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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 34 0 Browse Search
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Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 10 0 Browse Search
Euripides, Phoenissae (ed. E. P. Coleridge) 8 0 Browse Search
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.) 6 0 Browse Search
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T. Maccius Plautus, Stichus, or The Parasite Rebuffed (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 2, scene 2 (search)
carpets dyed in purple, has he brought. GELASIMUS Abundance of fine things. I' faith, his business has been successful. PINACIUM Then, as I began to say, female players on the harp, on the pipe, sackbuts tooSackbuts too: "Sambucas." "Sambuca" is supposed to be the same instrument which is mentioned in the third chapter of the Prophet Daniel, and is rendered in our version of the Old Testament by the word "sackbut." This instrument was probably introduced into Greece and Rome from Syria or Phoenicia. It is supposed to have been a kind of triangular harp. The word "sambucas" is substituted in Ritschel's edition for "sambucinas," in the former editions It is probably intended here to have the same meaning--"female players on the sambuca,'" who were also called "sambucistriæ," and whose performances were highly prized by the Romans as Asiatic luxuries., has he brought with him, of surprising beauty. GELASIMUS Capital! When I'm at my wine, I'll be quite sportive; then am I in merriest pin