Note 36 — § 31. Scales of the Lyre and Cithara.

The two passages enumerate the scales in a slightly different manner. In i. 16 they are arranged in view of the genus or colour into—

Pure Middle Soft Diatonic, viz.— sterea, of the lyre. tritai } of the cithara. hypertropa }

Mixture of Chromatic, viz.— malaka, of the lyre. tropika, of the cithara.

Mixture of Soft Diatonic, viz.— parypatai, of the cithara.

Mixture of diatonon syntonon, viz.— lydia } of the cithara. iastia }

It is added, however, that in their use of this last 'mixture' musicians are in the habit of tuning the cithara in the Pythagorean manner, with two Major tones and a leimma (called diatonon ditoniaion).

In the second passage (ii. 16) the scales of the lyre are given first, then those of the cithara with the key of each. The order is the same, except that parypatai comes before tropika (now called tropoi), and lydia is placed last. The words ta de lydia hoi tou toniaiou diatonou [sc. arithmoi periechousi tou dôriou cannot be correct, not merely because they contradict the statement of the earlier passage that lydia denoted a mixture with diatonon syntonon (or in practice diatonon ditoniaion), but also because the scales that do not admit mixture are placed first in the list in both passages. Hence we should doubtless read ta de lydia hoi [tou migmatos] tou [di]toniaiou diatonou tou Dôriou.]