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lib . xi ; Julius Scaliger Poeticis , lib . i ., xxiii ., & c , & c . Thus Pindar tells us Aristomenes was crowned with the " Poia Pamasias , " or laurel of Mount Parnassus . Also it has been stated ( Natalis Comes , Mythol ., lib . v . cap . ii ) that

Chrysothemis , the Cretan , was the first who gained a prize by singing ; the next was won by Philamon , and after him , his son Thamyris obtained the victory . Orpheus , too , had raised himself to honours nearly equal to the gods' through his

instructions in all the mysteries of religion , and the customs of Divine worship . Musajus took Orpheus for his model , aud deemed it to be inconsistent with the high and reuowned estimations they bore to seek the position of contenders . Of

Elentherus it is reported that the richness of his voice solely obtained him the mastery , what he sung having been composed by another ; yet still all the candidates were obliged to be players upon the harp . It was the requirement of this instrumental proficiency that subjected even Hesiod to repulsion .

Likewise in the Pythian games there was a kind of operatic entertainment , or five parts song , called NO / MS , nomos , during which a skilfully posturising dancing performance was produced . It represented the encounter between Apollo and Python .

Part the first represented the young god preparing himself for the enegagement . Part the second , his undaunted approach and solemn reproving the evil enemy . Part the third , the commencement of the fight , and the expressings of passion ,

sullen hate , and fiery rage ; meanwhile the trumpets sounded their war notes and the points of war . Part the fourth , the celebration of the victory , the returning thanks , and the offer of sacrifices to the gods . Part the fifth portrayed the

godly hero elated with his triumph , and animated with other feelings , increased by the high sounding paian , dancing gloriously in front of his vanquished and slain , and just erewhile vaunting and mighty antagonist . This last part of the

descriptive verses and scene cannot but help to bring into some juxtaposition the combat of David with Goliath ; and again , when he , being then the King of Judah , brought up the Ark of the Lord , and in the excessive joy of his heart , forebore not the

grateful impulse of leaping and dancing before it . Cicero asserts , with respect to the Olympic festivals , that a victory in the games amounted to scarcely less honour than a triumph at Koine . Happy as well as fortunate was the conqueror

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thought , although , but a winner in a single contest ; whereas the person who had achieved repeated successes was imagined to have attained to the utmost altitude of human felicity . Thismore , too , we are told ( Plut . Lucullo ) when one

became the conqueror in all the games they styled him the wonderful of victories—of a condition more elevated than mortal ; they bestowed honours on the city in which he was born , and on the place of his education . Happy and favoured , so

has it been written , were his relations ; felicitous and reverenced were his parents . Every Athenian who had obtained a prize in the Isthmian celebrations was , by the Solonian laws , allowed a hundred drachms out of the public

treasury ; but at the Olympian festivals five hundred drachms were awarded to each conqueror in the games . According to all accounts , the glory of the all-victorious was superlative , beyond price , not to be estimated , and immortal . Crowned with '

the emblems of victories , they were conveyed to their homes in resplendent cars , drawn by four highly-reared steeds , and at times they had statues erected in remembrance of their prowess . In fact , all those exercises conducive to the training and adapting of men for war were most especially encouraged by the State .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

EXCEJVTTS TOUCHING BRITISH MASONEY . If all brothers , readers of our ancient chronicles , annals , records , rolls , & c , would make excerpts of " what may be found in them touching British Masonry , and would send such excerpts to Bro . Hyde Clarkeor some other brother willing to take charge

, of them , a collection might iu this way speedily be formed , wliieb , placed in the hands of the individual whom Craft zeal will , it is hoped , some day prompt to write our genuine history , cannot fail , if judiciously used , greatly to abridge his labour . —CHAKLES PUE - TON COOPEE .

E . H . S . What is the K . H . S . described in the Masonic Mirror ! If K . stands for Knight , what is H . S . ?—E . A . THE TERM " GEAND IODGE . "

" Artium Raccalaureus" is wrong in both his points . First , Bro . Hughan has not omitted to state his reasons for telling the Masonic student that he will find " Grand Lodge " a term of the last century . ( See Freemasons' Magazine , vol . 17 , page 421—next , " A Past Provincial Grand Master for Kent " has never expressed an opinion upon the matter . —C . P . COOPEE .