Hyagnis fuit, ut fando accepimus, Marsyae tibicinis pater et magister; rudibus adhuc musicae saeculis solus ante alios catus canere, nondum quidem tam flexanimo sono nec tam pluriformi modo nec tam multiforatili tibia; quippe adhuc ars ista repertu novo commodum oriebatur.
Hyagnis, so tradition tells us, was the father and teacher of the piper Marsyas. In what were still the early ages of music, he surpassed all others for his skill in playing, not yet indeed with such seductive notes or such varied modes or with so many stops to his pipe, for this newly invented art was as yet just coming into being.
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