cithara

In fact, Nero often played a type of lyre called a cithara.

Diaphanous gold and black chiffon dresses, bound with winding ribbons, pleated and worn with metallic cithara garlands.

He didn’t burn down Rome, though, and if he had been playing a musical instrument at the time, it would have been a cithara, fiddles not having been invented.

Hermes was a patron of music, like Apollo, and invented the cithara; he presided over the games, with Apollo and Heracles, and his statues were common in the stadia and gymnasia.

Phorminx, for′mingks, n. a kind of cithara.