298 A RIS TO TL E 's PoLImx.
music =( the keynote,' ' that what ne have to say may be a sort of
keynote to any future discussion of the subject.' Cp. Arist. Rhet.
iii. 14. $ I, 14x4 b. 22, Kai yhp oi a;k?mi, 8 rl hv f8 Fxouiv a&jvnl
rolro npoauX$uaams OuvjJlav T$ &&7uLpy, mi h rois &ri&rmixois XdyorE
Bci O~TO ypd@rrv.
- 2-4. Aristotle suggests three reasons which might be given for the
cultivation of music :
I) ?rar8& Kai (ivarnkos &wa, like Sleep, wine, dancing (cp. Kit,
Eth. x. 6. 9 6), amusement and relaxation being the means to
renewed exertion.
Hence its value in
education (rnisda).
2) Because of its influence on character.
3) ~pb~ Smpy$v mi +po'vqurv, as an end.
In c. 7. $ 3 he speaks of music as being used for a) TiniScin,
6) Kdenpurr, c) Gluywy<; u) corresponds to 2) of c. 5 (+E T+
This leaves 6) Ici8npuis to correspond to the use of music as n
relaxation, and would seem to show that Aristotle gave the loncr
meaning to KdfhpUiS (i. e. ' purgation ' rather than purification ').
Cp. c. 3. 8 4, $appnKdas Xipru, and C. 7. 9 4, Cump iarpdas rqdvms
Kai Kaedporos. See note on c. 7. $ 3.
narhcinv), C) to 3).
- rrai bpa noh p'pipvav, 8s rptjuiv ECptaiSrp
Goettling and Bekker (in his second edition), against the au-
thority of the XISS. of the Politics, have altered dpn ra& ink
;van&, an unnecessary change, and unsupported by the JISS. oi
Euripides, which cannot be quoted on either side ; for the citation.
like many others in Aristotle, is inaccurate. The words referred
to occur in Eur. Bacch. $30 :-
SE [Rpdpros] rdd' ;xa,
B~a&FLv TI XopoiE
prra r' nCXoC yshaoar,
dnonaloal rf ppipras.
- rdrrowtv ah+.
Sc. cis ?raiSiAu ra'l dvdmuatv understood from the words preceding.
6.3. Reading &rvy for oLy, gathered from &VOU iai $eqs supra, Kith
