GAMES. 
their fuccefs, but proclaimed peate and war, and edeiaee 
fignals of facrifice and filence, at religious cere 
ierodorus is allowed to have been paeooe with 
eae Poliorcetes, - may be placed about the 120th 
m ording to the authors already cited, 
he was as remarkable i co gigantic figure and enormous 
appetite, as for the ftrength o lungs, which were fo 
powerful in blowing the trumpet, that he could not be heard 
with fafety, unlefs at a. great diftance. pha upon thefe 
s confined to the 
found themfelves alive and well, 
ended. An epigram of Archias, the Hyblean re ban 
is preferved in Jul. Pollux; in which he dedicates a ftatue 
fr gai in gratitude for his poets age — to ares 
thout 
the Olympic games with his trum e times, wit 
ue welling ie cheeks, or a bloodeffel, ees he founded 
vith all his force, and without a capiftrum, or r muzzle. 
. Even the flute had its dangers, if Lucian may be credited, 
= relates, with the appearance of great gravity, that 
Harmonides, a- young flute-player, and {cholar so Timo- 
a at his firft public performance, in order ‘ 
earers, began his folo with fo ise a blatt Ga he 
breathed his -lait breath into his flute, and died upon the 
{po 
This account is fo extraordinary, that it feems to require 
the teftimony of the author’s own words: warerivestw ovary, 
br eathed his laft ee into the fute 3 3 and » re oxmy aneBore, 
he died aid the 
Plutarch, and feveral ancient writers, fpeak of a kind of 
cae performa nce at the public games among the rhap- 
{odifts, who ufed to collect together favourite paflages of 
ap 
according to Atheneus, fung by memory at the Olympic 
games an entire poem, calle ie = expiations, compofed by 
‘Empe docles. See RHarso 
'* Asa farther proof of age contetts forming a part of 
the Olympic games, we fhall id ean that the naar 
enter- 
ing with the c facil fmt 
‘to os the nfual preparatory dife ane i well the 
rigour of the theatrical laws, during fer samen ; and, 
afterwards, eee the favour of the nomodi€tai, or 
umpires, by all the feeming fubmiffion and anxiety of a pro- 
emperor, an emperor, 
rics of this kind have not come down to ae though every 
fuccefsful hero had a bard to record his vi€tory, and t 
chant his virtues. Both Simonides and Bacchy tides com- 
ues 
pofed hymns in honour of kin ro, as well as Pindar ; 
but we fhall give fufficient teftimony hereafter of innumerable 
compofitions of the like {pecies having been produced, and 
fung upon fimilar occafions, by the greateit poets and mufi- 
cians of antiquity. 
The Pythic games, Paufanias inférms us, confilted, oe 
ancient rg poe 
= a and mufical contetts, and t 
prize wa: o had written and fun 
beft ieee in alias of pees At their firft ae ee 
Cpeytethemss ‘of Crete, the fon of Carmanor, who purified 
Apollo, after he had killed the Python, was vidtor. 
Aker him oe on, the fon of Chryfothemis, won the 
prize ; and was crowned, ‘was amyris, 
the ‘fon of Philammon Eleutherus is sey to- 
ed admiffion among the candidates, on account of his 
not having been able to acco as ake mfelf upon the lyre ; 
and that Homer, though he went to Delphos to oo the. 
oracle, yet, on account of his *plindnefs on infirmities, he 
made but little ufe of. nel ela of finging and playing 
ee the lyre at the fame 
nce it appears, that each mufical contefts were, per. 
is, not ranked ame the — and eftablifhed ee 
of the Olympic games, yet antiquity agrees, that no 
others were ante ae he Pythic during the fir ages 
of their celebratio 
N 
ythic combats: 
wat pera repeat ted 
on the fecond year lad. . 
Paufanias, in his enumeration of the ‘oufical contefts that 
were added to the ancient Pythic. games, at the clofé of the 
riffgan war, tells us, that the Amphiétyons- propofed 
es, not only for thofe mitficians who. fung beit to the 
ccompaniinent of the oF ie . y combat at the arft 
n h ae thers, sie to fuch as 
teft between wen and Marfyas, is mentioned 
authors, before this time, except that of the trumpet ; the’ 
Iyre and flute having, in public exhibitions, been, mere ate 
tendants on the voice, 
y when Sacadas i is Sanaa to 
e played his Pythic air on ite flute Ww 
eos Apollo (or his pr ieft) to that pees 
till then, was faid to have had it in abhorrence ever fee 
conteft wit “This mifician was not crowned ‘ke 
firft time he played at the Pythic games, but in the two fub- 
fequent "Pythiads he obtained thie ‘prize » which furnifhes a 
roof that inftrumental mufic, feparated re vocal, began 
now. to be fuccefsfully cultivated among the Greeks. 
After this, the fame games and combats were eftablithed 
at Delphos as at Olympia. The Amphiétyons retrenched. 
the flute accompaniment, on account of that inftrument. 
ya! too plaintive, and fit only for a and elegies, 
which it was chiefly appropriated. 
Paufanias, is given in the offering which Eechembrotus made 
el eel a bronze earn with this ‘infer ript ion 
At the ‘eighth Pythi a 559 ¥ s B.C. a crown was 
given to players upon fringed a aor alga finging,, 
which was won by Agelaus of Tegea. 
The 
