LIFE OF POLYMNASTUS

and is said to have greatly increased the three-
quarter-tone lowering, and five-quarter-tone raising,
of notes in the scale.!

Aristophanes Anights: . . . That scoundrel Ari-
phrades . . . and doing, not singing, the ‘Polym-
nestian’ and consorting with Oconichus. Now
whoever is not utterly disgusted by such a man as
this, shall never drink out of the same cup as I.*

Hesychius Glossary: To sing the Polymnestian:
This was a kind of musical piece. Polymnestus was
a lyric poet of Colophon, of a very merry type.

Suidas Leaicon: Polymnestus: ... the Polym-
nestian are songs of Polymnestus who, like the
above, is satirised for his obscenity. Compare Crati-
nus: And learns music and sings the Polymnestian
songs.

lithe reading is doubtful, but cf. Mus. Seript. Gr. Janus
pp. 301, 302 += Baccheius 41, 42), and p. 300 (Bacch. 37)
where these are said to be features peculiar to the Enharmonic
scale 2 ef. Sch. Luc. p. 235 Jacobitz

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