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 rowers and to mark the time. Special names were given to each variety of flute-players and their instrumentsFetis mentions thirty-sevenaccording to their special employment. Thus players at funerals were called "Tumbauloi," "Paratretes," or "Siticenes," and in order to check extravagance it was found necessary to limit their number to ten. Those employed at weddings were termed "Hymeneemes"; the horse-keeper's laurel flute was called "Hippophoiboi"; the sailor's flute was "Trierikos." Others again were named after the country whence they originatedthe Lybian flute, the Berecythian or Phrygian flute, etc.