citharist
- a word derived from cithara.
Example Sentences
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The teacher was known as a citharist, and the instrument usually used was the seven-stringed lyre.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
This metope, as drawn by Carrey, appears to have contained a nearly nude male figure, standing, and a draped figure of a woman, or citharist, holding a lyre.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
Epigonus was also a skilled citharist and played with his bare hands without plectrum.4 Unfortunately we have no record of when Epigonus lived.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
A male figure, wearing the dress of a citharist, with a long tunic falling to the feet, confined by a belt and by bands crossing the breast.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
Arion: the celebrated Greek bard and citharist, who, in the seventh century before Christ, lived at the court of Periander, tyrant of Corinth.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
