comment on Kirkwood’s (1984) general argument that Pindar’s poetry praises the noble only and blames the base only; analysis of the epinician ainos, as a double-edged mode of discourse, being able to admonish or blame as well as praise: the pattern of restriction on the range of blame (to the base only) is a specialization from earlier and less differentiated phases of ainos, where one man’s praise proved to be another man’s blame