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instrumental note, a low  . If this is right, it should perhaps sound with the first note of the following bar. |
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(. . . companions . . . suppliant [fem.] . . . at (your? gods' statues'?) knees shaded (with boughs as carried by suppliants). . .) |
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The rhythm is dochmiac or perhaps paeonic (in that case 5/8,  . There is little agreement of melody and accent, which points to a strophic composition, perhaps a tragic chorus. The lines refer to an emotional appeal by a suppliant or suppliants. |
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In the surviving bars a appears as the focal note, and the music does not go further from it than a minor third above or a major third below. It is based on the diatonic series f g a  (soft diatonic in the upper tetrachord, a  (d'), cf. p. 256 n. 8), but there are some chromatic glides in descending motion; see p. 196. The notation-key is Phrygian. |
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11 Hymn To Asclepius, SEG 30.390
(Original a Semitone Higher) |
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(. . . let us sing of Asclepius, (who protects) men (from dire diseases together with the lord Paian,) Apollo of the famous bow' (etc.)) |
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Brief as it is, this fragment is of high importance as evidence of the (or at any rate of a) manner in which hexameter texts were set to |
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