^* The reader may find Eryximachos’ explanation which follows easier to understand if he thinks of “at variance” as meaning “out of tune,” and “reconciling” as tuning the strings, and of a bow as giving out a deep faint musical note when the arrow leaves it. “Harmony” and “symphony” had not to the Greeks all the meaning they have to us as musical terms. Harmony was rather the relation between single notes which sounded well in sequence, and symphony the sound of those notes played together. (Unison was one form of harmony, and sounds in unison one form of symphony; steady motion, a compromise of quick and slow, is one form of rhythm.) See also Republic, p. 225, n. ‡.