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Give command to cithara players to come to the supper, and afterward we will talk of Antium. It is needful to think of it, especially for thee." Vinicius gave the order to send for Eunice, but declared that he had no thought of breaking his head over the stay in Antium. "Let those break their heads who cannot live otherwise than in the rays of Cæsar's favor.
But to make any artist, however eminent, responsible for the decadence of art, is to confuse cause with effect; and the note of ignominy affixed by Augustus to the Art of Love was as futile as the action of the Spartan ephor when he cut the strings away from the cithara of Timotheus.
But never paint an artist an artist and a gentleman!" They laughed merrily and the boat glided on out into the lagoon and the broad, flooding moonlight. "Sing something," said Giorgione. He raised the flute to his lips, breathing into it a gay, gentle air. The lute and cithara, from the opposite side, took it up. Presently the tenor voice joined in, carrying the air with sweet, high notes.
In moments of depression More's favorite solace was the viol; and so greatly did he value musical accomplishments in women, that he not only instructed his first and girlish wife to play on various instruments, but even prevailed on the sour Mistress Alice Middleton "to take lessons on the lute, the cithara, the viol, the monochord, and the flute, which she daily practised to him."
Subsequently dialogue was added.... In Greece the early lyric epoch is represented by the Paians, Dithyrambs, etc., at the festivals of Apollo and Dionysos, rhythmic dances to accompaniment of cithara or flute, with words generally improvised. Out of the Bacchic dithyrambs grew the tragedy.
The floor was covered with rich carpets from Sardis; low cushions of panthers' skins lay ranged along the colonnade; around the artistically wrought hearth stood quaint Egyptian settees, and small, delicately-carved tables of Thya wood, on which lay all kinds of musical instruments, the flute, cithara and lyre.
Guessing that Thais would soon develop into a most beautiful woman, she taught her with the help of a whip music and prosody, and she flogged with leather thongs those beautiful legs, when they did not move in time to the strains of the cithara. Her son a decrepit abortion, of no age and no sex ill-treated the child, on whom he vented the hate he had for all womankind.
Immediately after her coming supper was served, during which songs were sung by the cithara players; Vinicius told of Chilo's visit, and also how that visit had given the idea of going to the Apostles directly, an idea which came to him while they were flogging Chilo.
Drusus had just bidden his body-servants undress him, when he was informed that Agias had come from the Lentulan villa, and wished to see him. Cithara. Itinerant pipers have existed in Italy from earliest times; they still survive, albeit in alien lands and with less tuneful instruments. Agias was full of protestations of delight at beholding his intercessor and ransomer.
"By Phoebus! a glorious song and divinely sung," exclaimed Alcibiades: "But the lovely minstrel brings danger to our hearts in those sweet sounds, as Harmodius concealed his sword among myrtle leaves." Hipparete blushed, and with a quick and nervous motion touched her cithara. With a nod and a smile, Aspasia said, "Continue the music, I pray you."
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