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χ171ΧαιριδεῖςChairideis… come, to play the pipes uninvited". And [there is] a proverb: 'Chairis singing in a steep-pitched style'. The steep-pitched [is] a style [no/mos] for playing the pipe, so called because it was rising and …Matched in translationhighmedium

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Χαιριδεῖς

Chairideis

[Meaning those] educated from [= by] Chairis. Or practising [sc. with him]. Chairis [was] an uncultured Theban piper. So Attic [writers] say Chairideis from Chairis and peristerideis from peristera\ ['dove']. This man…

Χαιριδεῖς· ἀπὸ τοῦ Χαίριδος πεπαιδευμένοι. ἢ μελετῶντες. Χαῖρις δὲ αὐλητὴς Θηβαῖος ἄμουσος. οὕτω δὲ λέγουσιν Ἀττικοὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Χαίριδος Χαιριδεῖς καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς περιστερᾶς…