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Ἁρμον-ικός , ή, όν,
A.skilled in music, Pl.Phdr. 268d; “ἁ. οὐ μάγειρος” musician, Damox.2.49 codd.
II. musical: “τὰ -κά” theory of music, Pl.Phdr.268e, Arist.Metaph.1077a5; ἡ ἐν τοῖς μαθήμασιν -κή (sc. ἐπιστήμη) mathematical theory of music, ib.997b21; ἁ. πραγματεία a treatise thereon, Plu.2.1142f; ἁρμονικὰ στοιχεῖα, title of work by Aristoxenus; ἁρμονικοί, οἱ, students of “-κή, οἱ κατὰ τοὺς ἀριθμοὺς ἁ.” Arist.Top.107a16; with play on (b), Aristox. Harm.p.I M.
b. of or in the enharmonic scale, “νόμος” Plu.2.1133e.
c. ἁ. κίνησις, of the pulse, in harmony with physical state, Gal.19.376.
III. Arith., harmonic, “μέσα” Archyt.2; “ἁ. ἀναλογία” Ph.1.27, Nicom.Ar.2.22, Theo Sm.p.114H.; “μεσότης” Arist.Fr.47; “λόγοι” Ph.1.22 (Sup.); “λόγοι κατ᾽ ἀριθμὼς ἁ. συγκεκραμένοι” Ti.Locr. 96a, cf. Arist.de An.406b29.
IV. ἁ. γυμνάσιον training by rule of thumb, Philostr.Gym.53.
V. metaph., capable of harmonizing, “τακτικοὶ καὶ ἁ.” Plu.2.618c; of God, ib.946f.
VI. Adv. -κῶς ib.1138e, Iamb.Comm.Math.32.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Plato, Phaedrus, 268d
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