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grbs-10471	Pieper, Gail W.	The Prooemium of Bacchylides’ Ode 7	1969	6	.pdf	application/pdf	2445	127	71	229 The Prooemium of Bacchylides' Ode 7 Gail W. Pieper THE Seventh Odel of Bacchylides was composed in honor of Lachon of Ceos, winner of the boys' foot-race at Olympia in 452 B.C.2 Due to the severe mutilation of col. 13, critical analysis has been limited for the most part to textual and metrical studies.3 With the help of several fragments and a few letters from the margin of col. 14, however, Blass has been able to reconstruct much of the text of lines 3-11.4 Consequently, it is possible to study more closely the train of Bacchylides' poetic thought. (supra n.8) 404. 10 See Jacob Stern, Bestial Imagery in Bacchylides' Ode 11, GRBS 6 (1965) 282: his de­ light is in a literal association, a pun or conceit ... 11 Cited by Snell, p.25, n. on line 14.	cache/grbs-10471.pdf	txt/grbs-10471.txt