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Cithara tristitiam jucundat, timidos furores attenuat, cruentam saevitiam blande reficit, languorem. &c. 3474.
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Thus was an island plundered in perpetuity, an island whose celebrated musician Melampus had won the prize for Cithara at the Olympic Games as long ago as 582 BC.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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“Cithara crinitus Iopas,” &c. 1865 June 3 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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The volume contains about one-half or less of all the mass of lyrics I have written, some of the pieces having been in earlier books of my poetry, as Ballads and Poems, Cithara, Lyrics of the Heart and Mind, Hactenus,
My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886
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She it was who voluntarily translated into Swedish my two first series of “Proverbial Philosophy,” and many of my lyrics in “Cithara;” and naturally I was willing to answer her in kind (for the Baroness is an excellent and well-known poetess in her own land), but, as unfortunately the Swedish tongue is not among my few accomplishments, I was glad to turn to a diligent and authorial eldest daughter of mine, who learnt the language for me, and responded to our unseen friend with many of her poems rendered into English verse, as she had similarly favoured mine in Swedish.
My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886
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