PREFACE.
The metrical translations in this volume to which the initial "S" is appended, are taken, by the kind permission of their author, from an anonymously published work[1] by the present Lord Bishop of Salisbury and former Head-master of Winchester College, under whose instruction I made, as a boy, my first acquaintance with that poetry of Pindar, which has remained ever since among my favourite studies. For versions with no distinguishing initial I am myself responsible. Most of the latter have aheady appeared in my translation of the "Olympian and Pythian Odes" (H. S. King & Co., London: 1876).
On points of interpretation my chief authorities have been Boeckh and Dissen; of general history, Grote; of literary history, Bernhardy; of topography, Wordsworth, Clark, and Isambert ("Guide-Joanne, Grêce
- ↑ The Odes of Pindar translated into English Metre (J. Wells. Winchester: 1876).
