Note 265 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Ἀπόλλωνι Μουσηγέτῃ. When the gods attended the nuptials of Peleus and Thetis on Mount Pelion, Apollo led “the tuneful choir” in the character of Musagetes:
Coluthi Rapt. Helen. vs. 23.
ἐκ δὲ μελισσήεντος ἀπεσσυμένων Ἑλικῶνος Μουσάων λιγύφωνον ἄγων χορὸν ἦλθεν Ἀπόλλων.
Representations of Apollo in the character of Musagetes or Lyristes, from the Justinian gallery, are given by Père Montfaucon in the first volume of his Antiquities; by Spence, in his Polymetis, Pl. xiii. f. i. ii.; and by Visconti, in the Clementine Museum, Vol. i.
Ausonii Musarum Inventa. Idyll. xx.
Mentis Apollineæ vis has movet undique Musas. In medio residens amplectitur omnia Phœbus.
Artemidori Oneirocrit. L. ii. c. 35.
Ἀπόλλων μουσικοῖς ἀγαθὸς, says the Ephesian, λόγων γὰρ εὑρετὴς ὁ θεὸς καὶ μουσικῆς πάσης. In which character the Roman poets of the Augustan age have decked him out to the life. See Ovid’s
Metam. L. xi. 165.
Ille caput flavum lauro Parnasside vinctus— Verrit humum Tyrio saturatâ murice pallâ, &c.