A dictionary of Greek and Roman . est, 1/77x77, irapavriTr],irapafxeai], /ueo-77, Xlxclvos, , ].(Bbckh, de Metris Pindari, p. 205, &c.) Pindarhimself made use of the heptachord, though inhis time an eighth string had been added. Inthe time of Philip and Alexander the number ofstrings was increased to eleven by Timotheus ofMiletus (Suidas, s. v. Tijxodeos ; Miiller, Dor. §3), an innovation which was severely cen-sured by the Spartans, who refused to go beyondthe number of seven strings. (Cic. de Leg. ii. 15 ;Athen. xiv. p. 636.) It is however clear that t
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . est, 1/77x77, irapavriTr],irapafxeai], /ueo-77, Xlxclvos, , ].(Bbckh, de Metris Pindari, p. 205, &c.) Pindarhimself made use of the heptachord, though inhis time an eighth string had been added. Inthe time of Philip and Alexander the number ofstrings was increased to eleven by Timotheus ofMiletus (Suidas, s. v. Tijxodeos ; Miiller, Dor. §3), an innovation which was severely cen-sured by the Spartans, who refused to go beyondthe number of seven strings. (Cic. de Leg. ii. 15 ;Athen. xiv. p. 636.) It is however clear that theancients made use of a variety of lyres, and in therepresentations which we still possess, the numberof strings varies from three to eleven. About thetime of Sappho and Anacreon several stringed in-struments, such as magadis, barbiton, and others,were used in Greece, and especially in had been introduced from Asia Minor, andtheir number of strings far exceeded that of thelyre, for we know that some had a compass of LYRA. 721. two octaves, and others had even twenty strings,so that they must have more resembled a modernharp than a lyre. (Bode, Gescli. der Lyrisch. Dicht-kanst der Hellenen, vol. i. p. 382, &c. ; compareQuinctil. xii. 10.) It has been remarked above that the name lyraoccurs very seldom in the earliest Greek writers,and that originally this instrument and the citharawere the same. But about the time of Pindar in-novations seem to have been introduced by whichthe lyra became distinct from the cithara, the in-vention of which was ascribed to Apollo, and hencethe name of the former now occurs more frequentlv.(Pind. 01. x. 113, Nem. iii. 19, xi. 8, 42, et passim.) Both however had in mostcases no more than seven strings. The differencebetween the two instruments is described above ;the lyre had a great and full-sounding bottom,which continued as before to be made generally ofa tortoise-shell, from which, as Lucian {Dial. ) expresses it, t
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