. 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. 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 the
. 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. 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 (KiSapiar^s). Onewho plays upon the cithara, or (Cic. Phil. v. 6.) Homer describesthe manner in which the player held this instrument, by saying that itwas placed upon the arm (lirooXiviovKiOapifav. Hymn. Merc. 432.), asshown by the annexed wood-cut,representing an Egyptian citharista,from the tombs at Thebes. It af-fords also a further confirmation thatthe character ascribed to the ci-thara in the last article is the cor-rect one, and will likewise serve asan authority for correcting the falsereading vitoXiviov in the same hymn(v. 507.). It was sometimes sus-pended across the shoulders by abalteus (Apul. Flor. ii. 15. 2. andnext wood-cut), and, like the lyre,was occasionally struck with the plec-trum, instead of the fingers. c. 498. CITHARISTRIA (KtBapiffrpta,KidapiaTpis). A female player upon thecithara or guitar. (Terent. Ph. i. and compare _ ClTH ARISTA.) These women ^z^Sfass^^were frequentlyintroduced, toge- if 1 ther with dancing tm 13and singing girls, Iffi
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