Ismenias

For if Ismenias played the flute among you, or Timotheus the ancient sang, or Arion, at whose singing on the sea they say the dolphins came to the ship, and afterward, when he had fallen overboard by some chance, took him up and saved him, how would you be disposed?

that the players at funerals were called flute-players.

So Timocrates went and gave his money, at Thebes to Androcleidas, Ismenias, and Galaxidorus;

Now since the Thebans were divided by factions, it chanced that Ismenias and Leontiades, who were polemarchs, were at variance with one another, and both of them leaders of their respective political clubs.

When these things had been accomplished, they chose another polemarch in place of Ismenias, but Leontiades proceeded at once to Lacedaemon.

Do you know, said I, to whom I think the saying belongs—this statement that it is just to benefit friends and harm enemies?