Pindar, Fragments

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Pindar

30 Clem. Alex. strom. 5.14.137.1 Πίνδαρος δὲ ἄντικρυς καὶ σωτῆρα Δία συνοικοῦντα Θέμιδι εἰσάγει, βασιλέα σωτῆρα δίκαιον ἑρμηνεύων ὧδέ πως·

πρῶτον μὲν εὔβουλον Θέμιν οὐρανίαν χρυσέαισιν ἵπποις Ὠκεανοῦ παρὰ παγᾶν Μοῖραι ποτὶ κλίμακα σεμνὰν ἆγον Οὐλύμπου λιπαρὰν καθ᾿ ὁδόν 5σωτῆρος ἀρχαίαν ἄλοχον Διὸς ἔμμεν· ἁ δὲ τὰς χρυσάμπυκας ἀγλαοκάρ- πους τίκτεν ἀλαθέας Ὥρας.

33 Plut. quaest. Plat. 8.4.3.1007B ἔνιοι τῶν Στωικῶν . . . τὴν δ᾿ οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ (sc. τοῦ χρόνου) καὶ τὴν δύναμιν οὐ συνορῶντες, ἣν ὅ γε Πίνδαρος ἔοικεν οὐ φαύλως ὑπονοῶν εἰπεῖν·

ἄνα<κτα> τὸν πάντων ὑπερ- βάλλοντα Χρόνον μακάρων

33b Clem. Alex. strom. 1.21.107.2 (2.69 Stählin) Πίνδαρος γράφει·

ἐν χρόνῳ δ᾿ ἔγεντ᾿ Ἀπόλλων

  • 7ἀλαθέας Ὥρας Boeckh ex Hesychio (α 2733): ἀγαθὰ σωτῆρας Clemens
  • 1ἄνα<κτα> suppl. Heyne
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Hymns

30 Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies. “Pindar right away introduces Zeus Savior’s marriage to Themis, calling him a just, savior king in these words”:

First did the Fates bring wise-counseling, heavenly Themis on golden horses from the springs of Oceanus along a shining road to the hallowed stair of Olympus 5to be the primordial wife of Zeus Savior; and she bore the golden-filleted bearers of splendid fruit, the ever-true Horae.5

33 Plutarch, Platonic Questions. “Some Stoics . . . not realizing its (time’s) essence and power, which Pindar seems to have surmised astutely when he said”:

Time, the lord surpassing all the blessed gods

33b Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies. “Pindar writes”:

in the course of time Apollo was born

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DOI: 10.4159/DLCL.pindar-fragments.1997