Verify Citation - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

Verify Citation

Quoted text:

The general idea was reported by Athenaeus[1] (XIV.627)

Should this be XVI instead of XIV since Chapter 16 was mentioned a few paragraphs earlier? And can you help us confirm it’s 627 and not 6–27? (We don’t have a source with line numbers.)

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  1. Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned, C.D. Yonge (tr.), Vol. 3 (London: 1854), via the Internet Archive, p. 1,001.