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Excerpt from The Odes of Pindar in English Prose, With Explanatory Notes, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Is Added West's Dissertation on the Olympic Games The' former has for purpose to supply the reader with an imitation in his own language, that may enable him to 'dis pense with referring to the original. The object, therefore, of a free translator, is not only to give the sense, but likewise to emu late the style and the beauties of his author in such manner, that the feelings produced upon the mere English reader, may be the same as those of him, who peruses the original volumes, with all the advantage of classic acquirement. In versions of this nature it will often happen, that the turn of the periods must be altered, the connexion of the component parts more clearly, or sometimes more faintly expressed, and the metaphors varied to suit the modern idiom still, however, the whole must be so skil fully perform ed, as to entitle it to the ap pellation of a correct resemblance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.