32mo. In two parts. 576, 568 [i.e. 468]pp. Parallel Greek and Latin text. Part II has separate title page, pagination, and register. Later panelled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints starting, a trifle marked. Later inked ownership inscription and armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP, inked ownership inscription of Smallwell to recto of FFEP.

A mid-seventeenth-century edition, translated and edited by Henri Estienne, of a collection of odes to victory attributed to Pindar, the ancient Greek poet considered among the greatest exponents of choral poetry. In these pieces, the author sings the victories of the Doric aristocratic youth (to which he belonged) at the Pan-Hellenic games.

Thomas Gaisford (1789-1855), English classical scholar, Curator of the Bodliean Library, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford and Dean of Christ Church.

Edward Smallwell (1720/21-1799), sometime chaplain to George III, Bishop of St. David's, and latterly Bishop of Oxford.