Lyra
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“A lyre, one of the most ancient musical instruments of the stringed kind. The Greeks attributed the invention of the lyre to Mercury, who is said to have formed the instrument of a tortoiseshell, over which he placed gut-strings.” — Smith, 1873
Source
William Smith, A School Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1873) 207
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