Thus Christopher Smart entirely omitted "Odes" and re-numbered the remaining odes. Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, famous for his odes, often dedicated his poems to Empress Catherine II. The kithara was played primarily to accompany dance, epic recitations, rhapsodies, odes, and lyric songs. Horace published a fourth book of "Odes" in 13 BC consisting of 15 poems. The lines of choral odes provide evidence that they were sung. After Keats, there have been comparatively few major odes in English. Pindar celebrated the Panhellenic athletic festivals in vivid odes. Another of Pindar's Olympian odes mentions "six double altars". In his Odes Pindar spins complimentary etymologies to flatter his patrons. Epicureanism is the dominant influence, characterizing about twice as many of these odes as Stoicism. The tunes suggest light, happy odes to love. Durrani wrote a collection of odes in his native Pashto language. Offerings and Pali prayers from a book of odes were also made to the images. Some of the odes are extremely spirited. In the 17th century, the most important original odes in English were by Abraham Cowley.