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lder, _Imagines_, No. 10, "Amphion," and Philostratus the Younger, _Imagines_, No. 7, "Orpheus," p. 403. [4] Tibullus, _Eleg._ iii. 4. 39. [5] _Le Antichita de Ercolano_, vol. iii. p. 5. [6] _Idem_, vol. iv. p. 201. [7] Thomas Hope, _Costumes of the Ancients_, vol. ii. p. 193; also Edward Buhle, _Die musikalischen Instrumente in den Miniaturen des fruehen Mittelalters_ (Leipzig, 1903), frontispiece. [8] See _De Musica_, ch. vi. [9] See Visconti, _Museo Clementino_, pl. 22, Erato's cithara, and in the same work that of Apollo Citharoedus (fig. 3 above). [10] See _Od._ i. 153, 155; _Il._ xviii. 569-570. In Homer the form is always [Greek: kitharis]. [11] See Pausanias x. 7, Sec. 4 et seq. [12] For a description of the _Nomos Pythikos_ in its relation to Greek music see Kathleen Schlesinger, "Researches into the Origin of the Organs of the Ancients," _Intern. Mus. Ges._ Sbd. ii. (1901), 2, p. 177, and Strabo ix. p. 421. [13] For a discussion of this question see Kathleen Schlesinger, _The Instruments of the Orchestra_, part ii., and especially chapters on the cithara in transition during the middle ages, and the question of the origin of the Utrecht Psalter, in which the evolution of the cithara is traced at some length. CITIUM (Gr. [Greek: Kition]), the principal Phoenician city in Cyprus, situated at the north end of modern Larnaca, on the bay of the same name on the S.E. coast of the island. Converging currents from E. and W. meet and pass seawards off Cape Kiti a few miles south, and greatly facilitated ancient trade. To S. and W. the site is protected by lagoons, the salt from which was one of the sources of its prosperity. The earliest remains near the site go back to the Mycenaean age (c. 1400-1100 B.C.) and seem to mark an Aegean colony.[1] but in historic times Citium is the chief centre of Phoenician influence in Cyprus. That this was still a recent settlement in the 7th century is suggested by an allusion in a list of the allies of Assur-bani-pal of Assyria in 668 B.C. to a King Damasu of Kartihadasti (Phoenician for "New-town"), where Citium would be expected. A Phoenician dedication to "Baal of Lebanon" found here, and dated also to the 7th century, suggests that Citium may have belonged to Tyre. The biblical name Kittim, derived from Citium, is in fact used quite generally for Cyprus as a whole;[2] later also for
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