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ζωοῖσιν ἑρπόντεσσί θ᾽ ὁμοῖα: “That looked as if they lived and moved.” The Greeks, like the Japanese, were fond of exaggeration about art and artists. So the Rhodians were fabled to have tied the feet of their statues to keep them from running away. Michael Angelo's “Cammina” is a stock story.

φέρον: The statues were set up in the streets. There is no reference to moving along the roads, as Dissen thinks.


Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1885.

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