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APPENDICES

I. ThE NINE MuSES

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N the fly-leaf of the first Minute-Book in our possession the following
memorandum appears:-

“Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polyhymnia, Caliope,
urania ~ The Muses ~ were daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne.

They presided over Music, Poetry, Dancing, and all the Liberal Arts. The Palm-
tree, the Laurel, and all the fountains of Pindus, Hellicon, Parnassus, &c., were
sacred to the Nine.

The Muses were also called Pierides, from having conquered the daughters of
Pierus, a king of Macedonia, who had challenged the sacred Nine to a trial in
music, but failing, were changed into magpies.”