[ 7+6 ] 
fition to another fpecies, whether according to genus 
or tenfion (24)-’’ 
« The third point will receive much fupport irom 
thefe two confiderations ; firft, That diapal'ons, va- 
rioully divided and varioufly bounded, alfo feem to 
form a more complicated theory, than can well be 
fuppofed to have prevailed in early times, when mufic 
had not yet loft its natural fimplicity ; and fecondly, 
That the compafs of the inftrument, in its odtachord 
ftate, would not admit of any variation, in refped to 
the bounding founds. But there is teftimony to this 
point alio : I fhall cite one pretty remarkable paflage, 
from Ariftides Quintilianus, which will be fufficient, 
as the proof of the next point neceflarily carries this 
along with it. Ariftides, who, in his explanations 
of the harmonic doctrines, follows the method of the 
Ariftoxenians, coming under the head of fyftems, to 
treat of the fpecies of diapafon, after explaining their 
fituation in the immutable fyftem, and affigning their 
denominations, immediately fubjoins : 
<c Hence it is plain, that if we make our nrft ngn 
the fame, though denominated in different cafes from 
E\c ft n xL ma** * 3r« Kiy'o/tfrov rim, yJatoAoP Mo tyurctt 
(24) 
i 'UL<L0P*V y-ict tZ nv oaov TO ,7V V V ' „ 
hiv\% imp*, ro M ctKo^or 
Kg# h iy'ihOV TO [Aa& k^ctAAUojiJ^TJ T if*, 
k«t- Mfufti 8 4* i Tj r- .£ h SV i 
TOU&' X.AT et rclVTMO, TO [l GicJfbTSiJeLI 01K& ( f, , 
_ I » » ' A, CVCU.A rrx UiAvf’ 0$tv ck.HJ'H fT «X. *\U*** 
TAcrtf, ap£ uf 
Si rim, ***>’ n otov <*.*?» ff * 
£ J uU»C T«< KCLTi TO lit Tt& » CufVTi^ 
ax. 
iif KtV&TAt 
uJh o 
oTctv cm 
f 
rt fo®, JaaJ uom r«f kata TO ogvr*&r » CafvTi^r av 
c4nrl'sr]tiv autw <ttoi£ tv avvriStf kai rapaS'uKO^vv 
— ' - p ffuvipnjAt to akqKkSov. /itjetCAipip o tv •& 
era to yiv®, ri octree f Tanv. Ftol. Harm. lib* »• R; ^ ^ 
'ffMot' 
HTOl kata 
