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  • In the following point also the Lacedemonians resemble the Egyptians; that is to say, their heralds and fluteplayers and cooks inherit the crafts of their fathers, and a fluteplayer is the son of a fluteplayer, a cook of a cook, and a herald of a herald; other men do not lay hands upon the office because they have loud and clear voices, and so shut them out of it, but they practise their craft by inheritance from their fathers.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • I iz a mom/retired orchestral fluteplayer, livved in Rich Mond VA for 31 yrs an nao in TTTidewater VA.

    i haz a mad. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music?

    Moses and the Shepherd (Rumi) Sam Norton 2006

  • Then the user of them must have the greatest experience of them, and he must indicate to the maker the good or bad qualities which develop themselves in use; for example, the fluteplayer will tell the flute-maker which of his flutes is satisfactory to the performer; he will tell him how he ought to make them, and the other will attend to his instructions?

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • Crates, the celebrated Cynic philosopher, got such a box on the ear from Nicodromus, the musician, that his face swelled up and became black and blue; whereupon he put a label on his forehead, with the inscription, Nicodromus fecit, which brought much disgrace to the fluteplayer who had committed such a piece of brutality upon the man whom all Athens honored as a household god. 51 And in a letter to

    The Wisdom of Life 2004

  • But strictly it is not the cause-without qualification-of anything; for instance, a housebuilder is the cause of a house; incidentally, a fluteplayer may be so.

    Physics Aristotle 2002

  • So he withdrew and ceased to prize them; the camel died forgotten, and the parti-coloured man became the reward of Thespis the fluteplayer for a successful after-dinner performance.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • Nothing was heard save an occasional word of command, and the signal whistles of the fluteplayer who directed the rowers.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • You know that the people called him the 'fluteplayer.'

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • You know that the people called him the 'fluteplayer.'

    Cleopatra — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

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