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ἐπίνειμαι: Only here in P. It has an artillery sound, “sweep,” “rake” (compare ἐπιφλέγων, v. 24), and is used chiefly of destructive agency. So of fire, Hdt. 5, 101; Pol. 14, 5, 7; Diod. Sic. 14, 51; of plague, Thuk. 2, 54; Diod. Sic. 12, 12; of foes, Plut. Caes. 19; Pomp. 25. P. delights in the oxymoron. Compare O. 6.46: ἀμεμφεῖ ἰῷ, and γλυκὺν ὀιστόν, v. 12. ἐ., then, is not “aim at,” but “send arrow after arrow at,” “sweep with hurtling flight.”


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

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