The corpus record — Latin

barbĭtŏs

barbĭtŏs · m

a lyre

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What it meant

barbĭtŏs — Lewis & Short

barbĭtŏs, m. (f. in the spurious epistle of Sappho,

Ov. H. 15, 8;

I v. infra; found only in nom., acc., and voc.; plur. barbita, n., Aus. Ep. 44). = ba/rbiton (-os), a lyre, a lute (not before the Aug. per.): age, dic Latinum, Barbite, carmen, Hor. C. 1, 32, 4; 1, 1, 34; 3, 26, 4; Claud. Praef. ap. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 10; Aus. Epigr. 44.—

II Meton., the song played upon the lute: non facit ad lacrimas barbitos ulla meas, Ov. H. 15. 8 (a spurious poem).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.