of their civilization we find that they bestowed great care upon the culture of the physical organism, for they knew that if the soil were not well tilled, ploughed and regenerated by fertilizers it could not produce the golden ear and the luxuriant sheaf. Both Homer and Pindar manifested great enthusiasm in singing the praises of bodily strength and skill. The laws of Lycurgus provided free training-schools for the thorough physical education of both sexes. Four different localities were consecrated to the Panhellenic games,' at which the athletes of all the Hellenic tribes met for trials of strength...
...very much. One thing we noticed was a Greek text-book used by John Dryden, when a school-boy. He had scribbled his name many times over the pages, school-boy fashion, and interspersed Latin hotes in the Greek, to assist his memory. Then there was a copy of Pindar, which had belonged to Milton, and had his notes on the margin written in Greek, in a small, neat hand...
...Pindar I read off at sight...
...should be tempted into speaking perhaps with unbecoming warmth of our departed friends' many excellences. But we cannot but remember that it was the class which threw so much life into some of the highest literary courses in college. If we remember rightly, Greek 9 (AEschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Pindar) in Seventy-six's hands seemed on its last legs until Seventy-seven raised it again into one of the most successful, even in a numerical point of view, of all Greek courses. The study of Cervantes, Dante, and of Old French literature received an impulse from this class they...