After the Lesbian singer

Explanation

proverb set down for those who carry off second place, from this cause: when the Lacedaemonians were torn by faction, by an oracle from the god they sent for Terpander the musician from Lesbos. He came, and using his music, harmonised their souls and stopped the strife. Whenever, then, after that the Lacedaemonians heard a musician, they would call out, "After the Lesbian singer!" Cratinus mentions this proverb in the Cheirones.