A.means of joining, fastening, “γόμφοις μιν . . καὶ ἁρμονίῃσιν ἄρηρεν” Od.5.248; of a ship, ὄφρ᾽ ἂν . . ἐν ἁρμονίῃσιν ἀρήρῃ ib.361.
2. joint, as between a ship's planks, τὰς ἁ. ἐν ὦν ἐπάκτωσαν τῇ βύβλῳ caulked the joints with papyrus, Hdt.2.96; “τῶν ἁρμονιῶν διαχασκουσῶν” Ar.Eq.533; also in masonry, “αἱ τῶν λίθων ἁ.” D.S.2.8, cf. Paus.8.8.8,9.33.7.
3. in Anatomy, suture, Hp. Off.25, Oss.12; union of two bones by mere apposition, Gal.2.737; also in pl., adjustments, “πόρων” Epicur.Fr.250.
4. framework, “ῥηγνὺς ἁρμονίαν . . λύρας” S.Fr.244; “βοός” Philostr.Im.1.16; esp. of the human frame, “ἁρμονίην ἀναλυέμεν ἀνθρώποιο” Ps.-Phoc.102; “νεύρων καὶ κώλων ἔκλυτος ἁ.” AP7.383 (Phil.); “τὰς ἁ. διαχαλᾷ τοῦ σώματος” Epicr.2.19.
b. of the mind, δύστροπος γυναικῶν ἁ. women's perverse temperament, E.Hipp.162 (lyr.).
c. framework of the universe, Corp.Herm. 1.14.
IV. in Music, stringing, “ἁ. τόξου καὶ λύρας” Heraclit.51, cf. Pl.Smp.187a: hence, method of stringing, musical scale, Philol.6, etc., Nicom.Harm.9; esp. octave, “ἐκ πασῶν ὀκτὼ οὐσῶν [φωνῶν] μίαν ἁ. συμφωνεῖν” Pl.R.617b; “ἑπτὰ χορδαὶ ἡ ἁ.” Arist. Metaph.1093a14, cf. Pr.919b21; of the planetary spheres, in Pythag. theory, Cael.290b13, Mu.399a12, etc.
3. special type of scale, mode, “ἁ. Λυδία” Pi.N.4.46; Αἰολίς or -ηΐς Pratin.Lyr.5, Lasus I, cf. Pl.R.398e, al., Arist.Pol.1276b8, 1341b35, etc.
b. esp. the enharmonic scale, Aristox.Harm.p.I M., Plu.2.1135a, al.
4. ἁρμονίαν λόγων λαβών a due arrangement of words, fit to be set to music, Pl.Tht.175e.
5. intonation or pitch of the voice, Arist.Rh. 1403b31.
6. metaph. of persons and things, harmony, concord, Pl.R.431e, etc.
V. personified, as a mythical figure, h.Ap.195, Hes.Th.937, etc.; Philos., like φιλότης, principle of Union, opp. Νεῖκος, Emp.122.2, cf. 27.3.
VI. Pythag. name for three, Theol. Ar.16.
VII. name of a remedy, Gal.13.61; of a plaster, Paul. Aeg.3.62.