| The first stringed instrument to which this new device was applied was the clavicytherium, or keyed cithara. |
| He sang and performed on the cithara but also encouraged members of the upper classes to take lessons in singing and dancing. |
| He carried on his back in a box a string taken from the cithara of the Emperor. |
| A cithara being brought, Philothea played one of his favourite songs, accompanied by her voice. |
| Only the long-haired bard Iopas, with his cithara of gold, could sing Your goodness. |
| 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. |
