fidibus

Solitus erat oblectare se fidibus, et voce musica canentium; sed hoc omne sublatum Sybillae cujusdam interventu,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The guests sit down and are handed filled pipes and a lighted _fidibus_, or pipe-lighter.

William of Germany Stanley Shaw

The guests sit down and are handed filled pipes and a lighted fidibus, or pipe-lighter.

William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

Aeoliae fidibus puellae. non sola comptos arsit adulteri crinis et aurum uestibus illitum

Song Makes Immortal Horace 1912

His friend Sand differed greatly in this respect, and one of the saddest anecdotes related by De Lenz accuses her of calling for a match to light her cigar: "Frederic, un fidibus," she commanded, and Frederic obeyed.

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

George Sand drew an enormously thick Trabucco cigar out of her apron pocket, and called out "Frederic! un fidibus!"

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

To which Cicero himself aptly answers, “æque contingit omnibus fidibus, ut incontentæ sint; illud non continuo, ut æque incontentæ.”

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

Thus, through the hands of Dumouriez, may Rouget de Lille, in figurative speech, be said to have gained, miraculously, like another Orpheus, by his Marseillese fiddle-strings (fidibus canoris) a Victory of Jemappes; and conquered the Low Countries.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

_Musa dedit fidibus Divos, puerosque Divorum_ [10],

An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients John Ogilvie 1772

Vivuntque commifli calores iEoiiae fidibus puellse,

Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical ... 1774