STUDY xiv. 335 



Lycurgus farther introduced among them the ufe 

 of mùfic, in various fpecies of exercife, and, among 

 others, into the art of war*. *' When their army 

 " was drawn up, and the enemy near, the King 

 " facrificed a goat, commanded the foldiers to fet 

 ** their garlands upon their heads, and the mufi- 

 ** cians to play the tune of the Hymn to Cajior, and 

 *' he himfelf advancing forwards, began the P^an, 

 " which ferved for a fignal to fall on. It was at 

 *' once a folemn and a terrible fight, to fee them 

 *' march on to the combat, cheerfully and fedately, 

 ** without any diforder in their ranks, or difcom- 

 " pofure in their minds, meafuring their fleps by 

 ** the mufic of their flutes. Men in this temper 

 " were not likely to be poffeffed with fear, or 

 " tranfported with fury ; but they proceeded with 

 ** a deliberate valour, and confidence of fuccefs, 

 ** as if fome divinity had fenfibly aflifted them." 



Thus, confidering the difference of modern Na- 

 tions, mufic would ferve to reprefs their courage, 

 rather than to excite it ; and they had no occafion, 

 for that purpofe, of bears-fkin caps, nor of brandy, 

 nor of drums. 



If mufic and poetry had fo much power at 

 Sparta, to recal corrupted men to the pradlice of 



* Plutarch\ Life of Lycurgus, 



virtue. 



