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Polymnestus also composed nomes for flute-music;
but in the Orthian nome he made use of his lyric vein, as
the students in harmony declare. But in this we cannot
be positive, because we have nothing of certainty concerning it from antiquity; and whether Thaletas of Crete was
a composer of hymns is much doubted. For Glaucus,
asserting Thaletas to be born after Archilochus, says that he
imitated the odes of Archilochus, only he made them longer,
and used the Paeonic and Cretic rhythm, which neither
Archilochus nor Orpheus nor Terpander ever did; for
Thaletas learned these from Olympus, and became a good
poet besides. As for Xenocritus the Locrian from Italy,
it is much questioned whether he was a maker of paeans
or not, as being one that always took heroic subjects with
dramatic action for his verses, for which reason some
there were who called his arguments Dithyrambic. More
over, Glaucus asserts Thaletas to have preceded him in
time.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 1.
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