one of the most ancient musical writers, was born at Tarentum, a city in Magna Graecia, now Calabria. He was the son of a musician, and it appears that he lived about the time of Alexander the Great and his first successors. His Harmonies History.

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nies in three books, all that are come down to us, together with Ptolemy's Harmonics, were first published by Gogavimus, but not very correctly, at Venice, 1562, in 4to, with a Latin version. John Meurisius next translated the three books of Arithmoxenus into Latin, from the MS. of Jof. Scaliger; but according to Meibomius, very negligently. With these he printed at Leyden, 1616, 4to, Nicomachus and Alpyius, two other Greek writers on music. After this, Meibomius collected these musical writers together; to which he added Euclid, Bacchius senior, Ariftides Quintilianus; and published the whole with a Latin version and notes, from the elegant press of Elzevir, Amt.

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