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|Definition=[ᾰ] (''[[sc.]]'' [[χορδή]]), ἡ, Dor. [[νεάτα]] Philol.6:—nete, [[the lowest of the three strings]] which formed the [[framework]] of the [[musical]] [[scale]] (opp. [[μέση]], [[ὑπάτη]]), but the [[highest]] in [[pitch]], Cratin.134, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 443d:—contr. [[νήτη]] Arist.''Ph.''224b34, ''Metaph.''1018b28, 1057a23, Alex.Eph. ap.Theon.Sm.p.140 H., etc.: in plural, <b class="b3">ἐπὶ τὰς νήτας… ἀναβαίνειν</b>, in declamation, Anty ll. ap. Orib.6.10.23. (Orig. fem. of [[νέατος]] (A).)