TERPANDER

41 To tne Dioscurt
Dionysius of Halicarnassus Composition [on rhythines|:
The rhythm which consists entirely of long syllables ~called
glosses by the writers on metre--is clevated and dignitied
wed takes long strides τ and this is an example of it:
O [Sons} of Zeus and Leda, saviours nost beautiful.

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Straho Greorraphy [on Methymna}: Avion was a singer to
the lyre; and aceording to tradition the same branch of
music had an exponent in a native of the same island,
Terpwnder, who was the first to use a lyre with seven strings
insteal of four, as is recorded in the epie lines ascribed to
him:

To thee we will play new hymns upon a lyre of
seven strings, and will love the four-voiced lay no
more.?

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Plutarch Life of Lyewrgus: Indeed if the reader will
@ousider the Laconian poetry of which some is still extant
and the march-rhythms the Spartans used to the tune of the
flute when they went into battle, he will conclude that both
Terpander and Pindar have good reason to connect valour
With music as the former does where he says of Sparta :

Where bloom both the spear of the young men
and the clear sweet Muse, and cke that aider

unto noble deeds, Justice that goeth in broad
Bireets.. .3

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Johannes Lydus On the Menths: According to Terpander
Gf Lesbos, Dionysus, who is sometimes called Sabazius. was
nursed by Nyssa; le was the son of Zeus and Persephone
and was eventually torn in pieces by the Titans.!

1 ascription doubtful * ς΄. εἰ. δι». Harm. 19, Cram.

4.7.1. 56.10, Clem. Al. Str. 6. S14, Poll. 4. 66 * ef, Arr.
Tort. tin. 4 of. Inser. Theatr. Dion. Keil PAcJo7, 23° GOS

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