Plut. Mor., Concerning Music 24 — Concerning Music

Plut. Mor., Concerning Music 24 — Concerning Music, Plutarch; served verbatim

But, according to natural philosophy, both harmony and its parts consist of even, odd, and also even-odd. Altogether it is even, as consisting of four terms ; but its parts and proportions are even, odd, and even-odd. So nete is even, as consisting of twelve units ; paramese is odd, of nine; mese even, of eight; and hypate even-odd, of six (i.e., 2x3). Whence it comes to pass, that music — herself and her parts — being thus constituted as to excesses and proportion, the whole accords with the whole, and also with each one of the parts.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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Concerning Music, Plutarch — translated by John Philips (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
Apparatus shelf + pinned Perseus TEI — Plutarch's Morals (the Moralia), ed. William W. Goodwin, five volumes · 'Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin, Ph. D.', with an introduction by R. W. Emerson; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874 (five volumes; a minority of the TEI transcriptions were keyed from the same publisher's 1878 reprint)
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