High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The barbiton, or barbitos (Gr: or ; Lat. barbitus), is an ancient stringed instrument known from Greek and Roman classics related to the lyre. The barbiton (Pers. barbat, barbud) is an unrelated lute-like instrument derived from Persia. The Greek instrument was a bass version of the kithara, and belonged in the zither family, but in medieval times, the same name was used to refer to a different instrument that was a variety of lute. Theocritus (xvi. 45), the Sicilian poet, calls the barbitos an instrument of many strings, i.e. more than seven, which was by the Hellenes considered to be a perfect number, and matched the number of strings customary in the kithara. Pollux (Onomasticon iv. chap. 8, § 59) calls the instrument barbiton or barymite (from , heavy and , a string), an instrument producing deep sounds. The strings were twice as long as those of the pectis and sounded an octave lower.

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