Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cithern .
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Others who more delighted to write songs or ballads of pleasure, to be song with the voice, and to the harpe, lute, or citheron & such other musical instruments, they were called melodious Poets [_melici_] or by a more common name _Lirique_ Poets, of which sort was _Pindarus, Anacreon_ and
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Others who more delighted to write songs or ballads of pleasure, to be song with the voice, and to the harpe, lute, or citheron & such other musical, instruments, they were called melodious Poets [melici] or by a more common name Lirique Poets, of which sort was Pindarus, Anacreon and Callimachus with others among the Greeks: Horace and Catullus among the Latines.
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