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σαμβύκ-η [υ_], ἡ,
A.a triangular musical instrument with four strings, Arist.Pol.1341b1, Neanth.5 J., Juba 73; of barbaric origin, Str.10.3.17. (Aramaic sabbekhā (perh. not Semitic), with m inserted, as in Ἀμβακούμ = Habakkuk. etc.).
2. = σαμβυκίστρια, Plb.5.37.10; with pun on signf. 11, Id.8.6.6.
II. an engine of like form used in sieges, Id.8.4.8, al., Bito 57.1, Plu.Marc.15, Ath.Mech.27.7, App.Mith.26.—Cf. σάμβυξ. [Penult. long in sambūca, Pers.5.95.]
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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    • Polybius, Histories, 11
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.37.10
    • Polybius, Histories, 8.4.8
    • Polybius, Histories, 8.6.6
    • Strabo, Geography, 10.3.17
    • Plutarch, Marcellus, 15
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