# Musica 20

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Musica, Paragraph 20. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/claudius-ptolemaeus/musica/20

Τρία εἰσὶ τὰ ῥυθμιζόμενα, λέξις, μέλος, κίνησις σωματική, ὥστε διαιρήσει τὸν χρόνον ἡ μὲν λέξις τοῖς αὐτῆς μέρεσιν, οἶον γράμμασι καὶ συλλαβαῖς καὶ ῥήμασι καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς τοιούτοις· τὸ δὲ μέλος τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ φθόγγοις τε καὶ διαστήμασιν· ἡ δὲ κίνησις σημείοις τε καὶ σχήμασι καὶ εἴ τι τοιοῦτόν ἐστι κινήσεως μέρος. περὶ τούτοις ἐστὶν ὁ ῥυθμός.

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Claudius Ptolemaeus, Musica, ed. Karl von Jan. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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