Note 39:1 — INTRODUCTION.[vii:1]
Andrew P. (Andrew Preston) Peabody translation
“Of the viands” is an interpolation of my own. At a feast a “portion” was “carried off,” and I know not what it could have been, if not a part of the food and wine on the table. If there were none of Pindar’s posterity at hand to receive the portion, there were undoubtedly hungry officials ready in this behalf to represent them.