the art of music, music; acc. to the notions of the ancients, also every higher kind of artistic or scientific culture or pursuit : musicam Damone aut Aristoxeno tractante? etc., Cic.de Or. 3, 33, 132: socci et cothurni, i. e. comic and dramatic poetry ,Aus.Ep. 10, 43: musice antiquis temporibus tantum venerationis habuit, ut, Quint. 1, 10, 9.