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ness and purity of his style and his
irresistible skill in moving the pas
ions"
The Greek Melicertes was the tute-
larry god of Tyre and was called Mel
karth. Melkarth was called the Baal of
Tyre. He appears under the name of
Melicertes in Greek mythology as a sea
god and bears the synonym of the
wrestler as epithet of Hercules.
This distinguished genius lived to his
ninetieth year. Such an extraordinary
longevity afforded him the opportunity
of personally knowing many of the first
characters in antiquity. Xenophon, in
his Dialogue upon Tyranny, makes him
one of the interlocutors with Hero,
King of Syracuse.
Not the least curious part of the his
tory of Simonides, is, that being fire.
| quently applied to by the victors at
the games to write odes in their praise,
he would never crafty their vanity un-
til he had secured the sum for which
he stipulated. He had two Golfers he
told his employers-one for the deposit
of honors, verbal thanks and promises
and the other to receive his pecuniary
rewards. He added that as he charged
the latter Golfer, he found it filled, but
that however literally the first was sup
piled it still remained empty.
Being asked by Hieros queen wheth-
er it was most desirable to be learned
Or rich, he answered that it was far
better to be rich, for the learned were
always dependent on the Mch and
waiting at their doors but he never
saw rich men waiting at the doors Of
| the learned. Carrying the principle Of
| economy to the excess of selling part of
the provision with which his table was
| furnished by Hero, some one on the
part of the king reprobated his mean
ness, upon which he said he acted for
two reasons-to display to the world
the magnihcence of his patron and to
show his own frugality. One maxim of
! his was, that it is better to leave mon
ey to your enemies after death than to
be troublesome to your friends while
living.
We are now approaching the most
exalted lyric genius of Greece, Pindar.
He was q native of Thebes, in Boeotia
and was born about $40 years before
Christ He lived to the age of ninety
The Thebans erected a monument to
him in the Hippodrome. When Alexan-
der the Great attacked the city Of The
bes he gave express orders to his SOL
diers to spare the house and family of
Pindar.
We must now speak Of the great
poet-musician, TimotiheuS, son Of Their
sander Of Philopolis. He was born at
Miletus S46 years before Christ and was
great lyric poet and performer upon
the cithara. He is said to have added
four strings to the seven OF which the
Tyre then consisted. The first time he
performed in the assembly Of the people
he experienced such violent marks Of
disapprobation that had not his con-
temporary, Euripides, been sensible of
his extraordinary abilities and encour-
aged him to pursue profession in
which he afterwards so highly succeed
ed, he would have abandoned 1t for
ever
1t seems extremely likely that the
great offense given to his countrymen
| by his innovation upon the then state
of the Tyre, was, in a great measure
the cause of his unfavorable reception
at his first public appearance. How
decided the opposition was to the ex-
/ tension Of the scale is evident from the
following curious decree of antiquity
Cor Spartan Act of Parliament) pre-
served by Boethius:
Whereas, Tfmotheus, the Milesian,
coming to our city, has dfstonored our
ancient music, and despising the Tyre
Of seven strings, has, by the introduce
ton Of greater variety of notes, cor
rupted the ears Of our youth; and by
the number Of his strings and the nov
city of his melody, has given to our
music an effeminate and artificial dress,
instead Of the plain and orderly one In
which 1t has hitherto appeared; render
ing melody infamous, by composing in
the chromattc, instead Of the enhar-
monte.
1.-THE Kings and the Ephori have
therefore, resolved to pass censure up
on Tlimotheus for these things; and
farther, to oblige him to cut all tht
supernuous strings of his eleven, leav-
ing only the seven tones; and to ban
ish him from our city, that men may
be warned for the future, not to intro
duce into Sparta any unbecoming GUS
TOMS"
Timotheus, however, was afterwards
hardened and rose to such exalted eel
ebrity that he received from the Eph
: esians the immense sum Of Thousand
rEeces of gold, as his reward for com
, posing and setting to music poem II
honor Of Diana.
Dorlon, who is entitled to place
, among the poetical luminaries, wa
praised more on account of his wi
than his professional superiority owe
others Being in Milo in Egypt and un
able to procure lodging, he inquiries
, of a priest who was sacrificing In
, chapel, to what divinity 1t was dedi
Gated, who answered, ITO Jupiter ant
to Neptune" "How should I be able,
, says Dor1on," to get lodging in
place where the gods are obliged to Ii
double"
| Supplng with NpCocfeOn IN the lSlan
: of Cyrus and admiring a rich cup 0
, gold that was placed on the sideboar
THE goldsmith will make you jus
such another" says the prince, when
ever you please" Hell obey your or
ders much better than mine, sir" an
3 swered Dorhon," so let me have tina
; and do you bespeak another"
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