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|lshtext=<b>cĭthărista</b>: ae, m., = [[κιθαριστής]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[player]] on the [[cithara]] ([[mostly]] in Cic.), Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 15; id. Div. 2, 64, 133.—Esp., a [[statue]] of a [[player]] on the [[cithara]]: [[etiam]] illum Aspendium citharistam, de quo [[saepe]] audistis id [[quod]] est Graecis hominibus in proverbio, quem omnia [[intus]] canere dicebant, sustulit, i. e. he [[was]] so [[skilfully]] represented [[that]] he seemed to be playing the [[music]] [[inwardly]], [[though]] it [[was]] [[unheard]], Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 20, § 53 Zumpt ad loc.
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|gf=<b>cĭthărista</b>,¹⁵ æ, m. ([[κιθαριστής]]), joueur de cithare : Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 53 &#124;&#124; poète lyrique : Fort. Carm. 9, 7, 11.||poète lyrique : Fort. Carm. 9, 7, 11.
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