Flute-players
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
flute-player · flute-girl · flute-players · good players
in the texts
Against Meidias
Musical performers connected to festival choruses and one later assault example.
for instance, men of Athens, the Chairman for the day who is said to have been struck by Polyzelus in your court, the judge who was lately struck when trying to rescue the flute-girl, and similar cases.
Two years ago the tribe of Pandionis had failed to appoint a chorus-master, and when the Assembly met at which the law directs the Archons to assign the flute-players by lot to the choruses, there was a heated discussion and mutual recrimination between the Archon and the overseers of the tribe.
and if Telephanes, the flute-player, had not proved the staunchest friend to me, if he had not seen through the fellow’s game and sent him about his business, if he had not felt it his duty to train the chorus and weld them into shape himself, we could not have taken part in the competition, Athenians;
Memorabilia
Flute-players, used as an illustrative professional example of how an incompetent person who imitates the trappings of skilled practitioners without true ability exposes himself to ridicule.
Suppose a bad flute-player wants to be thought a good one, let us note what he must do.