(The). That of Terpander and Olympus had only three strings;
the Scythian lyre had five; that of Simonides had eight; and that of
Timotheus (3 syl.) had twelve. It was played either with the fingers or
with a plectrum. The lyre is called by poets a “shell,” because the
cords of the lyre used by Orpheus (2 syl.), Amphion, and Apollo, were
stretched on the shell of a tortoise. Hercules used boxwood instead.
Amphion built Thebes with the music of his lyre, for the very stones
moved of their own accord into walls and houses.
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