1809.] 
A pleasing .euphony is not always 
found in ‘Pindar; though in general soft, 
the ear is sometimes dissatisfied. It is 
impossible, however, now to ascertain 
the proper accent of a language, that has 
céased to exist for so many ages, as to 
common use. Nar is it probable that 
the same pronunciation prevailed in 
Grecce, even in the best times. We 
cannot, at present, trace the distinction 
between the. A’ohan and: the’ Doric 
accents; or what Boi was peculiar to 
Pindar. The manner of pronouncing 
Greek is different in every country. 
Thus, as Heyne remarks,* however dis- 
pleasing the frequent breaks of Pindar 
nay be to some, they are not so uni- 
versally; and the horrible cacophony 
whichoccurs in the 1 Pyth. 135. soy ros top 
xev, though sufficiently annoying to thede- 
licacy ut one man, Inay not disturb the 
ear of another. 
‘The sentiments of this preat poet are 
always striking and just. Many pas- 
saves might be cited, which contain 
maxims of the soundest morahty. He is 
remarkable, too, for the pious veneration 
with which he speaks of the deities and 
religious worship of his country.¢ On 
this point be is much superior to the 
other 
cepted, who is justly charged with so 
many unworthy, not to say indecent, re- 
presentations of the powers of heaven. 
‘Thus the prodactions of Pindar are re- 
commended for their usefulness, as well 
as admired for their excellence. If we 
cannot copy the beauties of his fancy, 
we may improve by the strength of his 
wisdom, and the warmth of a sincere 
though mistaken devotion. If his spirit 
of poetry be beyond our reach, his spirit 
of honesty and goodness wil! more easily 
admit of imitation; and though we can- 
hot soar besoad. the clouds with bis 
genius, we may take q nobler’ flight by 
the assistance of his piety. 
| The suffrage of almost every writer of 
antiquity; 1S unanimous in favour of 
Pindar, Many are unbounded. in his 
praise. -The wisest, the devine, the 
great, the subline, are the epithets be- 
stowed on him by Atschylus, Plato, 
Atheneus, and others. Quinctilian, that 
sober and. impartial judge of merit, has 
thas described him-—‘ Nomen Lyricorum — 
Jonge Pindarus princeps spiritu, magni- 
—————_--_-- ee 
* Pree. 1 
+ See the 1 Olymp, Ode. 
— ¥ Kenn. in Pind. 
On Fentulating Stage-Coaches. 
_ Style. 
poets of Greece, Homer not ex-- 
ey 
ficentia, sententiis, figuris—beatissimus 
reruin verborumq,. copia et velut quodain 
eloquentig flumine, propter que Ho- 
ratius nemini credit eum imitabilem,.”* 
Horace, indeed, who frequentiy imitates, 
and, perhaps, sometimes rivals Pindar, 
has devoted an entire odet to the praise 
of his great model; in which he parti- 
cularly describes his genius and_ his 
By the professed critics of every 
age, his merit has been uniformly avowed, 
Innumerable translations, and imitations 
of bis manner, have extended the know- 
ledge, and perpetuated the fame, of this 
great inaster of the Ode. But numerous 
as these are in every modern language, 
few have equalled, and none have ex- 
celled him, They copied his supposed 
wildness of thought, and irregularity of © 
metre, but have rarely attained the gran~ 
deur of his sentiments, or the real dignity 
of his style. However difficult may be 
the task, of thoroughly compreh .ending 
the verse of Pindar, it is in the original 
only, that his beauties ‘can be seen and 
felt; not in the harsh and affected imi- 
tations of Cowley, nor in the smoother, 
but unfaithfal version of West, 
‘The editions of Pindar, are 
Pindar, Ald. Venet. 1513. Editio Prine. 
Sine Scholiis. 
Romz, 4to. 1515. Cum Scholiis. 
Ceporini; Basil, 1526, Apud Cray 
tandrum, reprint. 1556. The first, 
very rare and valuable. 
——— Morel. Paris, 4to. 1558. 
——— Stephani, Par. 8vo. 1560-66 86. 
— Schmidii, Wittemb. 4to. 1616. 
Benecictj. Salm. 4to. 1626. 
Westii and Welstedii. Oxon. 
1697. Gr. and Lat. 
——— Cura Heyne. Gotting. 1773-1798 § 
considered the dest. 
——— 4 Schneider, Argent, 4to. 1776.—= 
The Life of Pindar has been writ- 
ten by Schneider, with great ap- 
pearance of research and labour. 
fol. 
<n 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine 
‘much in the 
SIR, 
AVING travelled 
E mail and other staye-coaches, in 
this kingdom, I have been often struck 
with the ' great inconvenience to which 
passengers in those conveyances are €Xx- 
posed trom the heat, and from the very 
unpleasant, noxious, sickening etfluvia 
occasioned by the confined air, and to 
+ Quinct. x. 1. 
* Lib. iv. Od. 2. 
which 
