Brewer's: Ismenias

A Theban musician of whom Atheas, King of the Scythians, declared, “I liked the music of Ismenias better than the braying of an ass.” (Plutarch.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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