Pindarus . Pindaros . Adde Theocriti Idyllia, Lycophronis Cassandrae fragmentum, et alia aliorum excerpta

Regarding the second ode, on vowels and syllables.
Dimeter catalectic a line lacking a final syllable from an iamb.
The first is from a spondee.
The second is from an iamb.
The third is from an iamb.
The fourth is from an iamb.
The fifth is from an iamb.
The sixth is from an iamb.
The seventh is from an iamb.
The eighth is from an iamb.
The ninth is from an iamb.
The tenth is from an iamb.
The eleventh is from an iamb.
The twelfth is from an iamb.
The thirteenth is from an iamb.
The fourteenth is from an iamb.
The fifteenth is from an iamb.
The sixteenth is from an iamb.
The seventeenth is from an iamb.
The eighteenth is from an iamb.
The nineteenth is from an iamb.
The twentieth is from an iamb.

Certainly, it progresses from the spondee? to the iambic.
The first iambic is itself also a spondee.
But it is much safer on the iambic toward the spondee.
The iambic progresses to the iambic.
[The text repeats this structure for each line down to the twentieth.]

With long [syllables] and short ones
I shall set the peak.
Olympic gifts
he gave back to Temosia,
agricultural labor and
the naming of the drink.
And the rivers
of the city and the
silence fell
upon the gifts laid out;
the ethereal summit,
I revere the god.

Which god shall I consider,
or what kind of song?
A healer of many,
it held the victor,
the brysmakesontos a specific, likely archaic or poetic epithet for a recipient of honor;
and he, the city
of the holy house,
his eye
to my own
understanding of the city
of his own.