flute-players

The Lacedaemonians moved slowly and to the music of many flute-players, who were stationed in their ranks, and played, not as an act of religion, but in order that the army might march evenly and in true measure, and that the line might not break, as often happens in great armies when they go into battle.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

And so they fell to levelling the fortifications and walls with much enthusiasm, to the accompaniment of female flute-players, deeming that day the beginning of liberty to

Hellenica 2007

Or could I, by a string of questions about flute-players, painters, and the like, induce you to believe that you yourself know how to play the flute, or paint, and so forth?

Oeconomicus 2007

Socrates: But, perhaps you mean that they rule over flute-players, who lead the singers and use the services of the dancers?

The First Alcibiades 2006

Did ever any man believe in horsemanship, and not in horses? or in flute-playing, and not in flute-players?

The Apology 2006

But what do you say to flute-makers and flute-players?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Nenila Makarievna, for her part, used to inform visitors that her husband played the flute, and that all flute-players always let the beard grow under the lower lip; they could hold their instrument more comfortably.

The Jew and other stories 2006

Cyrenaics too, though they are no longer “clothed in purple, and crowned with flowers, and fond of drink and of female flute-players.”

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

After this they joined battle, the Argives and their allies advancing with haste and fury, the Lacedaemonians slowly and to the music of many flute-players — a standing institution in their army, that has nothing to do with religion, but is meant to make them advance evenly, stepping in time, without break their order, as large armies are apt to do in the moment of engaging.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

The frame of government which Numa formed was democratic and popular to the last extreme, goldsmiths and flute-players and shoemakers constituting his promiscuous, many-colored commonalty.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003