Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Marcus Porcius

In the time of the consul Marcus Porcius, a great musician came from Greece to Rome, who was very skilled at playing and very smooth in singing, and as he added a new string to the instrument with which he played, which the other instruments of Rome did not have, the instrument was publicly burned and the master banished.

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