Arts & Sciences
Book IX, 340
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
The double flute was the work of Phrygian Hyagnis at the time when the Mother of the gods first revealed her rites on Cybela, and when the frantic servant of the Idaean chamber first loosed his lovely locks to my notes. But if the shepherd of Celaenae was known earlier as a better player, his strife with Phoebus flayed him.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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