Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Crusmata

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

CRUS'MATA or CRU'MATA (κρούματα or κρούσματα). Castanets; in ancient times, as well as our own, peculiarly characteristic of the Spanish nation (Mart. Ep. vi. 71.), though the same instruments were also played by the women of Greece and Italy, as is proved by the annexed illustration (Crusmata/1.1), from a fictile vase; and by a bas-relief of the Capitoline Museum (iii. 36.), in which a female is represented with the same instrument in her right-hand, and the scabillum under her left foot.

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  Crusmata/1.1