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Plausus tantum, ac sola cymbala et tympana, illis canticis desunt.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Luna parens mensum numerosa prole renascens: tu biiugos stellante polos ab Sole gubernas, te redeunte dies fraternus colligit horas; 5 te pater Oceanus renouato respicit amne, te spirant terrae, tu uinclis Tartara cingis; tu sistro resonas, Brimo, tu cymbala quassas;
To the Moon Claudius 1912
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Matthew Paris relates how Frederick's brother-in-law, returning from the Holy Land, rested awhile at his Italian court, and saw, among other diversions, "duas puellas Saracenicas formosas, quae in pavimenti planitie binis globis insisterent, volutisque globis huo illucque ferrentur canentes, cymbala manibus collidentes, corporaque secundum modules motantes atque flectentes."
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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We may gather from the _Priapeia_ (XXVI) that cymbals and castanets were the special accompaniment in antiquity of wanton songs and dances: "_cymbala, cum crotalis, pruriginis arma_."
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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brooklyn tabernacle church celebrating life jim cymbala
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brooklyn tabernacle church celebrating life jim cymbala
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cymbala Thebano concrepuere deo: at nunc inuisae magno cum crimine Baiae,
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Hta melifphylla, et ccrinthae ignobilc gramcn; umitusquc cie, ct Matris quatc cymbala circum: iae confident mcdicatis fedibus} ipfae itima morc fuo fefc ih cunabula condcnt.
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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