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She sat there with the zithern, letting her fingers glide gently over the strings. On his entering, she drew back hastily; but he cried to her brightly: "Do not disturb yourself. I love that instrument. I am having a statue erected to Mesomedes, the great zithern-player you perhaps know his songs. This evening, when the feast and the press of work are over, I will hear how you play.
She sat there with the zithern, letting her fingers glide gently over the strings. On his entering, she drew back hastily; but he cried to her brightly: "Do not disturb yourself. I love that instrument. I am having a statue erected to Mesomedes, the great zithern-player you perhaps know his songs. This evening, when the feast and the press of work are over, I will hear how you play.
¶He made a search for the tomb of Sulla and repaired it, and reared a cenotaph to Mesomedes, who had written a compilation of citharoedic modes. Still, in cases of necessity and urgent campaigns, he was simple and frugal, toiling with painstaking care in menial offices as much as the rest.
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