Hello everyone
From what I’ve read of Pindar, I’m really in love with this particular composition.
I just have this difficult in scaning it, does someone have the metrical scheme for it?
You will find this link helpful http://hypotactic.com/latin/index.html?Use_Id=pythians. Although others will offer comments on its accuracy.
What an amazing resource! I wish I’d had this when I was trying to puzzle out hexameter.
Oh gods, this is wonderfull. Thank you.
Btw, can someone explain why, in the first line, " καὶ " is scanned short?
Btw, can someone explain why, in the first line, " καὶ " is scanned short?
Epic correption. Very common in Homer, which you may wish to tackle before Pindar. A long vowel at the end of a word before another word beginning with a vowel, will often (though not always) scan as short.
I’ve just corrected the wikipedia article on correption, which made the false claim that it only occurs before short vowels. That error has stood in the first line of the article since 2010, despite being obviously incorrect. (Compare Α.29: τὴν δ’ ἐγὼ οὐ λύσω· πρίν μιν καὶ γῆρας ἔπεισιν.)