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You may also remark that each pair of feet consists of ten letters; and you may produce the same effect not in this way, but in a different one, so as to have many ways of putting one line; for instead you may read—

[Greek: metron phrason moi, tôn podôn metron labôn;]

or this way—

[Greek: labôn metron moi tôn podôn, metron phrasôn.]

[And you may take this line too—]

[Greek: ou boulomai gar tôn podôn metron labein,]

[and transpose it thus—]

[Greek: labein metron gar tôn podôn ou boulomai.]

82. But Pindar, with reference to the ode which was composed without a [Greek: s] in it, as the same Clearchus tells us, as if some griphus had been proposed to him to be expressed in a lyric ode,—as many were offended because they considered it impossible to abstain from the [Greek: s], and because they did not approve of the way in which the idea was executed, uttered this sentence—

Before long series of songs were heard, And the ill-sounding san from out men's mouths.

And we may make use of this observation in opposition to those who pronounce the sigma-less ode of Lasus of Hermione to be spurious, which is entitled The Centaurs. And the ode which was composed by Lasus to the Ceres in Hermione, has not a [Greek: s] in it, as Heraclides of Pontus says, in the third book of his treatise on Music, which begins—

I sing of Ceres and her daughter fair, The bride of Clymenus.

83. And there are great numbers of other griphi. Here is one—

In a conspicuous land I had my birth, The briny ocean girds my country round, My mother is the daughter fair of Number.

By the conspicuous land ([Greek: phanera]) he means Delos (as [Greek: dêlos] is synonymous with [Greek: phaneros]), and that is an island surrounded by the sea. And the mother meant is Latona, who is the daughter of Coius, and the Macedonians use [Greek: koios] as synonymous with [Greek: arithmos]. And the one on barley-water ([Greek: ptisanê])—

Mix the juice of peel'd barley, and then drink it.

And the name [Greek: ptisanê] is derived from the verbs [Greek: ptissô], to