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Cicero, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I.45.109
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Transliteration A: phórminx Transliteration B: phorminx Transliteration C: formigks Beta Code: fo/rmigc

English (LSJ)

ιγγος, ἡ,

   A lyre, freq. in Hom., esp. as the instrument of Apollo, φόρμιγγος περικαλλέος ἣν ἔχ' Ἀπόλλων Il.1.603, cf. 24.63, Od.17.270, Hes.Sc.203; of Achilles, φρένα τερπόμενον φόρμιγγι λιγείῃ καλῇ δαιδαλέῃ Il.9.186; with seven strings (after Terpander's time), ἑπτάκτυπος, ἑπτάγλωσσος, Pi.P.2.71, N.5.24; ἀντιψάλλων ἐλεφαντόδετον φ. Ar.Av.219 (anap.).    2 φ. ἄχορδος, metaph. for a bow, Arist.Rh.1413a1.