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.: Teia, H.: si blandius moderere fidem, H.

—A constellation, the Lyre: clara, C. poet.