 Délos (as they say) hath in the right hand a bow and in the left hand the goddesses of favour. Whereof one hath a harp, another a shalm, the third a pipe. Shalms were at the beginning made of cranes' legs, and after of great reeds.  Polydori Virgilii De Rerum Inventoribus - Page 35by Polydore Vergil, William Alexander Hammond - 1868 - 242 pagesFull view - About this book
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...his image in Delos (as they say) hath in the right hand a lxr.v anil in the left hand the goddesses of favour. Whereof one hath a harp, another a shalm,...beginning made of cranes' legs, and after of great reeds. Dardanus Trezenius used first to play and sing with them."—Lib. i. cap. 12. Guillaume de Marhault,... | |
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