[45]Müller, Gesch. v. 1, p. 399.
[46]Müller, Ges. v. 1, p. 394.
[47]At seven years old the study was usually commenced.
[48]See O. Müller, Gesch. v. 2, p. 44
[49]The lips of the tragic mask were usually half open.
[50]Gesch. d. Griech. Lit. p. 44
[51]Some Dithyrambic poets kept a band of flute-players to accompany their choruses.
[52]There was, and possibly is still, in some parts of Italy, a custom analogous to this, when the director of the orchestra marked time by rapping his baton regularly on his music stand instead of simply waving it.
[53]Thucydides also gives an unfavorable picture of Cleon. Grote in his History of Greece, defends Cleon’s character.
[54]Müller, p. 207, v. 2.