[17]
So far I have
attempted merely to sound the praises of the noblest
[p. 169]
of arts without bringing it into connexion with the
education of an orator. I will therefore pass by the
fact that the art of letters and that of music were
once united: indeed Archytas and Euenus held
that the former was subordinate to the latter, while
we know that the same instructors were employed
for the teaching of both from Sophron, a writer of
farces, it is true, but so highly esteemed by Plato,
that he is believed to have had Sophron's works
under his pillow on his deathbed:
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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