Translation Check - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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He knew that “All the Cardians had schooled their horses to dance at their drinking parties to the accompaniment of the pipes. Rising on their hind legs and, as it were, gesticulating with their front feet, they would dance, being thoroughly accustomed to the pipe melodies. Knowing this fact, Naris purchased a flute-girl from Cardia, and on her arrival in Bisaltia she taught many pipers; accordingly he set out with them to attack Cardia. And when the battle was on, he gave orders to play all the pipe melodies which the Cardian horses knew. And when the horses heard the piping, they stood on their hind legs and began to dance; but since the whole strength of the Cardians lay in their cavalry, they were beaten in this way.”[1]
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- ↑ Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists: Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus, C.D. Yonge (tr.), Vol. 3 (London: 1854), via Tufts University’s Perseus Digital Library Project, Book XII, Chapter 1.
