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Babys

3. A flute-player, who gave occasion to the proverb against bad flute-players, " He plays worse than Babys." (Athen. 14.624b.; comp. Zenob. 4.81.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.