A dictionary of Greek and Roman . The \a mentioned in the Homeric hymnto Apollo (161—164), were of this kind, playedon by a chorus of Delians. The scabilla or Kpov-ire(ia were also on the same principle, only playedwith the foot, and inserted in the shoe of the per-former ; they were used by flute-players, perhapsto beat time to their music. (Pollux, x. 33.)Other kinds of cymbals were, the TrKarayq, aninvention of Archytas, mentioned by Aristotle{Pol. viii. 6), and its diminutive irXaraydoviou,which, from the description of Julius Polluxand Hesychius (s. v.), appears to h
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . The \a mentioned in the Homeric hymnto Apollo (161—164), were of this kind, playedon by a chorus of Delians. The scabilla or Kpov-ire(ia were also on the same principle, only playedwith the foot, and inserted in the shoe of the per-former ; they were used by flute-players, perhapsto beat time to their music. (Pollux, x. 33.)Other kinds of cymbals were, the TrKarayq, aninvention of Archytas, mentioned by Aristotle{Pol. viii. 6), and its diminutive irXaraydoviou,which, from the description of Julius Polluxand Hesychius (s. v.), appears to have been achilds rattle: 6^v§afa, the two parts of whichSuidas tells us (s. v.) were made of different mate-terials for the sake of variety of sound: norvXai,mentioned in the fragments of Aeschylus, withseveral others, noted by Lampe in his work DeCymbalis, but perhaps without sufficient cymbal was usually made in the form of twohalf globes, either running off towards a point soas to be grasped by the whole hand, or writh a. handle. It was commonly of bronze, but some-times of baser material, to which Aristophanesalludes {Ranae, 1305).. The preceding woodcut 382 DAEDALA. DAMARETION. of a cymbalistria is taken from an ancient marble,and given on the authority of Lampe. The cymbal was a very ancient instrument,being used in the worship of Cybele, Bacchus,Juno, and all the earlier deities of the Grecian andRoman mythology. It probably came from theEast, from whence, through the Phoenicians, it wasconveyed to Spain (compare Martials BaeticaCrumata). Among the Jews it appears (from2 Chron. v. 12, 13; Nehem. xii. 27) to have beenan instrument in common use. At Rome we firsthear of it in Livys account of the Bacchic orgies,which were introduced from Etruria. (xxxix. 9.) For sistrnm, which some have referred to theclass of cymbala, see Sistrjm. [B. J.] CYRBEIS (Kip8eLs). [Axones.] CYZICENUS OECUS. [Domus]. CYZICENUS NUMMUS. [Stater]. D. DACTYLIOTHECA (5af£TuAto07}/c7?
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