Book 13
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AntissaTo the N. E. of Sigri. is next to Sigrium. It is a city with a harbour. Then follows Methymna, of which place Arion was a native, who, as Herodotus relates the story, after having been thrown into the sea by pirates, escaped safe to Taenarum on the back of a dolphin. He played on the cithara and sang to it. Terpander, who practised the same kind of music, was a native of this island. He was the first person that used the lyre with seven instead of four strings, as is mentioned in the verses attributed to him: we have relinquished the song adapted to four strings, and shall cause new hymns to resound on a seven-stringed cithara.
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The historian Hellanicus, and Callias, who has commented on Sappho and Alcaeus, were Lesbians.
