| The entrance to the ecstatic Dionysiac world in the Villa of the Mysteries is marked by Silenus playing a cithara at the edge of a rocky landscape. |
| Hipparete blushed, and with a quick and nervous motion touched her cithara. |
| And music played the tympanum and the pipe, the cithara and the harp. |
| A cithara being brought, Philothea played one of his favourite songs, accompanied by her voice. |
| Players on the cithara tune their instrument to these four, viz. |
| The first stringed instrument to which this new device was applied was the clavicytherium, or keyed cithara. |
