rhoptra

Updated: July 9, 2025

[Footnote 71: Plutarch seems to mean something like drums furnished with bells or rattles; but his description is not very clear, and the passage may be rendered somewhat differently from what I have rendered it: "but they have instruments to beat upon ([Greek: rhoptra] ῥόπτρα), made of skin, and hollow, which they stretch round brass sounders" ([Greek: êcheiois]

Plutarch - Plutarch's Lives Volume III.