[450] According to the present hymn, Apollo and the Muses had known only the flute (452) until Hermes invented the lyre; in h. Apoll. 131 Apollo claims the lyre as his own in his childhood. According to a third version, Apollo and Hermes fought for the lyre; e.g. in a group at Helicon, Paus.ix. 30. 1(see B. C. H. xv. p. 399). For other representations of this version cf. Monumenti 1830, pl. ix. 2.
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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