Quotes About Cithern

Her statue, glorious in majesty, Stood naked, floating on a vasty sea, And from the navel down there were a mass Of green and glittering waves as bright as glass. In her right hand a cithern carried she And on her head, most beautiful to see, A garland of fresh roses, while above There circles round her many a flickering dove.

Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.