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4 But I fear that I shall be thought to be rounding out my discourse with instances which are altogether seductive and exotic, if I recount in full how harps and lyres, pipes and flutes, and all the other harmonious and consonant instruments which musical art has devised, void of soul though they be, accord in songs of both joy and grief, in stately measures and dissolute tunes, with human experiences, reproducing the judgements, the experiences, and the morals of those who use them. And yet they say that even ZenoVon Arnim, Stoic. Vet. Frag., i. p. 67; Cf. also Moralia, 1029 e. on his way to the theatre when Amoebeus Cf.Life of Aratus, xvii. (1034 e); Athenaeus, xiv. 623 d; Aelian, Varia Historia, iii. 30. was singing to the lyre, remarked to his pupils, Come, let us observe what harmony and music gut and sinew, wood and bone, send forth when they partake of reason, proportion, and order.