GAMES. 
he prize given to the victors at the Pythic games con- 
fifted either of “apples, confecrated to Apollo, or, as Pindar 
informs us, of laurel Or tite which, according to Paufanias, 
c' games, in allufion to Apollo’s 
Strabo, Gauge of the different kinds of contefts efta- 
blithed by the Amphiétyons, at the firft Pythic games, after 
the Criffeans were {ubdued, mentions a particular {pecies of 
ymn in praife of 
was called the Prelu a, 
igs the Onfet, or eee ng 
the Heat of the Baitle; the fourth, the Song of Vi idlory, or 
the infults of Apollo over the ferpent Python, compoied of 
jambics and daétyls; and the fifth, the Hiff ing of the dying 
na 
of the combat ; 
Both Plutarch fay Panfenia 
—. nnot be found at prefent, The re eee ° 
“Sacadas muft doubtlefs ee been very great, for Plutarch 
wate) t is name was inferted in the Pythic lift of goo 
and ss that he found his ftatue, with a flute 
in his cau, on mount Helicon, and eae omb. . Ar 
are the more minute in {peaking of th 
as he is the firft upon sia who detached aule ie poetry, 
nd who, though a poet himfelf, engaged the publi 
attention in favour a mere inftrumenta al mufic:; a{chifm 
h 
t has been.as feverely cenfured as.any the church 
The cenfurers, however, have forgotten that fuch {chifms, 
in the arts, are as much t defired, as t of religion 
are to be a ; fince it is by fuch feparations only that 
the different es and different branches the 
becoming the objects of feparate and exclufive cultivation, 
are brought to eee laf ee pear and. perfeCti 
After maciarges had a the road to fa , by ns 
of ‘inftrume nufic, it was fo Succefsfully, sce ney , 
it 
Pythocritus of yen. whofe ft 
pia, that he ga 
the flute, fix different times. 
_ After their regular celebration was eftablifhed, a cata- 
the moft illuftrious poets bend 
an encouragement of the 
e was erected at Olym- 
feQtion in woe 
Saeadas, Stefichorus, Tyrteus, Tlefilla, Rhi » Alcman, 
Arion, Mimnermus, Alceus, Sappho , Theognis, Poaacicon, 
ses Si unas vee mn ae and, Pind 
by Paufanias, ea we thall give tl ti 
called Perfians 
Tg0s 
$ per. erfonage, of 
ained the prize at Delphos, as afolo playeron ; 
afked his 
herald vie even called ars 
enti "ey and Jeave 
to {peak for 
«© Philopcemen being ‘elected a fecond time . general of the 
Achwa ans, foon after he had gained the celebrated battle of 
antinea, entered the theatre at the Nemean 
ginning o 
“ Behold the hero, from whofe glorious deeds 
‘Our Lae bleffing, uber, oe ad 
eet and t e beauty finger’s: voice, ftruck: the 
whole affemb bly. hey inftantly cait their eyes on Philo- 
cemen, and, with the moft violent appl acclama- 
ae the Jfhmian games, the fame trials of {kill were ex~ 
hibited as at the other three facred games, and particularly 
thofe of poetry and mufic 
8 
of Alexander the Great, who had been in poffeffion of the - 
chief part of Greece. 
The time, fays, this author, for celebrating the Ifthmian. 
ames was now come. 
re ween two > teas, for the inhabitants of different provinces to 
affemble. we being at sorte aa anxious t6 know their own 
fate, and that of their co reece flocked thither, 
the dates part filently foreboding he wortft, and fome not 
fer to exprefs t ears At length the 
an took their places at the ; Bee and a her i 
a trumpet, in the ufual manner, advanced into the middle 
Cc r 
and people, and T. Quindtiu 
their general, os le Pil and is Mace ontans, 
declared the Corinthians, Phocwans, all the Locrians, the 
nefians, "Thelfalonians, Perrhebi, 
r 
{pe@ators could fearce credit what ye ea they re 
garded each other with str tant as if the ey had w oo 
out of a dream. Each, diffident his own ears, with > 
relpett to what particularly coacerid himfelf and his own’ 
countr ee what had been faid. The 
games 
greatel ft hurry and confufion no one had eyes or attention 
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