ateas

Updated: May 9, 2025

And do they not hereby make the Scythian king Ateas more musical than this comes to, who, when he heard that admirable flutist Ismenias, detained then by him as a prisoner of war, playing upon the flute at a compotation, swore he had rather hear his own horse neigh?

Plutarch - Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies