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| Title | The Isthmian Odes |
| Author | Pindar |
| Editor | John Bagnell Bury |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1892 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jul 25, 2006 |
| Length | 194 pages |
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