Flavius Josephus, a historian who lived in the first century, records that when news reached Jerusalem of the Roman conquest of Jotapata, in Galilee, and the massacre of its inhabitants in 67 C.E., “many of the mourners hired flute - players to accompany their funeral dirges. ”
दूसरी तरफ, शब्द लीसटीस अकसर ऐसे लोगों के लिए इस्तेमाल किया जाता था जो मार - पीट करके लोगों को लूटते थे ।