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La Musicque, est en la cure des Dieux.
Eunome mist au Delphic oratoire
Une Cigale, enseigne de victoire.
Car en jouant du Luc, contre Ariston,
Les doitz touchoient: les chordes faisoient ton.
Quand l’une estant rompue, & mal fournie
Ja commençoit à gaster l’harmonie.
Adoncq survint chantant une Cigale,
Qui le de fault [=default]
remplit par voix egale.
Et qui au son attraicte, vint des bois,
Pour secourir Eunome de sa voix:
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Parquoy luy feit tel honneur souverain,
Que la poser sur ung lac, en erain.[1]
Au temple Delphic d’Apollon, estoit dedié
le simulachre d’ung luc taillé en erain, & une
Cigale dessus, suppliant le default d’une
chor
de rompue: par son strident, en memoire de
la victoire de Eunome, contre Ariston au jeu
du luc: auquel la Cigale survenant d’adventu
re avec son chant: qui se trouva d’accord,
au lieu d’une chorde rompue, donna victoire,
non tant estimée fortunale, que fatale par
la providence des Dieux, qui aiment, & hont
cure de la Musicque.
1. This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 6.54. See Strabo, Geography 6.1.9 for the story of Eunomus and the statue he set up at his home town of Locri commemorating this incident in the song contest at the Pythian Games (celebrated near Delphi, in honour of Apollo, Artemis and their mother Leto); also Erasmus, Adagia 414, Acanthia Cicada.
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