Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sambucina

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SAMBU'CINA and SAMBUCIS'TRIA (σαμβυκίστρια). A female harpist (Plaut. Stich. ii. 3. 57.); mostly a foreign woman of Egyptian or Asiatic race. (Liv. xxxix. 6.) When playing, they either stood upright, in the position of the preceding figure, or knelt and sat upon their hams, as in the annexed example (Sambucina/1.1), which represents an Egyptian performer, from the tombs of Beni Hassan.

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