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Show 46 THE CODE OF TERPSICHORE. instrument. Music was almost universally cultivated in Greece, lhose who had no knowledge of this art were in some measure despised and regarded as barbarians. The Arcadians, says Polybius, having despised the laws of harmony, fell from civilization and humanity into a ferocious barbarism, and thenceforward were continually troubled with dissentions. The natives of Gaul, on the contrary, who had formerly been savage and untractable, became, by a different education, gentle and docile. Doctor Zulatti has also copiously treated of this matter, and with much good sense, as may be seer, in his dialogues. 36. Rollin, Histoire Ancienne, T o m IV. livre 10, chap. 1 § 10, pp. 578 aud 579. 37- Fab. Quintil. Instit. Orat. rib. 1 cap. xi. 38. Scaliger, Tom. III. page 13. Athenaeus, lib. 4. cap. 6. et lib. 1. cap. 19. 39. Vide Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicates. 40. Vide-idem. 41. ' Music also has, at times, operated wonderful cures. Democritus and Theophrastus have transmitted some of its miracles to posterity. Plutarch and Boetius have recorded the names of Terpandre, Thales of Creta, Ism^nie, Xenocratcs, Hycrophilus, and a few others, who made a valuable use of music to the same purpose. The modern Italian music is deserving of a similar commendation. 42. I shall demonstrate, in the part on Theatrical Dancing, by what means physical defects in dancers may be in some measure concealed 43. The first Greek sculptor. 44. The first Greek painter. 45. An actor, dancer, and a famous mimic. |