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A marvellous state of affairs!Athenian
Say rather, worthy in the highest degree of a statesman and a legislator. Still, you would find in Egypt other things that are bad. This, however, is a true and noteworthy fact, that as regards music it has proved possible for the tunes which possess a natural correctness to be enacted by law and permanently consecrated. To effect this would be the task of a god or a godlike man,—even as in Egypt they say that the tunes preserved throughout
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, PRONOUNS
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- LSJ, ἔννοια
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