Re: Playing the banjo (Was: Latin help)

I don't have any vocabulary related to music yet, despite having
established a concultural referent: the Dankaran lute, which has five
strings or courses and is fretted at intervals that divide the octave
in 20 rather than 12.

On 9/6/07, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Quoting caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>:
>
> > --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> >
> > Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > >How about some verb associated with "playing" the harp, which Latins
> > >must have had... Hmm, where does "plectrum" come from?
> >
> > The NT Greek has a wonderful phrase in the Book of Revelation (14:2)
> > which was formerly translated as "harpers harping with their harps."
> > I'm visiting my family and don't have my usual resources, but the
> > three words are cithar___.
> > Most modern translations have rendered the phrase as "harpers playing
> > on their harps."  Yes, something is lost.
>
> ... hê phônê hên êkousa hôs kitharôdôn kitharizontôn en tais kitharais
> autôn.
>
>  Andreas
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>