Note 114 — II WHY THE PYTHIA DOES NOT NOW GIVE ORACLES IN VERSE
A. O. (Arthur Octavius) Prickard translation
The MSS. have ‘Pandarus’, but ‘Pindar’ is a likely correction. Yet Plutarch cannot have supposed Pindar to have written this iambic line. It is quoted by Aristophanes, Peace, 699, in connexion with the stinginess of Sophocles or Simonides, and the scholiast quotes from Pindar a censure of that vice in a poet: so some confusion is possible.