A dictionary of Greek and Roman . * were used by flute-players, perhapsto beat time to their music. (Pollux, x. 33.)Other kinds of cymbals were, the ivXarayq, aninvention of Archytas, mentioned by Aristotle(Pol. viii. 6), and its diminutive irXarayccviou,which, from the description of Julius Polluxand Hesychius (s. v.), appears to have been achilds rattle: o^v§afa, the two parts of whichSuidas tells us (s. v.) were made of different mate-terials for the sake of variety of sound: KorvXai,mentioned in the fragments of Aeschylus, withseveral others, noted by Lampe in his work DeCymb
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . * were used by flute-players, perhapsto beat time to their music. (Pollux, x. 33.)Other kinds of cymbals were, the ivXarayq, aninvention of Archytas, mentioned by Aristotle(Pol. viii. 6), and its diminutive irXarayccviou,which, from the description of Julius Polluxand Hesychius (s. v.), appears to have been achilds rattle: o^v§afa, the two parts of whichSuidas tells us (s. v.) were made of different mate-terials for the sake of variety of sound: KorvXai,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 with a. handle. It was commonly of bronze, but some-times of baser material, to which Aristophanesalludes (Ranae, 1305). The preceding woodcut 382 DAEDALA. DAMARETTON. of a c3Tmbalistria 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 sistrum, which some have referred to theclass of cymbalo.^ see Sistrum. [B. J.] CYRBEIS (KipSeis). [Axones.] CYZICENUS OECUS. [Domus]. CYZICENUS NUMMUS. [Stater]. D. DACTYLIOTHECA (8cucTu\tofl^/«j),acase orbox where rings were kept. (Mart. x
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