Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), I, Irēné, Ismenias

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Ismenias

（Ἰσμηνίας).

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A celebrated musician of Thebes. When he was taken prisoner by the Scythians, Atheas, the king of the country, observed that he liked the neighing of his horse better than all the music of Ismenias.

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A Theban general, sent to Persia on an embassy by his countrymen. As none were admitted into the king's presence without prostrating themselves at his feet, Ismenias, when he was introduced, dropped his ring, and the motion he made to recover it from the ground being mistaken for the required homage, Ismenias had a satisfactory audience with the monarch (Aelian, V. H. i. 21).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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