Missing Quotation Mark - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
Missing Quotation Mark
Quoted text:
Athenaeus[1] (XII.3–41) reported that “To such a point had they carried their luxurious refinement that they had even trained their horses to dance at their feasts to the accompaniment of pipes. Now the people of Croton knew this when they made war on the Sybarites, as Aristotle records in his account of their Constitution.” Apparently some Sybarite had insulted (probably made unwelcome advances on) one of the flute-players, who resolved to avenge the insult by playing the tune to the Crotonites. At a signal in the battle all the Crotonite pipers played the melody to which the horses were accustomed, whereupon they rose on their hind legs, throwing off their riders, and so caused an easy victory for Croton.
There was a close-quotation mark but no open-quotation mark here; can you help us find a translation that might have been close to this text so we know if it was a quotation, which part was quoted and which was added?
Originally it was written (the missing open-quotation mark is as originally written):
At a signal in the battle all the Crotonite pipers played the melody to which the horses were accustomed, whereupon they rose on their hind legs, throwing off their riders [, and so caused an easy victory for Croton.]”
We removed the close-quotation mark and the brackets until we know the quotation. It seems approximate to this source or p. 834 of this one, but not exact.
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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.
