and the like? whereby the supreme poet manifests most clearly that music is united with the knowledge even of things divine.The wandering moon and labours of the Sun
Aen. i. 742.
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So too Timagenes
asserts that music is the oldest of the arts related to
literature, a statement which is confirmed by the testimony of the greatest of poets in whose songs we read
that the praise of heroes and of gods were sung to
the music of the lyre at the feasts of kings. Does not
lopas, the Vergilian bard, sing
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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