Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Citharistria

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

CITHARIS'TRIA (κιθαριστρία, κιθαριστρίς). A female player upon the cithara or guitar. (Terent. Ph. i. 2. 32. and compare CITHARISTA.) These women were frequently introduced, together with dancing and singing girls, to amuse the guests at an entertainment; and the figure in the engraving (Citharistria/1.1), from a tomb at Thebes in Egypt, is evidently intended to represent a character of that description, as is apparent from the attention bestowed upon the decoration of her person, the hair, earrings, necklace, bracelets on the arms and wrists, the shoes, and transparent drapery.

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  Citharistria/1.1