Note 266 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Μνήμοσυνῃ. This goddess is celebrated by Hesiod, in his Theogony, as the mother of the Muses:
D. G. vs. 915.
ἐκ ἧς αἱ Μοῦσαι χρυσάμπυκες ἐξεγένοντο ἐννέα, τῇσιν ἅδον θαλίαι, καὶ τέρψις ἀοιδῆς.
So Akenside, in The Pleasures of Imagination:
Book iii.
Ye beauteous offspring of Olympian Jove And Memory divine, Pierian maids.
That this mythology is judicious, has been remarked by Plutarch in his rules for the education of children; since nothing so much cherishes learning as memory. There is a statue of Mnemosyne in the Clementine Museum of Visconti, Vol. i.