Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Orgănum

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Orgănum

（ὄργανον). A generic term for any machine or implement for saving labour, but differing from machina in that it always implies skill as well as strength in its use. It frequently denotes a musical instrument (Quint.ix. 4, 10), on which see the article Hydraulus.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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