Χαιριδεῖς

[Meaning those] educated from [= by] Chairis.¹ Or practising [sc. with him]. Chairis [was] an uncultured Theban piper. So Attic [writers] say Chairideis from Chairis and peristerideis from peristera\ ['dove'].² This man used to play his pipes during the sacrifices. He was [sc. also] a kithara-player.³ Aristophanes [writes]: "if Chairis sees you, he will come, to play the pipes uninvited".⁴
And [there is] a proverb: 'Chairis singing in a steep-pitched style'. ⁵ The steep-pitched [is] a style [no/mos] for playing the pipe, so called because it was rising and vigorous.
And Homer [says]: "the goddess [Eris] standing there uttered a great and terrible war-cry rising sharply upwards to the Achaeans".⁶