Δώριος
Dorian
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Translation
[A kind of] musical pipe-playing, just like Lydian and Phrygian.1
"He chose a moderate and frugal diet which neither did him harm through its poverty nor made him soft through its richness -- but one which was intermediate and harmonious, truly befitting the Dorian mode of his fortune."2
And [there is] a proverb: "from a Dorian to a Phrygian."3 "I shall not present well-rounded phrases [as proems and preludes ...] but setting forth the plain expressions of my thoughts [I will compete on the basis of facts], provided only that I change the tone of my language from disputation to vehemence, [or as] they say, from a Dorian to a Phrygian [mode].4
"He chose a moderate and frugal diet which neither did him harm through its poverty nor made him soft through its richness -- but one which was intermediate and harmonious, truly befitting the Dorian mode of his fortune."2
And [there is] a proverb: "from a Dorian to a Phrygian."3 "I shall not present well-rounded phrases [as proems and preludes ...] but setting forth the plain expressions of my thoughts [I will compete on the basis of facts], provided only that I change the tone of my language from disputation to vehemence, [or as] they say, from a Dorian to a Phrygian [mode].4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Δώριος· αὔλησις μουσική, ὥσπερ καὶ Λύδιος καὶ Φρύγιος. τὴν δὲ τροφὴν ἐκληρώσατο μετρίαν τινὰ καὶ ἄθρυπτον, οὔτε κακουργοῦσαν διὰ πενίαν οὔτε διὰ πλοῦτον βλακεύουσαν, ἀλλὰ μέσην καὶ μουσικήν, τὸν Δώριον τρόπον τῆς τύχης ἀληθῶς ἡρμοσμένην. καὶ παροιμία· Ἀπὸ Δωρίου ἐπὶ Φρύγιον. οὐ φανοῦμαι στρογγύλων λογάρια, αὐτὰς δὲ τὰς φάσεις τῶν νοημάτων εἰς μέσον τιθέμενος, μόνον εἰ τῆς γλώττης τὸν τόνον ἀπὸ τῆς διαλέξεως εἰς ἐπιστροφὴν μεθαρμόσαιμι, ἀπὸ Δωρίου φασὶν ἐπὶ Φρύγιον.
Betacode
*dw/rios: au)/lhsis mousikh/, w(/sper kai\ *lu/dios kai\ *fru/gios. th\n de\ trofh\n e)klhrw/sato metri/an tina\ kai\ a)/qrupton, ou)/te kakourgou=san dia\ peni/an ou)/te dia\ plou=ton blakeu/ousan, a)lla\ me/shn kai\ mousikh/n, to\n *dw/rion tro/pon th=s tu/xhs a)lhqw=s h(rmosme/nhn. kai\ paroimi/a: *)apo\ *dwri/ou e)pi\ *fru/gion. ou) fanou=mai stroggu/lwn loga/ria, au)ta\s de\ ta\s fa/seis tw=n nohma/twn ei)s me/son tiqe/menos, mo/non ei) th=s glw/tths to\n to/non a)po\ th=s diale/cews ei)s e)pistrofh\n meqarmo/saimi, a)po\ *dwri/ou fasi\n e)pi\ *fru/gion.
Notes (4)
- See also under delta 1462.↩
- 1cf. scholion on Aristophanes, Knights 989 (web address 1); see also lambda 786 and phi 753. ↩
- 2Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 98 Zintzen (50 Asmus), now 42D Athanassiadi; cf. alpha 764. Athanassiadi adopts Augusto Guida's emendation
yuxh=s ("of the soul") instead of the manuscripts'tu/xhs . ↩- 3Apostolius 3.61. ↩
- 4From Synesius, Praise of Baldness 4, PG 66.1173c; cf. lambda 638.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- α764Ἄθρυπτοςunbroken[Meaning] manly, not slacking, nor softening, nor becoming flaccid. Damascius [writes]: "the life-style they allotted themselves was measured and unbroken, neither wrong-doing on account of poverty nor slacking on…
- δ1462ΔώριοςDorios, DoriusA proper name. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] Dorian economy: "Polemon had assumed the simplicity and squalor of Xenocrates and his gravity, as if a kind of Dorian economy." Also [sc. attested is the phrase] Dorian…
- δ1463ΔωρίςDoris[Genitive] *dwri/dos, [vocative] w)= *dwri/.
- δ1465ΔωριστίDorian-fashion, Dorian-modeThat is, in bribe-fashion. Aristophanes [writes]: "[they say that he was apt] to fit only the Dorian-mode harmony as regards the lyre, and not be willing to accept any other."
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