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cithara

[ sith-er-uh ]

noun



cithara

/ ˈ²õɪθə°ùÉ™ /

noun

  1. a stringed musical instrument of ancient Greece and elsewhere, similar to the lyre and played with a plectrum
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cithara1

C18: from Greek kithara
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In fact, Nero often played a type of lyre called a cithara.

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Diaphanous gold and black chiffon dresses, bound with winding ribbons, pleated and worn with metallic cithara garlands.

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He didn’t burn down Rome, though, and if he had been playing a musical instrument at the time, it would have been a cithara, fiddles not having been invented.

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Hermes was a patron of music, like Apollo, and invented the cithara; he presided over the games, with Apollo and Heracles, and his statues were common in the stadia and gymnasia.

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Phorminx, for′mingks, n. a kind of cithara.

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