I made a noise, bringing the deep-toned flute With fluent rhythm. Where he means Phrygian rhythm; and he calls the Phrygian flute deep-toned. For it is deep; on which account they also add a horn to it, having a similarity to the bell mouth of trumpets. So now this book may be ended, my friend Timocrates; as it is quite long enough. FOOTNOTES: [210:1] Theophrastus was a disciple of Aristotle, and succeeded him as head of the Lyceum, so that this time would be about 310 B.C. [211:1] A cotyla held about half a pint. [212:1] Held on the thirteenth day of the month Anthesterion; being the first day of the great festival Anthesteria. [218:1] The cercope, or monkey-grasshopper, was so called from having a long tail like a monkey (κέρκωψ). [220:1] See Pope's Homer for his version of the different parts parodied. Odyss. i. 1. [220:2] Iliad, x. 436. [220:3] Ib. xx. 223. [220:4] Odyss. v. 51. [220:5] Iliad, xxiii. 51. [220:6] Odyss. i. 334. [221:1] This was a Greek proverb. See Aristophanes, Eq. 1279. [221:2] Odyss. xi. 575. [221:3] Ib. xi. 543. [221:4] Ib. ix. 27. [221:5] Iliad, ii. 745. [222:1] Odyss. ix 292. [222:2] Iliad, ii. 489. [225:1] From τιθήνη, a nurse. [227:1] From κάπτω, to swallow. [228:1] The Attic medimnus contained nearly twelve gallons. [228:2] The χοῦς held about three quarts. [228:3] An obol was about three half-pence or rather more. [229:1] From σκιὰ, shade. [230:1] A cotyla held about half a pint. [230:2] A cyathus held about a twelfth part of a pint. [232:1] A stater was about 3_s._ 3_d._ [238:1] I have only attempted here to extract a few of the sentences and words which appeared a little intelligible. The whole quotation is perhaps the most hopelessly corrupt in all Athenæus. Schweighauser says,--"Even the most learned men have given up the whole extract in despair," and that it is only a very few words from which he can extract any sense by the greatest freedom of conjecture. [244:1] A chœnix held about a quart. [244:2] The magadis was a three-cornered instrument like a harp, with twenty strings arranged in octaves, like the πῆκτις. It was also a Lydian name for a peculiar kind of flute or flageolet, producing a high and low note at the same time. V. Liddell and Scott in voc. [264:1] The term ἅλμη, _brine_, seems used here of a troublesome fellow; something in the same spirit as we call a person "a pickle." [274:1] This is a mistake; the passage occurs in the first book. [275:1] The candylus or candaulus was the name of a Lydian dish. [283:1] "Λυσιῳδὸς, ὁ καὶ ἡ, a man who played women's characters in male attire; so called from Lysis, who wrote songs for such actors."--Liddell and Scott, in voc. BOOK V.