ty’ and is lord of happiness, to this I must devote
myself without reserve. For a front and a showA Pindaric mixture of metaphors beginning with a portico and
garb, continuing with the illusory perspective of scene-painting, and
concluding with the craftly fox trailed behind. I must draw about
myself a shadow-line of virtue, but trail behind me the fox of most sage
Archilochus,Cf. Fr. 86-89 Bergk, and
Dio Chrysost.Or. 55. 285 R.KEPDALE/AN is a standing epithet of Reynard. Cf. Gildersleeve on Pindar
Pyth. ii. 78. shifty and bent on gain. Nay,
'tis objected, it is not easy for a wrong-doer always to lie hid.Cf. my review of Jebb's
“Bacchylides,”Class. Phil., 1907, vol. ii. p. 235. Neither is any other big thing
fa