The Only Use of
Pindar
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Monte Cristo, thus attuned to the interview he proposed to hold with Morrel and his family, departed, murmuring as he went these lines of Pindar, "Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after having watched its silent growth, is permitted to gather and call it his own."†
Chpt 49-50
Definition:
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(Pindar) Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (518?-438? BC)