Capítulo 29
[29.1] Ecprepes, an Ephor, cut out with an adze two of the nine strings of Phrynis the musician, saying, Do not murder music.The story is repeated in Plutarch’s Life of Agis, chap. x. (799 F), and with variaions in Moralia, 84 A, 238 C (infra); Athenaeus 636 E; Boethius, De Musica, i. 1.