fides2
fidēs
is,
f
a chord, string (of a musical instrument); hence,
plur, a stringed instrument, lyre, lute, cithern: voces, ut nervi in fidibus, ita sonant, ut, etc.: canorae,
V.: fidibus canere praeclare: fidibus Placare deos, H.:
fidibus discere: fidibusne Latinis Thebanos aptare
modos, i. e. to imitate Pindaric odes, H.—In sing,
a stringed instrument, lyre (poet.): Sume fidem, O.: Teïa, H.: si blandius moderere
fidem, H.—A constellation, the Lyre: clara, C. poët.