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There was also another mood in use among the ancients, called Cradias, which Hipponax says Mimnermus
always delighted in. For formerly they that played upon
the flute sang also elegies at the same time set to notes.
Which the description of the Panathenaea concerning the
musical combat makes manifest. Among the rest, Sacadas
of Argos set several odes and elegies to music, he himself
being also a good flute-player and thrice a victor at the
Pythian games. Of him Pindar makes mention. Now
whereas in the time of Polymnestus and Sacadas there
existed three musical moods, the Dorian, Phrygian, and
Lydian, it is said that Sacadas composed a strophe in every
one of those moods, and then taught the choruses to sing
the first after the Dorian manner, the second according to
the Phrygian, and the third after the Lydian manner; and
this nome was called Trimeres (or threefold) by reason of
the shifting of the moods, although in the Sicyonian catalogue of the poets Clonas is said to be the inventor of this
name.
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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