Pindari carmina. Notas adjecit G.G. Cookesley, Volume 21851 |
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Pagina 238 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Pagina 12 - Saronic gulf in a sacred vessel (всшр/с), and an honorary place (irpotepía), as large as the sail of their vessel, was assigned to them during the celebration of the games. In times of war between the two states, a sacred truce was concluded, and the Athenians were invited to attend at the solemnities. The Eleans did not take part in the games, and various stories were related to account for this singular circumstance.
Pagina 13 - Simple as such a reward was, a victor in these games gained the greatest distinction and honour among his countrymen ; and a victory not only rendered the individual who obtained it a subject of admiration, but shed lustre over his family, and the whole town or community to which he belonged. Hence...
Pagina 214 - The prize given to the victors was at first a chaplet of olive-branches, but afterwards a chaplet of green parsley. When this alteration was introduced is not certain, though it may be inferred from an expression of Pindar, who calls the parsley (atkivov) the ßorava Xetivroc, that the new prize was believed to have been introduced by Heracles.
Pagina 12 - Eleans did not take part in the games, and various stories were related to account for this singular circumstance. It is a very probable conjecture of Wachsmuth, that the Isthmia, after the changes ascribed to Theseus, were merely a panegyris of the lonians of Peloponnesus and those of Attica ; for it should be observed, that Poseidon was an Ionian deity, whose worship appears originally to have been unknown to the Dorians. During the reign of the Cypselids at Corinth, the celebration of the Isthmian...
Pagina 13 - Sicyon there was a golden book which had been presented to it by Aristomache, the poetess, after she had gained the victory at the Isthmia. At a late period of the Roman empire, the character of the games at the Isthmia appears greatly altered ; for, in. the letter of the Emperor Julian...
Pagina 11 - Saronic gulf and the western foot of the (Enean hills, was the temple of Poseidon, and near it was a theatre and a stadium, of white marble. The entrance to the temple was adorned with an avenue of statues of the victors in the Isthmian games, and with groves of pine-trees. These games were said originally to have been instituted by Sisyphus...
Pagina 154 - Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi, sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.
Pagina 229 - Julian, it is stated that the Corinthians purchased bears and panthers for the purpose of exhibiting their fights at the Isthmia ; and it is not improbable that the custom of introducing fights of animals on this occasion commenced soon after the time of Caesar.
Pagina 12 - Plutarch remarks, more of the character of mysteries, than of a great and national assembly with its various amusements, and was performed at night. Subsequent to the age of Theseus, the Isthmia were celebrated in honour of Poseidon...