. Pieriae nymphae (Cic. ii. 21, 54).— of the Muses. That there were nineMuses instead of the usual three (according tothe number of Graces, Hours, Sec.) was probablydue to the form which the choruses took round tions the number three was asserted. Pausaniasand Plutarch speak of three Muses at one timehonoured on Helicon (where their names weresaid to be Melete, Mneme, and Aoide), atDelphi and at Sicyon (Paus. is. 29; fl. Tcrpnichoro. tho Muro of the Choral I inner(From (.he VpothooslH of Homer, In tinUrltltkh Mu

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. Pieriae nymphae (Cic. ii. 21, 54).— of the Muses. That there were nineMuses instead of the usual three (according tothe number of Graces, Hours, Sec.) was probablydue to the form which the choruses took round tions the number three was asserted. Pausaniasand Plutarch speak of three Muses at one timehonoured on Helicon (where their names weresaid to be Melete, Mneme, and Aoide), atDelphi and at Sicyon (Paus. is. 29; fl. Tcrpnichoro. tho Muro of the Choral I inner(From (.he VpothooslH of Homer, In tinUrltltkh MuHruin.) ? Erato, the Muro of Erotic1oetry. (From a Rtatuc inthe \ iitieiinj . Polymnln. tho Muse of theSublime Hymn. (From iiHtatuc In the Louvro.) the sacred springs, in three rows of three Symp. ix. 14); and Cicero () speaks of fourmaidens. In the Iliad the Muses an- spoken of Muses as belonging to one tradition; but thesesometimes in the singular, sometimes in the is no sufficient reason for regarding the numberplural, but without definite number. Nine nine, which eventually prevailed, as a moreMuses are first mentioned in Oil. xxiv. lid, and recent trudition than tlie others.—8. future V V 578 MUSAE

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