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Headword: *cunauli/a
Adler number: xi,116
Translated headword: pipe-concert
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A kind of aulos-playing in harmony, a singing to the aulos performed by two.
Greek Original:
*cunauli/a: au)/lhsi/s tis su/mfwnos, u(po\ du/o perainome/nh au)lw|di/a.
Notes:
cf. xi 117, sigma 1449.
Same entry in Photius (xi50 Theodoridis); similarly in Hesychius (xi125) etc. Mentioned in Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and elsewhere.
For auloi see generally M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 81-109, inc. 103-4 on the standard practice of playing them in pairs (which is not what the Suda is talking about here).
Keywords: comedy; definition; meter and music; tragedy
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica ✝ on 19 February 2000@10:16:15.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (rearranged) on 22 January 2002@01:14:04.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 22 January 2002@03:26:47.
Catharine Roth (augmented note, cosmetics, status) on 24 March 2008@22:08:37.
David Whitehead (tweaked note; more keywords) on 19 June 2013@06:29:24.

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