analysis of the diction of Pindar presenting an idealized picture of a prooimion as if performed: the chorus members are described, five lines into the composition, as if waiting for the voice of the Muse, which is to be their cue to start the performance (001-012), the Muse is then invoked to start (ἄρχε, 010) the humnos ('song,' 011), while the 'I' of the lyre player, the persona of the composer, distributes the song to the chorus members and to the lyre (011-012)