[26] Greek Literature, 51. The word is by some authorities derived from ῥάβδος a staff,—just as we have a stave in music. Rhapsodists would thus mean men of the stave; ῥάβδος also (according to Liddell and Scott, edited by Drisler) means grammatically a line or a verse and ῥαψῳδία would mean a division of a poem for recitation.
[27] Plato, Phædo.
[28] Ritschl. Philolog. Schriften, Bd. 1.
[29] Social Greece, 10.
[30] Social Greece, 14.
[31] Le Droit des Auteurs, 16.
[32] Rozoir, Dictionnaire de la Conversation, Art. “Plagiaire.”
[33] The Frogs, v. 939 et seq.
[34] Scholia ad Equites, v. 528 et 1291.
[35] Bayle, Dicty., Art. “Theopompus.”