A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

SYRINX and SYRINGA,

were Pipes or Reeds of a different Length, joined together, wherein they blew, as Tinkers and Boors do now-a-days, who are the Inheritors of the wretched Musick of the Satyrs. Pan was the Inventor of this Instrument, who running like a hair-brained Fellow after the Nymph Syringa, whom he was desperately in Love with, could catch nothing but Reeds, into which she was transformed: so comfort himself for his Loss, he made Muical Instruments of those Reeds join'd together, which bore the Name of his Nymph, and were in Request with Shepherds: Ovid gives the Story of it in these Verses.

Panaque, cum prensam sibi jam Syringe putaret, Corpora pro Nymphae calamos tenuisse palustres: Dumque ibi suspir at, motos in arundine ventos Effecisse sonum tenuem, similemque querenti; Arte nova vocisque Deum dulcedine captum, Hoc mihi concilium tecum dixisse manebit: Atque it a disparthus calamis compagine cerae Inter se junctis nomen tenuisse puellae.