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BACCHIUS

Volume 2 · 95 words · 1778 Edition

a follower of Aristothenes, supposed by Fabricius to have been tutor to the emperor Marcus Antoninus, and consequently to have lived about A.D. 140. He wrote in Greek a very short introduction to music in dialogue, which, with a Latin translation thereof, Meibomius has published. It seems it was first published in the original by Merfennus, in his Commentary on the first six chapters of Genesis; and that afterwards he published a translation of it in French, which Meibomius, in the preface to his edition of the ancient musical authors, censures as being grossly erroneous.