 Lyons argues that the melody in question was linked with Horace's Ode well before Guido d'Arezzo fitted Ut queant laxis to it.However, the melody is unlikely to be a survivor from classical times, although Ovid testifies to Horace's use of the lyre while performing his Odes.The German scholar, Ludwig Traube, once dubbed the tenth and eleventh centuries "The age of Horace" ("aetas Horatiana"), and placed it between the "aetas Vergiliana" of the eighth and ninth centuries, and the "aetas Ovidiana" of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a distinction supposed to reflect the dominant classical Latin influences of those times.