Alexander in his Collections of Phrygia says, that
Olympus was the first that brought into Greece the manner of touching the strings with a quill; and next to him
were the Idaean Dactyli; Hyagnis was the first that sang
to the pipe; after him his son Marsyas, then Olympus;
that Terpander imitated Homer in his verses and Orpheus in his musical compositions; but that Orpheus never
imitated any one, since in his time there were none but
such as composed to the pipe, which was a manner quite
different from that of Orpheus. Clonas, a composer of
nomes for flute-music, and somewhat later than Terpander, as the Arcadians affirm, was born in Tegea or, as the
Boeotians allege, at Thebes. After Terpander and Clonas
flourished Archilochus; yet there are some writers who
affirm, that Ardalus the Troezenian taught the manner of
composing to wind-music before Clonas. There was also the
poet Polymnestus, the son of Meles the Colophonian, who
invented the Polymnestian measures. They farther write
that Clonas invented the nomes Apothetus and Schoenion.
Of Polymnestus mention is made by Pindar and Alcman,
both lyric poets; but of several of the lyric nomes said to
be instituted by Terpander they make Philammon (the ancient Delphian) author.
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