A.play the cithara, “φόρμιγγι . . ἱμερόεν κιθάριζε” Il.18.570, Hes.Sc.202; “λύρῃ δ᾽ ἐρατὸν κιθαρίζων” h.Merc.423; “ἕρπει ἄντα τῶ σιδάρω τὸ καλῶς κιθαρίσδεν” Alcm.35, cf. X.Smp.3.1, Oec.2.13; “ᾁδειν καὶ κ.” Phld.Mus.7 K.; κιθαρίζειν οὐκ ἐπίσταμαι I am not a 'high-brow', Ar.V.989, cf. 959; “ἀρχαῖον εἶν᾽ ἔφασκε τὸ κ.” Id.Nu.1357: prov., ὄνος κιθαρίζειν πειρώμενος, like ὄνος πρὸς λύραν (v. λύρα), Luc.Pseudol.7; τὸ κιθαριζόμενον music composed for the cithara, Plu.2.1144d.
κι^θαρ-ίζω , Att. fut. -ιῶ Antiph. 141: (κίθαρις):—
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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