flute
object · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
flutes · a flute · musical instruments · organs and strings
spoken of as
1 expressionthe flute“musical instrument”1 mention
Letters to Lucilius (Latin)
The musical instruments belong to the performance, flutes and organs and strings;
in the texts
Republic
Musical instrument used to illustrate the user's superior knowledge over the maker's right belief.
As, for example, the flute-player reports to the flute-maker which flutes respond and serve rightly in flute-playing, and will order the kind that must be made, and the other will obey and serve him.
Letters to Lucilius
Musical instruments used in the philosophical analogy distinguishing the good of an art from the equipment used in its performance.
The musical instruments belong to the performance, flutes and organs and strings;
In music there is something good, such as a flute, or a string, or some instrument fitted to the uses of singing.
'You do not understand in what way we have laid down what is good in music.
Economics
The flute is an object used to illustrate that value depends on competence or the ability to sell.
A flute, for example, is wealth to one who is competent to play it, but to an incompetent person it is no better than useless stones.
For a flute, if not put up for sale, is not wealth, because it is useless:
We now see that to persons who don’t understand its use, a flute is wealth if they sell it, but not wealth if they keep it instead of selling.
Symposium
The instrument that produces the Bacchic music.
Dionysus being still invisible, there was heard the Bacchic music played on a flute.