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he inflated style of the creature Out of whose mouth there issues a blast. See drum. The ossea tibia was made of the leg-bone of a crane. Alcides loquitur:— The Alexandrians are especially skillful with the flute; and not only in those kinds called girl's flutes and boy's flutes, but also in men's flutes, which are also called perfect and super-perfect; and also in those which are called harp-flutes, and fingerflutes. For the flutes called elymi, which Sophocles mentions in his Niobe, and in his Drummers, we do not understand to be anything but the common Phrygian flute. And these, too, the Alexandrians are very skillful in. They are also acquainted with the flute with two holes, and also with the intermediate flutes, and with those called hypotreti, or bored underneath. We know of some that are called half-bored, which Anacreon mentions:— What lust has now seized thus upon your mind, To wish to dance to tender half-bored flutes? And these flutes are smaller tha