Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin Marbles: With an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (London, 1837)

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" Quos circumfusos sic est adfata Sibylla;

Musaeura ante omnes: medium nam plurima turba
Hunc habet, atque hiimeris exstantem suspicit altis:
Dicite, felices animae, tuque, optime vates;
Quae regio Ancbisen, quis habet locus ?"

Pausanias mentions a hymn to Ceres which
was composed by Musaeus for the Lycomedae.
It is difficult to discriminate between this
Musaeus, whom some suppose to have lived,
not at the early date above assigned him, but
soon after the Trojan war, and one of the same
name who flourished as late as the fourth cen-
tury before the Christian asra, who was the au-
thor of the poem of "Hero and Leander," and
perhaps the prophet spoken of by Herodotus.
The expression of Virgil seems to imply that
Musaeus was the father of poetry, and at any
rate to place him in a supereminent point of
view. He was antecedent therefore, we may
infer, to Homer. The burial place of Musaeus,
at Athens, acquired, and still retains, the name
of " the Museum."

Tyrtaeus, a native of Attica, and son of Ar- Tyrtasus.
chimbrotus, flourished about the year A.C.
680. He held for some time a school at
Athens, and, as a poet, was chiefly remark-