Usages of cantus
Fidicen ante vestibulum stat et brevem cantum modulatur.
A lyre-player stands before the entrance hall and performs a short song.
Puer dicit se sonitum tibiae magis amare quam cantum chori.
The boy says that he likes the sound of the flute more than the song of the chorus.
Avia tamen respondet cantum sine cithara pulchrum esse posse, sed chorum sine fidicine minus plenum videri.
Grandmother, however, replies that a song can be beautiful without a cithara, but that a chorus seems less full without a lyre-player.
Sic et panis e clibano et cantus in atrio omnibus gratissimi sunt.
Thus both the bread from the oven and the song in the atrium are very pleasing to everyone.
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