And had joy thereof and gone on his way the wiser.
In another place he introduces in banquets the lyre, as among the suitors (O. xvii. 271):—
And the voice of the lyre is heard there which the gods made
to be mate of the feast.
And at the house of Alcinous the player on the lyre (O. vii. 266):—
Was composing a beautiful song.
And at marriages (I. xviii. 495):—
The pipes and lyres were sounding.
And in the works of the vintage (I. xvii. 569):—
A boy amid them, from a clear-ton'd pipe
Drew lovely music; well his liquid voice
The strings accompanied.
Besides in war (I. x. 13):—