LIFE OF TERPANDER

and changed the style of musie SS] years, in the
archonship of Dropides at Athens (πιο 615).

Eusebius Chronicle: Olympiad 35. 2 (pe. O17)
Mourished Terpander the singer to the lyre.

Timotheus Persae: In the beginning did Orpheus
son of Calliop¢é beget the motley-musicked shell on
Mount Pieria, and after him came the famous ‘Ter-
pander, born of Aeolian Lesbos at Antissa. and
yoked the Muse unte poems ten. And lo! now
Timotheus giveth the lyre new life with times and
measures of eleven strings.

Aristotle Problems: Why is the octave described
as drapason or sat an interval of all, rather than
numerically αἰ an interval of eight,” as we say ‘at
an interval of four’ or of five’? Is it because the
strings were in old times seven, and Terpander
removed the ‘third’ when he added the xefe or
‘highest, thus keeping the total seven and not
increasing it to eight??

Plutarch on J/asre > The musical historians attrib-
uted the Dorian xefe or octave-noete to Terpander,
musicians before him not having emploved it.

The Same fen Timotheus}]: Down to the time of
Aristocleides the lyre had had seven strings. ‘Timo-
theus divided the Perpandrean mode into a greater
number of notes.*

Suidas Lereon: Terpander: Variously described
as of Arne. a Lesbian of Antissa, and of Cyme 3;
according to some authorities a descendant of
Hesiod, or again of Homer, with the pedigree

hr. ἢ * the reading is doubtful 3 Dioderus in
Tuetses Chil, 1.16 calls him a Methymnaean

1 We estphal -E: ss ἕως cis Τέρπαι δρον» τὸν ᾿Αντισσαῖον

Sef. fr. 5

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