Trumpet
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
trumpet
in the texts
On the Mysteries
Instrument used to muster the Knights.
The Knights were to be mustered at the Anaceum by trumpet before nightfall, while the Council would take up its quarters on the Acropolis for the night, and the Prytanes in the Tholus.
Anabasis
Instrument used to signal the attack.
The orders had been to keep their spears on the right shoulder until a signal should be given with the trumpet;
But when the phalanx of the hoplites kept moving on to meet them, marching rapidly, and at the same time the trumpet sounded, and they struck up the paean and after that raised the battle-cry, and at the same moment couched their spears, then the enemy no longer awaited the attack, but took to flight.