(), a poet, and one of the earliest musicians of
Greece, was claimed by the Arcadians as a native of Tegea, but by the Boeotians as a native of
Thebes. His age is not quite certain; but he probably lived a little later than Terpander, or
he was his younger contemporary (about 620 B. C.). He excelled in the music of the flute,
which he is thought by some to have introduced into Greece from Asia. As might be expected
from the connexion between elegiac poetry and the flute music, he is reckoned among the
elegiac poets. Among the pieces of music which he composed was one called Elegos. To him are ascribed the invention of the Apothetos and de Mus. 3. p. 1132c., 5. p.
1133a., 8. p. 1134a. b., 17. p. 1136f.; Heracl. Pont. p. 140;