Athenaeus, Sophists at Dinner 4.77 (175d-e)
M = reading of the whole MS tradition
m = reading of part of the MS tradition
P = reading on a papyrus
m = reading of part of the MS tradition
P = reading on a papyrus
τοῦτο δὲ τὸ ὄργανον Νεάνθης ὁ Κυζικηνὸς ἐν α‘ α‘ M : πρώτῳ Olson Ὥρων εὕρημα εἶναι λέγει Ἰβύκου τοῦ Ῥηγίνου ποιητοῦ, ὡς καὶ Ἀνακρέοντος τὸ βάρβιτον.
But Neanthes of Cyzicus, in his first book of annals, says that the poet Ibycus of Rhegium invented that instrument [the sambuca], just as Anacreon did the barbiton.
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