5
Or, ‘close alongside of their neighbour’s instruments, as if to catch a sound from them.’
6
Omitting ἐνταῦθα δὲ πρὸς φαντάσματα. The word θεῖα is bracketed by Stallbaum.
7
A play upon the word νόμος, which means both ‘law’ and ‘strain.’
8
γραμμάς, literally ‘lines,’ probably the starting-point of a race-course.
BOOK VIII.
1
i.e. a cyclical number, such as 6, which is equal to the sum of its divisors 1, 2, 3, so that when the circle or time represented by 6 is completed, the lesser times or rotations represented by 1, 2, 3 are also completed.