A dictionary of Greek and Roman . lakes, rivers, &c. (Cic. De Off. ; Aen. vi. 303.) It appears to have been muchthe same as the andriov and scapha. CYMBALUM (\ov), a musical instru-ment, in the shape of two half globes, which wereheld one in each hand by the performer, and playedby being struck against each other. The word isoriginally Greek, being derived from kv/xSos, ahollow, with which the Latin cymba, cymbium, & to be connected. Several kinds of cymbalsare found on ancient monuments, and on the otherhand a great many names have been preserved by the gramma
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . lakes, rivers, &c. (Cic. De Off. ; Aen. vi. 303.) It appears to have been muchthe same as the andriov and scapha. CYMBALUM (\ov), a musical instru-ment, in the shape of two half globes, which wereheld one in each hand by the performer, and playedby being struck against each other. The word isoriginally Greek, being derived from kv/xSos, ahollow, with which the Latin cymba, cymbium, & to be connected. Several kinds of cymbalsare found on ancient monuments, and on the otherhand a great many names have been preserved by the grammarians and lexicographers ; but the de-scriptions of the latter are so vague, that it is im-possible to identify one with the other. A largeclass of cymbals was termed Kpov/mara, which, ifthey were really distinct from the KporaXa, asSpohn and Lampe suppose, cannot now be exactlydescribed. [Crotalum.] The annexed drawingof a Kpov/xa is taken from an ancient marble, andinserted on the authority of Spohn (Miscell. sec. 6. fig. 44).. 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
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