Pindar, Prince of the Greek Lyrics, of whom Horace, PINDARUM quisquis studet, &c. Ode 2, Lib. IV.
Though we be all to seek
Of Pindar, that great Greek,
To finger it aright;
The soul with power to strike:
His hand retained such might.
Horace, first of the Romans in that kind.
Or him that Rome did grace,
Whose Airs we all embrace: