See τετρακτύς in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "but having studied Greek thoroughly, possessing no less knowledge of rhetoric, having read through the Aristotelian arts and Plato's dialogues, and having filled my mind with the quadrivium of the arts ... I now wish to narrate the deeds of my father through my writing",
"ref": "c. 1148, Anna Komnene, Alexiad:",
"roman": "allà kaì tò Hellēnízein es ákron espoudakuîa kaì rhētorikês ouk ameletḗtōs ékhousa kaì tàs Aristotelikàs tékhnas eû analexaménē kaì toùs Plátōnos dialógous kaì tòn noûn apò tês tetraktúos tôn mathēmátōn pukásasa [...] boúlomai dià têsdé mou tês graphês tàs práxeis aphēgḗsasthai toumoû patròs",
"text": "ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ Ἑλληνίζειν ἐς ἄκρον ἐσπουδακυῖα καὶ ῥητορικῆς οὐκ ἀμελετήτως ἔχουσα καὶ τὰς Ἀριστοτελικὰς τέχνας εὖ ἀναλεξαμένη καὶ τοὺς Πλάτωνος διαλόγους καὶ τὸν νοῦν ἀπὸ τῆς τετρακτύος τῶν μαθημάτων πυκάσασα [...] βούλομαι διὰ τῆσδέ μου τῆς γραφῆς τὰς πράξεις ἀφηγήσασθαι τοὐμοῦ πατρὸς",
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"glosses": [
"Pythagorean name for:",
"The four terms (6:8:9:12) of the proportion corresponding to the chief musical intervals; also their sum +1 (= 36); the sum of the first 8 numbers. (6:12::1:2::diapason, 6:9::2:3::diapente, 6:8::3:4::diatessaron; 1:2, 2:3, 3:4 being the ratios of neighboring terms in the sum of the previous definition. 8:9::tonus as a bonus. A diatonic scale may be derived from this; semitonus can be derived to be 243:256 by fitting tonus as many times as possible into a diatessaron and finding out what ratio remains. Tonus times tonus times semitonus equals diatessaron: do–re–mi–fa (6:8). Fa to sol is tonus (8:9). Sol to do’ is another diatessaron: sol–la–si–do’ = tonus times tonus times semitonus = do–re–mi–fa transposed to sol (9:12). 384:432:486:512:576:648:729:786::do:re:mi:fa:sol:la:si:do’.)"
],
"links": [
[
"Pythagorean",
"Pythagorean#English"
],
[
"term",
"term"
],
[
"musical",
"musical"
],
[
"interval",
"interval"
],
[
"diapason",
"diapason"
],
[
"diapente",
"diapente"
],
[
"diatessaron",
"diatessaron"
],
[
"diatonic scale",
"diatonic scale"
],
[
"transposed",
"transposed"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek historical terms",
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations",
"grc:Education"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "but having studied Greek thoroughly, possessing no less knowledge of rhetoric, having read through the Aristotelian arts and Plato's dialogues, and having filled my mind with the quadrivium of the arts ... I now wish to narrate the deeds of my father through my writing",
"ref": "c. 1148, Anna Komnene, Alexiad:",
"roman": "allà kaì tò Hellēnízein es ákron espoudakuîa kaì rhētorikês ouk ameletḗtōs ékhousa kaì tàs Aristotelikàs tékhnas eû analexaménē kaì toùs Plátōnos dialógous kaì tòn noûn apò tês tetraktúos tôn mathēmátōn pukásasa [...] boúlomai dià têsdé mou tês graphês tàs práxeis aphēgḗsasthai toumoû patròs",
"text": "ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ Ἑλληνίζειν ἐς ἄκρον ἐσπουδακυῖα καὶ ῥητορικῆς οὐκ ἀμελετήτως ἔχουσα καὶ τὰς Ἀριστοτελικὰς τέχνας εὖ ἀναλεξαμένη καὶ τοὺς Πλάτωνος διαλόγους καὶ τὸν νοῦν ἀπὸ τῆς τετρακτύος τῶν μαθημάτων πυκάσασα [...] βούλομαι διὰ τῆσδέ μου τῆς γραφῆς τὰς πράξεις ἀφηγήσασθαι τοὐμοῦ πατρὸς",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"quadrivium."
],
"links": [
[
"education",
"education"
],
[
"quadrivium",
"quadrivium"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(education, historical) quadrivium."
],
"tags": [
"historical"
],
"topics": [
"education"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/te.trak.ty̌ːs/"
},
{
"ipa": "/te.trakˈtys/"
},
{
"ipa": "/te.trakˈtis/"
},
{
"ipa": "/te.trak.ty̌ːs/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/te.trakˈtys/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/te.trakˈtys/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/te.trakˈtys/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/te.trakˈtis/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
"word": "τετρακτύς"
}
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