. Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... . Romans inmuch later times. The lower part of the inflrumenthas much the appearance of an old bafs viol, and it isnot difficult to difcover in it more than the cmbyo ofthe whole viclin family. The firings lie round, as if in-tended to-be played on with a bow % and even the crofs .lines on the tail piece are fuch as we frequently fee onthe tail-pieces of old viols. 5. The Tripodian lyr
. Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... . Romans inmuch later times. The lower part of the inflrumenthas much the appearance of an old bafs viol, and it isnot difficult to difcover in it more than the cmbyo ofthe whole viclin family. The firings lie round, as if in-tended to-be played on with a bow % and even the crofs .lines on the tail piece are fuch as we frequently fee onthe tail-pieces of old viols. 5. The Tripodian lyre of ^Pythagoras the Zacyn-thian, from a bafs-relicf in the Maffei palace at Romerepresenting the whole choir of the mufes. Athenseusgives the following account of this extraordinary in-flrument, lib. xiv. cap. 15. />. 637. Many ancientinftnimeiits arc recorded (fays Artemon), of whichwe have fo little knowledge, that we can hardly of their exiftencc; fuch as the tripod of Py-thagoras the Zacynthian, which, on account of , continued in ufe but a fhort -time. Itrefcmbled. in form the Delphic tripod, whence ithad its name. The legs were cquidiftant, and fixed upon r/t Plate CCL2XV.
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