musical instruments
“lyre, harp, pipe”
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
cither · flute · lyre · the harp · the lyre · the pipe
in the texts
Protrepticus
Physical instruments contrasted with the Word as the true, living instrument of God.
So it is not by the song of Eunomus that the grasshopper is moved, as the legend will have it — the legend that set up at Pytho a bronze statue of Eunomus with his very lyre, and his fellow-contestant the Locrian.
He who is of David, and was before him, the Word of God, scorning the lyre and the harp, those lifeless instruments, and tuning by the Holy Spirit this universe, and especially that little universe, man — his soul and body alike — makes music to God through the many-voiced instrument, and accompanies his song upon the instrument that is man.
Symposium
Instruments used to produce the musical pleasure of the symposium.
They now played for the assemblage, the flute-girl on the flute, the boy on the cither;
After this the boy, attuning his lyre to the flute, played and sang, and won the applause of all;
He had with him a fine flute-girl, a dancing-girl—one of those skilled in acrobatic tricks,—and a very handsome boy, who was expert at playing the cither and at dancing;