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mus found out gold in the mountain Pangaeus in Thrace ( 5 ), andG* EEKS -copper at Thebes ( 6 ) ; whence copper ore is ftill called Cadmia.
Where they fettled they wrought firft in copper, till iron wasinvented ; and then in iron : and when they had made them-felves armour, they danced in it at the facrifices with tumuit andclamour, and bells, and pipes, and drums, and fwords, withwhich they ftruck upon one another’s armour, in mufical times,appearing feized with a divine fury ; and this is reckoned the ori-ginal of mufic in Greece. So Solinus, a " Studium mujicum inde *^}’™- Po ^" coeptum , cum Idai DaSlyli modulos , crepitu & tinnitu aris depfe-" henfos, in verjificum- ordinem tranjlulijfent and Ifidorus, b " Stu-* ifiJor. ori-
ginum. libfc
" dium muficum ab Idais HaSlyUs coepi utri' Apollo and the Mu-xi. c. 5.fes were two generations later. Clemens c calls the Idai Dactyli*^™bartiarous, that is ftrangers; and faith, that they were reputed thec. xfirft wife men, to whom both the letters which they call Ephefian,and the invention of mufical rhythfnes are referred. It feemsthat when the Phoenician letters, afcribed to Cadmus, wrerebrought into Greece, they were at the fame time brought intoPhrygia and Crete by the Curetes ; whb fettled in thofe countries,and called them Ephefiart, from the city Ephefus ( 7 ), where they*were firft taught. The Curetes, by their manufa< 5 turing copperand iron, and making fwords, and armour, and edged tools forhewing and carving of wood, brought into Europe a new way“of fighting; and gave Minos an opportunity of building a fleet,and gaining the dominion of the feas; and fet on foot the tradesof fmiths and carpenters in Greece, which are the foundation of'manual trades. The d fleet of Minos was without fails; and Dae-* PauQu|dalus fled from him by adding fails to his veflel: and thereforefhips with fails were not ufed by the Greeks before the flight of
Strom. I. x.5-?>rzr.
I. y. c. 11.
§ LXIX.
(') Diod. Sic. lib. 5. c. 49. p. 222, — c. 64. p. 230. Paufan, lib. 5. c. 7. p. 391.
( 3 ) Diod. Sic. lib. 5. c. 55. p. 226.
( 4 ) Apollodor. lib. 1. c. 7. § VI. Conon. Narrat." 14.’ Paufan. lib. 5. c. l. p. 375, 376.
( s ) Pii», lib. 7. c. 37. ( s ) Hygin. Fab. 274.
( 7 ) The Ep£o-<« yfK/jipala, mentioned by Clemeris, were not letters of the alphabet, as our au»thor imagines, but certain magical words written on the feet, crown, and girdle of the EpheiianDiana. Euftath. in Hom. p. 1864, bn. 10—20. edit.Rom. Thefe words, with thf intefpitta-tion of them, are to be found in I^efychius and Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom. lib. ;.-c. 8. p. 24i.Wonderful virtues were afcribed to them; but whether they operatedby being uttered, or by be-ing worn about the perfon, feems not agreed amdrig the antient writers,
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