psalterion

He seizes the psalterion -- Balaustion must let him use it for once -- and sings the song, from Sophocles, of Thamyris marching to his doom.

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

The Psalter (psalterion), Gospel (enaggelion), and Apostle

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

The Septuagint MSS. of the Book of Psalms read either psalmoi, psalms, or psalterion, psalter.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

When towards the close of the poem he takes in hand the psalterion, and chants in splendid strains the story of Thamuris, who aspired and failed, as he himself will never do, the reader is almost won over to his side.

Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

The Greek psalterium (psalterion), from which our word is derived, denotes an instrument played with the fingers instead of a plectrum or quill, the verb being used of twanging the bow-string.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

Balaustion's reading of the _Herakles_, and seizing the psalterion sings the song of Thamuris marching to his trial with the Muses through a golden autumn morning -- it is the glory and loveliness of nature that he sings.

The Poetry Of Robert Browning 1874

Then, at Gerard's earnest request, one more heavenly strain upon the psalterion, and so to bed, the troubled spirit calmed, and the sore heart soothed.

The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

‘psalterion’ (North) ‘psaltery’; ‘chasma’ (Henry More) ‘chasm’; ‘idioma’ and ‘prosodia’ (both in Daniel, prose) ‘idiom’ and ‘prosody’; ‘energia’,

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

Neginoth (12533a26. gif; Septuagint, en psalmois, in Ps. iv, en hymnois elsewhere; Vulg., in carminibus; Symmachus, dia psalterion;

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913