Phrygian

[1276b] say the men are the same, but the city is different: for if a city is a community, it is a community of citizens; but if the mode of government should alter, and become of another sort, it would seem a necessary consequence that the city is not the same; as we regard the tragic chorus as different from the comic, though it may probably consist of the same performers: thus every other community or composition is said to be different if the species of composition is different; as in music the same hands produce different harmony, as the Doric and Phrygian. If this is true, it is evident, that when we speak of a city as being the same we refer to the government there established; and this, whether it is called by the same name or any other, or inhabited by the same men or different.

He met at the court of Croesus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is related so to have pleased his royal master, by the part he took in the conversations held with these philosophers, that he applied to him an expression which has since passed into a proverb, "The Phrygian has spoken better than all."

He wore a red woolen bonnet, exactly like the Phrygian cap in which Liberty is tricked out, a piece of head-gear in common use in this country.

Moreover, send a messenger quickly to the swift- horsed Phrygians, to tell my father and my sorrowing mother; and they will send you gold in plenty and woven stuffs, many splendid gifts; take these as bride-piece.

Phorcys, again, and noble Ascanius led the Phrygians from the far country of Ascania, and both were eager for the fray.

Baughan accepts the new Gordion chronology in her discussion of rock-cut chamber tombs in Phrygia, as well as a late date for Arslan Kaya (sixth century BC), relegating dissenting opinions to brief citations in her notes--with uncertain consequences for the dating of these Phrygian tombs (pp.

Spanish elements, such as the use of the Phrygian mode, Andalusian cadences, Arabic influences, and the alternation of the tonic triad with its upper half step major chord, are recurrent.

A folded fundus, the Phrygian cap, is the most common congenital anomaly of the GB.

The mode of the Repertorio Espanol song is minor; it is not one of the two modes Plato recommends for the moral edification of the public and attunement of the soul in his Republic and Laws, the Dorian and Phrygian modes (West, "Music in antiquity" 58).

The modes are: Ionian (major), Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian (minor), and Locrian.