Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes, poem 1, line 82

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οἷσιν: Not to be dissected into τούτων οἷσιν.

τά: So Mommsen after good MSS. Doric for τί.

ἀνώνυμον . . . μάταν: An impressive cumulation in which it must be remembered that καθήμενος means more than “sitting” in English. It is “sitting idle, useless.”

Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1885.

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