A.musical instrument of many strings (“πολύχορδος” Theoc.16.45), invented by Terpander, Pi.Fr.125; freq. used for the lyre, Anacr.143, B.Scol.Oxy.1361.1.1, E.Cyc.40, Ar.Th.137, etc.: fem. in Anacreont.23.3, but masc. in 14.34: in earlier Poets the gender is not determined:—later βάρβι^τον , τό, as in Latin, Neanth. 5, D.H.7.72, Ath.4.175e, etc. (Prob. a foreign word, Str.10.3.17.)
βάρβι^τ-ος , ἡ or ὁ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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