Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, chapter 1, section 61

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[61] Of the nine lyric poets¹ Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace² rightly held, make him [p. 37] inimitable.

1 The five not mentioned here are Aleman, Sappho, Ibycus, Anacreon and Bacchylides.

2 Od. IV. ii. 1.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

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