Homer, indeed, among all the poets of antiquity, presents the most vivid and true description of the outward world; and the imagination of pindar and the Attic dramatists appears to have been strongly, though indirectly, affected both by the immediate aspect and by the invisible power of Nature.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
"If a man should undertake to translate pindar word for word, it would be thought that one madman had translated another; as may appear when a person who understands not the original reads the verbal traduction of him into Latin prose, than which nothing seems more raving....
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
As examples of the former view the reader has only to call to mind the sentiment of Homer's immortal epic, or the odes of pindar, in order to see that ambition was regarded as the motor quality of heroism.
"The Making of an Apostle"
R. J. Campbell