Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes, poem 13, Antistrophe 2

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σελίνων: The Isthmian wreaths were at first made of pine, then of parsley (I. 2, 16; N. 4.88), then pine was restored. The parsley of the Isthmian games was dry, of the Nemean green. Parsley had a funereal as well as a hymeneal significance.

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

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