Pindar,
lyric poet, native of Cynoscephalae in *Boeotia. He was born probably in 518 bc (Suda, fr. 193, if the latter refers to Pindar). The tradition (one of several competing accounts) that he lived to the age of eighty is at least roughly correct, since his last datable composition (... ...
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