updated_at,id,text,theme,metaphor,work_id,reviewed_on,provenance,created_at,comments,context,dictionary 2009-12-30 18:36:35 UTC,16904,"Voice is a kind of sound characteristic of what has soul in it; nothing that is without soul utters voice, it being only by a metaphor that we speak of the voice of a flute or the lyre or generally of what (being without soul) possesses the power of producing a succession of notes which differ in length and pitch and timbre. The metaphor is based on the fact that all these differences are also found in voice.
(420b5-10, pp. 204-5)","","""Voice is a kind of sound characteristic of what has soul in it; nothing that is without soul utters voice, it being only by a metaphor that we speak of the voice of a flute or the lyre or generally of what (being without soul) possesses the power of producing a succession of notes which differ in length and pitch and timbre.""",6411,2003-10-22,Reading On the Soul,2003-06-12 00:00:00 UTC,"•META-METAPHORICAL. INTEREST. REVISIT. •A kind of reversed metaphor, but see Book One discussion of the soul as harmony. This record doesn't belong in the proper database, but does belong in my dissertation on music metaphors. ","",""