Lucian, De saltatione, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 68

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Λυκῖνος

τὰ μὲν οὖν ἄλλα θεάματα καὶ ἀκούσματα ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ἔργου τὴν ἐπίδειξιν ἔχει· ἢ γὰρ αὐλός ἐστιν ἢ κιθάρα ἢ διὰ φωνῆς μελῳδία ἢ τραγικὴ δραματουργία ἢ κωμικὴ γελωτοποιία· ὁ δὲ ὀρχηστὴς τὰ πάντα ἔχει συλλαβών, καὶ ἔνεστιν ποικίλην καὶ παμμιγῆ τὴν παρασκευὴν αὐτοῦ ἰδεῖν, αὐλόν, σύριγγα, ποδῶν κτύπον, κυμβάλου ψόφον, ὑποκριτοῦ εὐφωνίαν, ᾀδόντων ὁμοφωνίαν.

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Περὶ Ὀρχήσεως (Greek) (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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The Dance Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 68 focus

[68] Moreover, the other performances that appeal to eye and ear contain, each of them, the display of a single activity; there is either flute or lyre or vocal music or tragedy’s mummery or comedy’s buffoonery. The dancer, however, has everything at once, and that equipment of his, we may see, is varied and comprehensive—the flute, the pipes, the tapping of feet, the clash of cymbals, the melodious voice of the actor,¹ the concord of the singers.

Of Pantomime Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 2. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 68 focus

[68] Other entertainments of eye or ear are but manifestations of a single art: ’tis flute or lyre or song; ’tis moving tragedy or laughable comedy. The pantomime is all-embracing in the variety of his equipment: flute and pipe, beating foot and clashing cymbal, melodious recitative, choral harmony.

Lucian De saltatione 68

ed. Austin Morris Harmon

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