C 2 7° ] 
in Tarabolis $ ut videntes non videant , et audientes 
non intelligent . By the Choice of the Words, the 
Author feems to allude to his having performed fome- 
thing not commonly underftood. 
I fhall here give you an Octave only of the amend- 
ing and defeending Scales of the diatonic Genus of 
the Ancients, with the Names for their feveral Sounds, 
as alfo the correfponding modern Letters. 
Afcending. Defeending. 
A 
Proslambanomenos 
g 
f 
B 1 
Hypate Hypaton 
1 
a4 3 
c 
Parhypate Hypaton 
2 T6 
e 
9 
T> 
Lychanos Hypaton 
1 
d 
9 
E T 
Hypate Mefon 
I 
c 
it 6 
_ 2 4 3 
a4 3 
2/6 
F 
Parhypate Mefon 
b 
9 
G T 
Lychanos Mefon 
i 
a 
1 
a 
Mefe 
f 
G 
Where you fee the fame Greek Names ferve for* 
the Sounds in the afcending and defeending Scales. 
In the Octave here given, four Sounds, viz- the 
f Proslambanomenos , Hypate Hypaton y Hypate Mefon* 
and Mefe y were called Stabiles , from their remain- 
ing fixed throughout all the Genera and Species . 
The other four Sounds being the Parhypate Hypa* 
ton , Lychanos Hypaton y Parhypate Mejon, and the 
Lychanos 
