The antiquities of Herculaneum . o, in Alcibiade, and from Arijlotle, deRep. viii. 6, that among the Greeks, playing on the flute was one of the arts thatwere learned by their noble youth: though the cuftom, by the influence ofAlcibiades, was afterwards abolifhed in Athens. Thus Gellius, xv. 17. Alcibiades having been educated by his uncle Pericles in all genteel accompliftiments, among others, Antigonidas, a famous mafter on the flute, was fent for to teach him on that inftrument, which was then much in requeft : but, having put the flute to his mouth and blowed, obferving how it diftorted hi
The antiquities of Herculaneum . o, in Alcibiade, and from Arijlotle, deRep. viii. 6, that among the Greeks, playing on the flute was one of the arts thatwere learned by their noble youth: though the cuftom, by the influence ofAlcibiades, was afterwards abolifhed in Athens. Thus Gellius, xv. 17. Alcibiades having been educated by his uncle Pericles in all genteel accompliftiments, among others, Antigonidas, a famous mafter on the flute, was fent for to teach him on that inftrument, which was then much in requeft : but, having put the flute to his mouth and blowed, obferving how it diftorted his face, he threw it away and broke it. When this was noifed abroad, the inftrument went quite out of fafhion among the Athenians. The Mythologies relate, that Minerva did the very famething for the fame reafon. But Arijlotle, in the place quoted above, is of opinionthat Minerva caft oft this inftrument, not fo much becaufe by puffing out her cheeksit made her appear deformed, but rather becaufe this inftrument was not calculated. PLATE XXXI. 131and much ufed among the ancients, are frequently met withevery where ; he is playing upon them both at once [4] : theyhave flops [5], fuch as thefe inftruments are ufually furnifhedwith. The other boy is in a pofture of dancing, or hoppingupon one foot [6], and carries upon his fhoulder a flenderftick or cane [7]. to improve the mind. Plato, de Rep. iii. banifhed it from his republic, becaufe itcarried the mind out of irfelf, and moved the violent paflions. The Romans in ge-neral made no great account of ringing, playing, and dancing, but efteemed themall unworthy of a grave and ferious man, as we obferved a little above.[4} Thus Theocritus : e< A$V 11 And Augujlin, tracl xix. in Joan. ft fi unus flatus inflat duas tibias, non potefl unus fpiritus implere duo corda, fi uno flatu tibiae duae confonant V* And Martial,xiv. 64. : Ebria nos madidis rumpit tibicina buccisy Saepe duas pariter, faepe monaulcn monaulon, or Jin
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