1566 PINDARI OLYMPIA vellum bound ANTIQUE Pindarus GREEK & LATIN Poetry

img{max-width:100%} PINDARI OLYMPIA , 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 "614 pages.Text in Greek and Latin.Some soiling of binding----------------------------------------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 can also, however, seem difficult and even peculiar. The Athenian comic