entions Butteux, applied the term "Dancing" to all
measured movements, even to military marching. They danced anywhere and
everywhere; and we are told that both their limbs and bodies spoke.

Cybele was supposed by the Greeks to have taught dancing on Mount Ida to
the Corybantes, and they also say that it was in their country that
Apollo revealed the Terpsichorean Art, and that of Music and Poetry.

After all this, it is not very surprising that they make claim for the
innovation of Pantomime. This, of course, we know is different, as we
have seen that, from time immemorial Pantomimic scenes and dances have
been represented. Cassiodorus attributes its institution to Philistion;
Athenaens assigns it to Rhodamanthus, or to Palamedes.

With the Greeks, Pantomimes became very popular, and they were
distinguished by various names. Before they began their Tragedies the
Greeks used to give a Pantomimic display. The principal Pantomimists
were known as _Ethologues_, meaning painters of manners. One of the most
celebrated of these Mimes was Sophron of Syracuse. In depicting the
conduct of man so faithfully, the Pantomimes of the Greek Mimes served
to teach and inculcate useful moral lessons. The moral philosophy of the
Mime, Sophron, was so pure that Plato kept a book of his poems under his
pillow when on his death-bed. Besides these Moralities, as they were
termed, there were, in addition, light pieces of a farcical kind, in the
portrayal of which the Mimes were equally as successful as in the other
species.

The dancing of the Greeks was an actual language, in which all
sentiments and passages were interpreted. By the aid of the
Terpsichorean Art, Professor Desrat says, "That the Greeks, a nation of
heroes, trained themselves in the art of hand-to-hand combat."

"Dancing," says another writer, "and imitative acting in the lower
stages of civilization are identical, and in the sacred dances of
ancient Greece we may trace the whole Dramatic Art of the modern world.
The Spartans practised dancing as a gymnastic exercise, and made it
compulsory upon all children from the age of five."

And we are also told that religious processions went with song and dance
(and, of course, Pantomime), to the Egyptian temples; the Cretan chorus
sang hymns to the Greek gods; David danced in procession before the Ark
of the Covenant; and that we are to "Praise the Lord with the sound of
the trumpet, praise Him with the psaltery and the harp; pr