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Headword:
Nomoi
kitharôidikoi
Adler number: nu,473
Translated headword: citharoedic laws, citharoedic nomoi
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Apollo, they say, with a lyre taught to men laws to live by, at the same time soothing their initial brutality with the song[1] and making his command intelligible with the sweetness of the rhythm; and these were called citharoedic 'laws'. Hence in a solemn way, just as it seems to
Aristotle also, the musical modes by which we sing are called
nomoi.[2]
Nomoi kitharôidikoi: Apollôn, phasi, meta luras katedeixe tois anthrôpois nomous, kath' hous zêsontai, praünôn te hama tôi melei to kat' archas en autois thêriôdes kai euprositon têi tou rhuthmou hêdutêti poiôn to parangellomenon: kai eklêthêsan ekeina nomoi kitharôidikoi. ekeithen de semnologikôs, hôs kai Aristotelei dokei, nomoi kalountai hoi mousikoi tropoi, kath' hous aidomen.
Notes:
Similarly in the
Etymologicum Magnum (607.1); cf.
Photius nu253 Theodoridis (and
nu 478). See also
Plato,
Laws 700A-D (web address 1); ps.-
Plutarch,
De musica 1131E-1133D;
Pollux 4.66.
[1] For the soothing power of Apollo’s music, cf.
Pindar,
Pythian 1.5-25 (web address 2).
[2] For another explanation cf. the Aristotelian
Problemata 919b38-920a2.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: aetiology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; meter and music; mythology; philosophy; poetry; religion
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 14 May 2007@18:58:38.
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