Ἀρχαῖον τὸ κιθαρίζειν

kithara-playing [is] old-fashioned

Translated by Jennifer Benedict11 Apr 2001Vetting: high8 revisions

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That is, worthy of no account, silly, senseless.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀρχαῖον τὸ κιθαρίζειν· τουτέστιν οὐδενὸς λόγου ἄξιον, ληρῶδες, ἀνόητον.

Betacode

*)arxai=on to\ kiqari/zein: toute/stin ou)deno\s lo/gou a)/cion, lhrw=des, a)no/hton.

Aristophanes, Clouds 1357 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there.
For the fundamental distinction between kithara (kappa 1590) or box-lyre and the various kinds of bowl-lyre, see M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 48-70.