A celebrated cithara player of Methymna; in Lesbos
Latin word, found 29 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.87: … eros et caelestia acciperet? cur post Tarentum ad Archytam? cur ad reliquos Pythagoreos, Echecratem, Timaeum, Arionem, Locros, ut, cum Socratem expressisset, adiungeret Pythagoreorum disciplinam eaque, quae Socrates repudiabat, …
Vergil, Eclogues 8.56: Orpheus in silvis, inter delphinas Arion.
Martial, Epigrammata 8.50.15: Sic Methymnaeo gavisus Arione delphin