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Meanings of play the lyre in English

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Usage of play the lyre in English
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Forgive him his larceny; he is wretchedly ignorant, he cannot play the lyre.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
2
No, I know no more how to acquit than to play the lyre.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
3
I can also sing and play the lyre, but people hardly ever want that.'
Gladiatrix
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I didn't write it, though. He began to play the lyre and Leto laughed.
Book One: Apotheosis
5
She could hunt all day and throw dice all night or play the lyre to soothe tempers.
Lily of the Nile
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Arsinoe would play the lyre -shewas quite talented at it-and the two boys would sometimes be playing a board game of their own.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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Just inside the atrium, a company of musicians sat playing the lyre, flute, and bells.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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SOCRATES: Nor the wisdom which plays the lyre?
Laches
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Hey, a mass-murdering psychopath who plays the lyre?
Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
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And in playing the lyre, or wrestling, quickness or sharpness are far better than quietness and slowness?
Charmides
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'Laura is exactly like Apollo playing the lyre, outside mamma's old manuscript book of music.'
The Heir of Redclyffe
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SOCRATES: And is not the same true of all similar arts, as, for example, the art of playing the lyre at festivals?
Gorgias
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Thus relieved of immediate care, Haydon set to work on the second picture of his series, 'Nero playing the Lyre while Rome was burning.'
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
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Apollo is always spoken of as playing the lyre, but Raphael gives him a violin, because the action in playing that instrument is so graceful.
Raphael / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the...
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