1566 PINDARI OLYMPIA antique Pindarus GREEK & LATIN Poetry VELLUM BINDING

PINDARIOLYMPIA , PYTHIANEMEA, ISTHMIACaeterorum octo lyricorum carmina, Alcaei, Sapphus, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis, Bacchylidis, Simonidis, Alcmanisnonnulla etiam aliorum.Editio II.Graecolatina H. Stefh. recognitione quorundam interpretationis...Exudebar Henr. Stephanus; 1566Original vellum binding .Size 2 1/2 by 5 "573 (of 575) pages.Text in Greek and Latin.Very good condition, minor wear of binding, some toning, lacks 1 leaf (of preliminary)----------------------------------------Pindar  (Pindarus; c. 518 – 438 BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems ca