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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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L&S Lewis & Short (1)
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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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lyre: neut voc sg

• lyron, i, n., = λύρον, a plant, also called alisma, Plin. 25, 10, 77, § 124.
GES Gesner (1)
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Johann Matthias Gesner, Novus Linguae et Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus (1749). Transcribed by the team of Dr. Wilhelm Kühlmann from Heidelberg University; accessed via latin-dict.github.io.
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lyre: neut voc sg

LYRON i. n. Herba. Plin. 25, 10 s. 77 Item Alisma, quam alii Damasonion, alii Lyron appellant. Folia erant plantaginis, nisi angustiora essent etc.
FOR Forcellini (1)
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Egidio Forcellini, Totius Latinitatis Lexicon. Digital entries displayed from lexica.linguax.com, maintained by Godmy. All credit belongs to the respective authors and contributors.
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• lyre:
      1. 1. cĭthăra: Virg.: Hor.: to play on the l., or sing to the l., cithara canere, Plin. 8, 8, 8 § 28 (also, citharīzo, 1: Nep. Ep. 2 = to play): to play on the l. skilfully, uti c. perite, Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 3: to accompany the l. with a song, movere ora vocalia ad c., Ov. M. 5, 332; versus cantare et formare cithara, Plin. Ep. 4, 19, 4.
      2. 2. ly̆ra: the curved l., curva l., Hor.: to sing on the l. the praises of any one, lyra canere laudes alicujus, Ov. A. A. 3, 50. (Note.--Cithara and lyra are Greek words: they originally indicated the same instrument: on their subsequent difference, v. Dict. of Ant. 721.)
      3. 3. fĭdes, ium, f. (orig. gut-strings: the pure Lat. word): sing. fides, is, f. (only poet.): to play on the l., or sing to the l., fidibus canere, Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4; fidibus uti, ib. 5, 39, 113; fidibus cantare (alicui), Pl. Epid. 3, 4, 64: to learn to play on the l., discere fidibus, Cic. Sen. 8, 26: to teach a person to play on the l., aliquem fidibus docere, id. Fam. 9, 22, 3: to know how to play on the l., fidibus scire, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 53. (Note.--In these three last examples, there is an ellipsis of canere.)
      4. 4. barbĭtos, m. and f. (poet.: only in nom., acc., and voc.): Hor.: Ov.
      5. 5. testūdo, ĭnis, f. (because made of or having the shape of a tortoise-shell: poet.): Virg.: Hor. (In Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144, testudo is the shell or "sounding-board.")
      6. 6. meton. plectrum (prop. the stick with which the player struck the l.): to play on an ivory l., plectro modulari eburno, Tib. 3, 4, 39: Hor.---- A player on the:
      7. 1. fĭdĭcen, ĭnis, m. (the word of most dignity): an eminent player on the l., nobilis f., Cic. Fam. 9, 22: Hor. Fem. fĭdĭcĭna, ae, f.
      8. 2. cĭthărista, m. (rare): Cic. = a (male) player on the l. female do., citharistria, Ter.: also, citharoedus (accompanying the l. with his voice), Cic.: fem. citharoeda: Inscr.
      9. 3. ly̆ristes, ae, m. (rare): Plin. min. The art of playing on the l., ars citharoedica: Suet. Ner. 40.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• LYRE
cithara. To play on the lyre, citharizare (Nep., Epam., 2, 1); cithara canere: to accompany the lyre with a song, carmen formare cithara (Vid: Gierig, Plin., Ep., 4, 19, 1): music of the lyre, chordarum sonus (the sound); ars citharoedica (the art): to sing to the lyre, citharizare et. ad chordarum sonum cantare (Nep., Epam., 2, 1): a player on the lyre, citharista; citharoedus (if he accompany the instrument with his voice); feminine, citharistria; citharoeda (Inscript.).