[302] Telestes, in his defence of the flute, could only retort that Athena, being condemned to eternal spinsterhood, ought not to be particular about her looks (Athen. 617).
[303] Aristot. Pol. viii. 6. 11.
[304] Athen. 184 d. Plutarch, however, says that when Alkibiades’ masters tried to make him learn the flute, he refused, declaring that it was unfit for gentlemen (Alk. ii. 5).
[305] Not a respected profession at Athens.
[306] Brit. Mus. E 495, 64, 71.
[307] Athen. 337 f.
[308] Smith’s Dictionary of Antiquities.
[309] φορβεία. It belonged to professionals.
[310] γλωσσοκομεῖον.
[311] See the “Inscription” of the Andria and other plays of Terence.