Herculaneum Volumes: Second Collection, Volume I

... [ra]keta... [e]ile... tas ch[a]...
For indeed, having defined the end, he says it is naturally
to contribute to the reception
of that which is thus deafened,
to have been pulled in by those who are thinking,
in the ships and those who are harvesting,
[also] the wine-
workers, and many
others of those who are commonly accom-
plishing [works]. For while work-
ing something contrary to nature,
[Heino] and Ptolemy, this
man writes, have brought it about through
drawing others—that [what] is
compelling and represents the
limbs towards the actions and [are
placing] if [they] have [for]
music to have been arranged
end those who are performing;
without music [of the] ...
... [are] able to the [man]...
towards the only to be [and]
to make lighter [the]
[mixing] of pleasure and
Orpheus, he [leads]
[the] of Greece through
[in] melodies those [who] drag
[them] and all [who]
to know, as [they]
[as] it had already long
[with] the trireme-
[players] as in the [cork(?)] and [not] thus
[better] than the [inhabited] [buildings]
for these reasons we shall say
because of this the [selected]
but [it is] graceful, not only [to]
the souls through [also]
how the melody and the [cithara(?)]
bodies just as [towards]
[towards] them, just as
the things towards the bodies [through]
towards perception and the
[therefore] also [providing]
[to the] [foot]...