A RHODIAN MUSICIAN’S REPLY TO APOLLONIUS.

When Apollonius was inquisitive of Canus, a Rhodian musician, “What

he could do with his instrument?” He told him, ‘that he could make a

melancholy man merry, and him that was merry, much merrier than he was

before: a lover more enamoured, and a religious man more devout, and

more attentive to the worship of the gods.