Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lyristes

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LYRIS'TES (λυριστής). One who plays upon the lyre (Plin. Ep. i. 15.); which was done either by twanging the strings with both hands, like a harp in the manner represented by the left-hand figure in the illustration (Lyristes/1.1) from a statue of Apollo in the Vatican; or by striking them with a small quill (plectrum) held in one hand, and the fingers of the other, as performed by the female figure on the right-hand of the illustration, from a Roman fresco painting, also preserved in the Vatican. The female player was termed Lyristria. Schol. Vet. ad Juv. xi. 162.

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