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jipolh' md Vulcan talking after his jaoofe way of Mercnry to 
this purpofe* 
Att. ')^Xo!>v'av Try v^K^v ivpoov^ Cpyxvov cltt xv^ 
'ThS mjyeTryi^aroj 7ni;y(a5 yip BVcipfj,o(7v.i^ C^O^*" 
^eis^ '^i^fni IvreivdjjjcVQi lirfoL ^p^s^ [MAoS'ei Trd- 
Which rfiight be better tranflatedthus toexprefsthe Au- 
ithors fence, than as the Latin Editor has turned it. 
:Ap. Tefltidinem moriuam alicubi offendens Infirumentum ex 
ea concinnavit 3 Bracbia enim adaptans Jffgnm oppofmt, 
deinde Clavos infgens^ €^ H£mijfh£rium rtpandnm in 
fra fuhjicitns^ fiptem Cor das extendebat^ atqx^ modnlaba- 
inr quiddam valde fonornm 0 Vulcane ^ ad MuficieMe-' 
iodiam compo^tum. 
i thought it not amifs to fet down Lncians words at length, 
fiot only becaufe they are clear and full in the point, as to 
what the Mufical Tejlndo tht Ancients was firft made of, 
but becaufe they accurately defcribe and enumerate all its 
pares giving each its peculiar name : So that they as wefl 
ierve to explain the following Figure, as manifeftly (hew 
^twas really taken from a genuine piece of Antiquity. 
I borrowed the firft of the following Figures from that 
excellent Treatife of the Harmonicks of the learned Father 
Marinus Merfennus ( //i. i* de Inftrumentis pag. 7. ) and 
have added it as a furplufage if your Lordfliip ftioul4 ftill 
require a further and ftronger proof of what I here advance, 
for this being taktn from the things themfelves, that will 
not lie and^ cannot deceive, as Words and the dubious 
fence of old Authors may, 1 thoughr it might carry with it 
a greater evidence than what I have yet faicL 
