Elisa Bianchi

SUMMARY: MS Vatican Gr. 1312 (late 12th or early 13th century) and MS Milano, Bibl. Ambrosiana, C 222 inf. (last quarter of the 12th century) contain Pindar, Second Olympian, in a colometrical arrangement to be compared with that exhibited by P. Oxy. 2092 and P. Oxy. 5036 (both datable to the end of the 2nd century) and P. Oxy. 1614 (from the 5-6th century). The colometry of both MSS is presented here synoptically and possible patterns governing it are discussed. The arrangement of the Second Olympian could have been settled according to the theory of the metra prototypa explained by Hephaestion. In this perspective colometry can be described as a definite alternation of cola characterized by opposed metrical rhythms, which correspond to two different metrical modulations, framed into a coherent structure: modulations depending on rhythmical homogeneity and on rhythmical contrast.