text: " Greece it must be owned possessed musicians long anterior to Homer: Chiron the Centaur regarded by the ancients as one of the inventors of medicine botany and chirurgery who when eighty-eight years of age formed the constellations for the use of the Argonauts; Linus the preceptor of Hercules who added a string to the lyre and is said to be the inventor of rhythm and melody; Orpheus who also extended the scale of the lyre and was the inventor and propagator of many arts and doctrines among the Greeks; and Musaeus the priest of Ceres are all remembered as musicians as well as poets historians and philosophers; characters which in those days were all combined in the same individuals