Moschus [was] a bad kithara-singer[1] who sang many things without breath. The so-called Boeotian [mode] was invented by
Terpander,[2] just like the Phrygian.[3]
*mo/sxos a)/|dwn *boiw/tion: *mo/sxos fau=los kiqarw|do\s polla\ a)pneusti\ a)/|dwn. to\ de\ *boiw/tion ou(/tw kalou/menon eu(=re *te/rpandros, w(/sper kai\ o( *fru/gios.
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 13-14, where the following phrase (garbled by the present lemma) occurs: "I was pleased when, after Moschos, Dexitheos came in singing in the Boiotian mode".
[1] For the kithara see
kappa 1590 (and cf.
kappa 1591).
[2]
tau 354.
[3] The word for 'Phrygian' here is in the masculine singular, implying that a Phrygian man also invented the Boeotian mode just like
Terpander. This is probably a mistake, however; the
scholia have the neuter form of the adjective (
to\ *fru/gion), making the reference not to a Phrygian person but the Phrygian mode, also said to be invented by
Terpander.
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