| The lyra was the instrument of the amateur, the kithara, of the professional singer. |
| The kithara was apparently of Asiatic origin, the lyra either indigenous or of Syrian provenance. |
| Greek lyres fell into two types, exemplified by the lyra and kithara. |
| In medieval Europe new varieties of lyre emerged that, like the kithara, were box lyres, although their precise relation to the lyres of classical antiquity is not known. |
| The most probable is the latest by Petersen, which represents him as playing the kithara. |
| Young Lucius plucked a mournful dirge on the kithara and soon Drusus broke out his aulos. |
