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Headword:
Nomos
Adler number: nu,478
Translated headword: nomos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the type of melody for cithara-playing, having this harmony[1] and a specified rhythm. There were seven such [nomoi defined] by
Terpander, of which one is 'orthios',[2] 'tetradios',[3] and shrill. Dorians use [the word] in their dialect for coinage, and Romans, deviating, say 'noummon'.[4] Attic [writers apply the word to] the divided portions of land, as also in Egypt. And [it is] also justice in written form.[5]
[It is said] that Darius had a nomos, a Phrygian and a Lydian and an Ionic.[6]
Nomos: ho kitharôidikos tropos tês melôidias, harmonian echôn tautên kai rhuthmon hôrismenon. êsan de hepta hoi hupo Terpandrou, hôn heis orthios, tetradios, oxus. Dôrieis de epi nomismatos chrôntai têi lexei, kai Rhômaioi paratrepsantes noummon legousin. Attikoi ta dianenemêmena merê tês gês, hôs kai en Aiguptôi. kai to dikaion engraphon. hoti Dareios eiche nomon, ton te Phrugion kai Ludion kai Iônikon.
Notes:
For the various meanings of the noun nomos which this entry (which has close parallels with glosses on
Herodotus 1.24) haphazardly surveys, see LSJ s.v. First paragraph also in
Photius (nu253 Theodoridis).
[1] Translating the
tau/thn printed by Adler; she notes, however, that ms G has the reading
takth/n, and Theodoridis on
Photius (above) regards it as correct: 'having an ordered harmony'.
[2] cf.
omicron 574,
omicron 575,
omicron 585. On
Terpander, see
tau 354.
[3] Not in LSJ, but presumably means quadripartite.
[4] i.e. the Latin
nummus.
[5] i.e. law.
[6] Adler notes the suggestion of Hemsterhuis that 'Darius' should read 'Dorian' (accusative case, agreeing with nomos). However, the idea is otiose because the substance of the phrase comes from
Herodotus 3.127.1 (where the subject is not Darius but Oroites and the Suda's
no/mon is, correctly,
nomo/n, satrapy). For the source-identification see Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXX.
Translated by: Nathan Greenberg ✝ on 6 October 2002@09:56:47.
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