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xxvii. (p. <)2,seq., Nauck).
(§ 3) Archytas is treated of by Diog. Laert., viii. 4. Aristoxenus wrote a biography of him (according to Athenffius, xi. 545 A) ; Aristotle composed three books on his philosophy, and in addition compiled extracts from his writings (Diog. Laert., v. 25). With his flute-playing (Athena3us, iv. 184 E) are connected his investigations into the theory NOTES AND ADDITIONS. 305 of music (cf. von Jan in Pauly-Wissowa's Real-Encydopadie, ii. i, 6oOj seq^. On his Idndness to children and slaves, cf. ^lian, Varia Historia, xii. 15, and Athenasus, xii. 519 B, with which the statement that ^le invented children's rattles (Aristotle, Pol., 6, 1340 b, 26) excellently agrees.
Page 260 (Top). " Archytas at the head of a confederation of cities :" according to Suidas, sub voc. 'Apxiras. On his end, cf. Horace, Odes, i. 28, with Kiessling's comments. (Par. 2) He is termed the founder of mechanics by Diog. Laert., loc. cit. As to the invention of that flying dove (concerning which, besides Favorinus, quoted 'verbatim by Aulus Gellius, Noct.
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