An Eolian harp. A box fitted with strings, like a fiddle. The strings, however, are not sounded by a bow, but by a current of air or wind passing over them.
“Awake, Eolian harp, awake,
And give to rapture all thy trembling strings.”
Gray: Progress of Poetry, lines 1, 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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