Note 56 — CONCERNING MUSIC.51 ONESICRATES, SOTERICHUS, LYSIAS.
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This seems to be the nome referred to by Pindar, Pyth. XII. 12, as the invention of Pallas Athena. The Scholia on the passage of Pindar tell us that the goddess represented it in the lamentation of the two surviving Gorgons for their sister Medusa slain by Perseus, and the hissing of the snakes which surrounded their heads,—whence the name πολυκέφαλος, or many-headed. (G.)