Plut. Mor., Concerning Music 27 — Concerning Music

Plut. Mor., Concerning Music 27 — Concerning Music, Plutarch; served verbatim

But among the more ancient Greeks, music in theatres was never known, for they employed their whole musical skill in the worship of the Gods and the education of youth ; at which time, there being no theatres erected, music was yet confined within the walls of their temples, as being that with which they worshipped the supreme Deity and sang the praises of virtuous men. And it is probable that the word OsaxQov, at a later period, and dEojQsrv {to behold) much earlier, were derived from O^og (God). But in our age is such another face of new inventions, that there is not the least remembrance or care of that use of music which related to education ; for all our musicians make it their business to court the theatre Muses, and study nothing but compositions for the stage.

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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