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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

dĭăpāsōn: = διὰ πασῶν (sc. χορδῶν), in music,
I the whole octave, Vitr. 5, 4, 8; Plaut. 2, 22, 20; Mart. Cap. 9, § 944; so too, dĭăpente = διὰ πέντε, a fifth, Mart. Cap. 9, § 934 al.; dĭătessărōn = διατεσσάρων, a fourth, id. 2, § 107; Vitr. 5, 4, 8; disdĭăpāsōn = δὶς διὰ πασῶν, a double octave, Plin. 2, 22, 20, § 84; Mart. Cap. 2, § 199 al. (All these words should perhaps be written here, as in Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 1, in Greek letters.)>

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

dĭăpāsōn, n. ind (διὰ πασῶν, s.-e. χορδῶν), octave [t. de musique] : Plin. 2, 84.