The antiquities of Herculaneum . layed upon with the fingers; excepting that in which Achilles isinftrufted by Chiron, where the centaur has a pleclrum in his hand : and yet, fincehe was a confummate mufician, we fhould rather fuppofe him xSugcuv pf/a %sp<riv ap/xtTo-Hv, to have Jlruck with his hands the founding lyre, as we read of him inOrpheus, or whoever he be, Argon, v. 380. But becaufe in that picture Chiron isteaching, he ought therefore to be reprefented with the inftruments fuitable to thecharacter of a mafter. In other pieces, where the player is fuppofed to be mafterof his art, h
The antiquities of Herculaneum . layed upon with the fingers; excepting that in which Achilles isinftrufted by Chiron, where the centaur has a pleclrum in his hand : and yet, fincehe was a confummate mufician, we fhould rather fuppofe him xSugcuv pf/a %sp<riv ap/xtTo-Hv, to have Jlruck with his hands the founding lyre, as we read of him inOrpheus, or whoever he be, Argon, v. 380. But becaufe in that picture Chiron isteaching, he ought therefore to be reprefented with the inftruments fuitable to thecharacter of a mafter. In other pieces, where the player is fuppofed to be mafterof his art, he is drawn without a pleclrum. However, Apollo himfelf fometimeshas this inftrun^ent, and fometimes not. [5] The heathens believed that mufic rendered the gods propitious, by mitigatingtheir wrath. Cenforinus de die nat. cap. xiii. Arnobius adv. Gentes, lib. vii. Henceit was that no facred feftivity, either among the Greeks or barbarians, was cele-brated without mufic. Strabo, x. p. 467. Plutarch, in his treatife upon mufic, the. P L A T* E XXXVITI. ,5g the reins are managed by another little Cupid, who holds a obferves, that by the flatue of Apollo at Delos, the three graces are reprefentedwith the fifivda, the tibia, and the cithara, which were the beft known and moilancient instruments, in their hands. The mofi ancient, becaufe the mod fimple,was the Jiflida, or pipe. Callimachus, Hymn, in Dian. v. 244. -This gave place tothe tibia, or flute ; to which fucceeded the cithara, or lyre, an inftrument morecompound, difficult, and grand. Athenaeus, iv. p. 184. Ariftophanes, the lyre mother of hymns, becaufe the praifes of the gods were ufuully lungto that inftrument. Plato, Re pub. in. banifhes the tibia from his flate, but retainsthe cithara as an ufeful inftrument, and favourable to the caufe of virtue. Aefchy-?lus in Athenaeus, xiv. p. 631. calls thofe who play upon the cithara xroQtgaq: andAthenaeus himfelf, up. 14. calls them philofophers; and adds, that, accor
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