Now the national dances are the following:—the Lace- dæmonian, the Trœzenian, the
 Epizephyrian, the Cretan, the Ionian, the Mantinean, which Aristoxenus considers
 as the best of all, on account of its movement of the hands. And dancing was
 considered so creditable an employment, and one requiring so much talent, that
 Pindar calls Apollo a dancer:— Prince of dancers, prince of grace, Hail, Phœbus of the silver quiver. And Homer too, or one of the Homeridæ, in one of the hymns to Apollo,
 says— How deftly Phœbus strikes the golden lyre, While strength and grace each moving limb inspire! and Eumelus, or Arctinus, the Corinthian, somewhere or other introduces
 Jupiter himself as dancing, saying— And gracefully amid the dancing throng, The sire of gods and mortals moved along. But Theophrastus says that Andron of Catana, a flute-player, was the
 first person who invented motions of the body keeping time to music, while he
 played on the flute to the dancers; from whom dancing among the ancients was
 called Sicelizing. And that he was followed by Cleophantus of Thebes. Among the
 dancers of reputation there was Bulbus, mentioned by Cratinus and Callias; and
 Zeno the Cretan, who was in high favour with Artaxerxes, mentioned by Ctesias.
 Alexander also, in his letter to Philoxenus, mentions Theodorus and
 Chrysippus.