The solemn Dawn.
Frederick Tennyson.
154
Athenaeus says:—
'The βάρωμος [baromos] and σάρβιτος [sarbĭtos], both of which are mentioned by Sappho and Anacreon, and the Magădis and the Triangles and the Sambūcae, are all ancient instruments.'
Athenaeus in another place, apparently more correctly, gives the name of the first as βάρμος [barmos].
What these instruments precisely were is unknown. Cf. p. [46].
155
Pollux says:—
'Sappho used the word βεῦδος for a woman's dress, a kimberĭcon, a kind of short transparent frock.'