Macrob.Sat.ii.10, et al.).
The prohibition of music in 639 exempted only the "Latin player on the pipe along with the singer," not the player on the lyre, and the guests at meals sang only to the pipe (Cato in Cic.Tusc.i.2, 3; iv.
2, 3; Varro ap.
Nonium, v.
-assa voce-; Horace, Carm.iv.15, 30).