.. thon es-che ma ... thê-ra kat-ek-ta.... syrigm' a-per..
M. Reinach thinks that the mode may be the so-called Hypo-lydian (the octave f—f). The materials are surely too scanty for any conclusion as to this.
The fragment D, the only remaining piece which M. Reinach has found it worth while to transcribe, is also written in the instrumental notation of the Lydian key. The metre is the glyconic. The fragment is as follows:—
ton man-to-sy[na klyton] ô-leth' hy-gra ch ... despoti Krê-siôn .. ai nae-tas Delphôn ...in ap-tais-tous Bak-chou [thiasous] ... te prospolois tan te dori[klytôn ar-chan au-xet' a-gê-ra-tô thal ...
This piece also is referred by M. Reinach to the Hypo-lydian mode. It may surely be objected that of three places in which we may fairly suppose that we have the end of a metrical division, viz. those which end with the words Delphôn, prospolois and agêratô, two present us with cadences on the Mesê (d), and one on the Hypatê (a). This seems to point strongly to the Minor Mode.