Max Pohlenz, for example, comments on the Herodotus passage: "The [LANGAUGE NOT REPRODUCEIBLE IN ASCII] is the expression of the religious belief in the steadfastness [Unverbruchlichkeit] of the divine world orde r that will not tolerate any transgression of human limits." (6) The Panhellenic Games, insofar as they bestow a divine blessedness upon the victor, may also provoke the jealousy of the gods, and it is precisely this threatening possibility that the encomiast must anticipate: [LANGAUGE NOT REPRODUCEIBLE IN ASCII] ("I shall sing, fitting my hair with wreaths: may the immortals' envy not cause trouble,"
Isthm. 7.39).