Note 1778 — Chapter VI · PASTORAL LIFE.

Travellers find among the modern shepherds of the East much the same tastes and habits. “The hills,” observed Dr. Chandler, speaking of Lydia, “were enlivened by flocks of sheep and goats, and resounded with the rude music of the lyre and of the pipe; the former a stringed instrument resembling a guitar, and held much in the same manner, but usually played on with a bow.” Chandler, i. p. 85. Cf. Theocrit. Eidyll. i. 7. viii. 9.