cinyras
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cinyra, cinyrae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
- Field:
- Arts
lyre, ten-stringed instrument;
acc. pl.
Examples
Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sine prole fuisset, inter felices Cinyras potuisset haberi. dira canam; procul hinc natae, procul este parente..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...deae nomen id perhibent. fama recentior tradit a Cinyra sacratum templum deamque ipsam conceptam mari huc adpulsam..."