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rhetoric. Being perfec t master of the practice of
music, he cultivated its more abstruse princi-
ples, and endeavoured to prove the sympa-
thetic influence of rythm, or cadence, on mo-
ral agents; and consequently its efficacy in
the education of youth, and the formation of
their manners. He was equally speculative
in political affairs, and asserted, that innova-
tions and changes in music had considerable
effect even upon the laws and constitutions of
empires. The invention of the " hypolidian
mode" is attributed to Damon. Having at-
tached himself to the government and princi-
ples of Pericles, he was banished by ostra-
cism, for being too favourable to tyranny,
about the year A.C. 430. It is probable, as
Plutarch supposes, that being versed in poli-
tical oeconomy, his lessons on the lyre were
given rather as a cloak for more important
subjects*, and that to him Pericles owed
much of the success which attended his sy-
stem of public conduct, for so long a period.

Ssivoryra,. Plut. in Fer.