Flute-girl
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
flute-girl · the other girl
in the texts
Symposium
A hired musician present at the banquet whom Eryximachus proposes to dismiss so the guests can converse instead.
Since it has been resolved, then, said Eryximachus, that we are to drink only so much as each desires, with no constraint on any, I next propose that the flute-girl who came in just now be dismissed:
Symposium
A female musician whose flute-playing accompanies the banquet entertainments.
They now played for the assemblage, the flute-girl on the flute, the boy on the cither;
At that, the other girl began to accompany the dancer on the flute, and a boy at her elbow handed her up the hoops until he had given her twelve.
He had with him a fine flute-girl, a dancing-girl—one of those skilled in acrobatic tricks,—and a very handsome boy, who was expert at playing the cither and at dancing;