. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. figure of the cistophorus carvedupon it. He is draped in a mannerclosely resembling the precedingfigure, with a tunic reaching to thefeet, but slightly raised, so as to ex-pose an under one beneath it ; apallium over the shoulder ; a chapletround the head ; and an infula hang-ing down in front of the breast ;
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. figure of the cistophorus carvedupon it. He is draped in a mannerclosely resembling the precedingfigure, with a tunic reaching to thefeet, but slightly raised, so as to ex-pose an under one beneath it ; apallium over the shoulder ; a chapletround the head ; and an infula hang-ing down in front of the breast ; inthe right hand a lustral branch, andin the left two double axes {Up-pennes), characteristic of the priestsof Bellona. Inscript. ap, Don. 62,and 135. Compare Demosth. p. ed. Reiske. Giovanni Lami, Dis-sertaz. sopra le Ciste Mistiche. 2. A silver coin, worth about fourdrachma?, which passed current inAsia, whence the expression in cis-tophoro (Cic. Att. xi. 1.) is equivalentz 170 CISTULA. CLABULARE. to saying in Asiatic money. Itreceived the name either from havingan impression of the sacred cistaupon it, or, as is more probable, ofthe shrub cistus (kistos). CISTUL A. Diminutive ofCista. Plaut. Amph. i. CITHARA (KiOdpa, K(dapis). Astringed instrument of very great. antiquity, resembling in form thehuman chest and neck (Isidor. 3. 22.), and so corresponding withour guitar, a term which comes to usthrough the Italian chitarra; theRoman c and Italian ch having thesame sound as the Greek k. Theillustration here introduced, from anancient bas-relief preserved in thehospital of St. John in Lateran atRome, agrees so closely with the de-scription which Isidorus gives of theinstrument, as to leave little doubtthat it preserves the real form of thecithara, in the strict and originalsense of that word although it mayhave been sometimes applied by theGreek poets in a less special ordeterminate meaning. See also thetwo following words and illustrations. CITHARISTA (
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