Ancient Greek musical instrument in the lyre or lyra family.
1 Hipparete blushed, and with a quick and nervous motion touched her cithara .
2 The moon rose; then the cithara and the flute began to play together.
3 And music played the tympanum and the pipe, the cithara and the harp.
4 To the cithara players and the singers he had ordered beforehand liberal pay.
5 Apollo discovered the art of medicine and invented the cithara .
6 Not before you have heard this other song arranged for the music of the cithara .
7 Philothea took her cithara , and played his favourite tunes.
8 A cithara being brought, Philothea played one of his favourite songs, accompanied by her voice.
9 At the walls cithara players and Athenian choristers were waiting for the signal of their leader.
10 Give command to cithara players to come to the supper, and afterward we will talk of Antium.
11 He made a cithara and a guitar for himself with only such tools as a boy can command.
12 When we peeped back into the triclinium, Aemilia Fausta was sitting morosely by herself, plucking at her cithara .
13 He sat for a time with his hands on the cithara and with bowed head; then, rising suddenly, he said,-
14 A lyre would have been easier, but with typical obstinacy Aemilia Fausta had set herself the professional challenge of a cithara .
15 Her head bowed towards the cithara , that pale hair in its faultless chignon looking like unyielding new lacquer on a hard stone bust.
16 Farewell, but make no music; commit murder, but write no verses; poison people, but dance not; be an incendiary, but play not on a cithara .
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