Worsley, Richard [Sammler] [Editor]: Museum Worsleyanum: or, a collection of antique basso-relievos, bustos, statues, and gems ; with views of places in the Levant ; taken on the spot in the years MDCCLXXXV. VI. and VII. (Band 2) (London, 1824)

sacred eompositions of the great Panathenea; and we learn from Horace,26 that young
persons were always chosen to recite the sacred hymns, on account of the melody of
their voice, and the delicacy and innocency of their manners; the people of Athens
were so accustomed to their harmony, that they immediately approached the temples.
The same remark is made by Spanheim, in his Commentaries on Callimachus.

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