GAMES, 
which it waced that he gained four prizes, fucceffively, at 
thofe folem 
. After focaking of the vi€tories obtained by this venerable 
bard, at the public games, it feems neceffary 
what minute in defcribing thefe memorable inftitutions, as 
far as they concern mufic. .. And, in order to convey to t 
reader as clear an idea as we are able, © rank which 
mufic and muficians held at thefe affemblies, we thal give 
fome account of each of the four principal or facred games, 
feparately ; and firlt, of the ces games. 
Thucydides ee us that 
were “* games: 
odily oxercife, and of mulic, in whic 
pi sages ee ee chorufes;’? and, in ane : 
he i otes the’ rollowing verles from Home 
ioihk to Apo 
s¢ To thee, : ‘Phebus, moft the Delian ifle 
-- Gives cordial joy, excites the pleafing {mile ; 
i gee thy 4 fane ; 
Where champion mean where doncersbeathe gros, 1 
Thy feaft to honour and thy at re found.” 
That there was alfo, continues Thucydides, a mufical 
game, to which artifte reforted. to age meng 3 0 
ie r fully fhews in other verfes to i 
: for haviag fung the Delian on: of fem 
aie the praife with thefe lines, in which he makes fome 
mention — f.* 
Saythe blind b 
He lives at Chios, and he plea 
original pect us feem m 
untainted, by ludicrous fimilit 
Hor 
Delian pri 
ee elos er i that they were 1 sien adepts' im the art o 
imickry 3 and that part of the entertainment a th 
seid oe spe numerous peop: « ro) ent n 
formed th soa es 
from thelr ae - ed o gna ee voices and the puifa- 
tion, or meafure, of all nations: and fo. exaCily was their 
fong adapted, that every man would think he-himfelf was 
nging. 
Homer feems to-fketch out i aes of ee performance 
in-thefe. old aa’ confervatori 158: firft they fung a 
meee in.praife of Apollo : el aes in a ee a Latona 
Diana: then. re defcended to the celebration of human 
8 
to be fome- 
a 
very remote antiquity there’ 
Ee 
' gymnaftic exercifes, and no part of the 
odi 
‘ily to ae "fabled, pure and 
udes . 
heroes and heroines of. ancient times; and it feems to have 
een in this part of their gale wane that they exerted their 
mimetic powers, and aie the n 
ough Mr “ " Difetatin on the Olympic 
Games,”’ d of the odes of Pindar, tells 
efe affembles were me nere by perfons of 
eft eminence in all the arts of peace, iuch as hifto- 
rs, philo 
admiffion there. Indeed thefe were not the princ 
tentions at Olympia, as they we Delphos, and in fome 
other public games; being fubordinate to the athletic and 
entathlon, or five 
ly exercifes, of leaping, running, throwing the quoit or 
dart, nie xing and wreitling ; ; though even thefe were ac- 
companied by the flute; for Paufanias {ays that Pythocritus 
of the pentathlon at | ony 
fill and abilities which eae anifefted in his art, a Tllat aa 
atue were erected to him with this infcription ; 
IIY@OKPITOY 
KAAAINIKOY 
_ i A 
AUHTA 
“To the memory of Pye, he upon the flute.” 
We have the nee emai a 
companied by t mpet ; conc 
us that the sBenraine was Tkewife accom ud by the 
[ee 
Paufanias alfo remarks, that there = a Gymnafum near, 
ichmioni, which wa 
0 
panion of poetry, could not have been excl uded. 
_ lian tells us likewife, that, in the gift ‘Olympiad, 416 
B.C., Xenocles and Euripides difputed the prize of dra- 
yim 
therefore, a the cafe was 
the fame at a ‘publ lic recital 5, at 
leaft w 
ith spi to the ie ey of the dra 
th oye mpiad a prize was inftituted 
ad Calc. Chron. Eufeb. ). 
Thefe premiums 
eem een temporary, but to have been conti- 
nued Tong after their firft eftablifhment; for Atheneus 
informs us, that the famous trumpet 
ra, was victor at the Olympic games ten: 
Jul. Pollux fays fifteen. Thefe writers mutt m 
rcle y beige games, having been crowned at the oye 
; n, Nemean, and Iithmian Ae turns. 
to have bee 
oe eae the ‘Savas 
at the games for the combatants i engage, and announced 
their 
