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But it is not probable, since Pindar's road seems hardly to have been inside the city at all. For Pindar's reference see Pyth. v. 90 and p. 16 above. In these two cases and in one or two others which might be noted from the same or later times, the town-scheme includes rectangular elements without any strict resemblance to the chess-board pattern.
To those therefore who would wish to begin with a selection, the following may be recommended as at any rate among those of preeminent merit: Pyth. 4, 9, 1, 10, 3; Ol. 7, 6, 2, 3, 13, 8, 1; Nem. 5, 10; Isthm. 2, 7; all the Fragments translated. In the arrangement of the odes I have adhered to the traditional order.
And in an exceedingly happy description of what is termed the picturesque: And in his lines on the Eagle, from another gem: where I cannot but observe the peculiar beauty of the epithet applied to the plumes of the eagle. It is the right translation of the word by which Pindar has described the ruffling of the wings on the back of Zetes and Calais. Pyth. 4, 326.
Cardinal Virtues, Pindar, Nem. iii. 72: ἐν παισὶ νέοισι παῖς, ἐν ἀνδράσιν ἀνήρ, τρίτον ἐν παλαιτέροισι μέρος, ἕκαστον οἶον ἔχομεν βρότεον ἔθνος. ἐλᾶ δὲ καὶ τέσσαρας ἀρετὰς ὁ θνατὸς αἰών, also Pindar, Pyth. iv. 281. He would then at 14 or 15 become an iran. Plut. Lyc. 17 gives the age of an iran as 20.
"'Smyte on boldly, sayd Robyn, 'I give thee large leve. Anon our kynge, with that word, He folde up his sleve. "And such a buffet he gave Robyn, To grounde he yode full nere. 'I make myn avowe, sayd Robyn, 'Thou art a stalwarte frere. "'There is pyth in thyn arme, sayd Robyn, 'I trowe thou canst well shoote. Thus our kynge and Hobyn Hode Together they are met."
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