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μουσι^κή (sc. τέχνη), ἡ,
A.any art over which the Muses presided, esp. poetry sung to music, Pi.O.1.15, Hdt.6.129; “μουσικῆς ἀγών” Th.3.104, cf. IG12.84.16, etc.; “ποίησις ἡ κατὰ μουσικήν” Pl.Smp.196e, cf. 205c; τίς ἡ τέχνη, ἧς τὸ κιθαρίζειν καὶ τὸ ᾁδειν καὶ τὸ ἐμβαίνειν ὀρθῶς; Answ. “μουσικήν μοι δοκεῖς λέγειν” Id.Alc.1.108d.
2. = ἀγὼν μουσικῆς, IG 12(9).189.8 (Eretria, iv B. C.).
II. generally, art or letters, “μουσικῇ καὶ πάσῃ φιλοσοφίᾳ προσχρώμενος” Pl.Ti.88c, cf. Phd.61a, Prt.340a; μουσική, γράμματα, γυμναστική, as three branches of education, Id.R.403c, cf. X.Lac.2.1; with γραφική added, Arist.Pol.1337b24; “ἐν μουσικῇ καὶ γυμναστικῇ παιδεύειν” Pl.Cri.50d: metaph., “εὑρὼν ἀκριβῆ μ. ἐν ἀσπίδι” E.Supp.906.
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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    • Euripides, Suppliants, 906
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.129
    • Plato, Republic, 403c
    • Plato, Crito, 50d
    • Plato, Phaedo, 61a
    • Plato, Symposium, 196e
    • Plato, Symposium, 205c
    • Plato, Protagoras, 340a
    • Plato, Timaeus, 88c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.104
    • Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, 2.1
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