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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 762 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASKAULES (Gr. ewKauXrls [?] from avxor, bag, ai'Xos,
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pipe)
  , probably the Greek word for bag-piper, although there is no documentary authority for its use . Neither it nor hoKavXor (which would naturally mean the bag-
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pipe) has been found in Greek classical authors, though J . J . Reiske—in a note on Dio
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Chrysostom, Oral. lxxi. ad fin., where an unmistakable description of the bag-pipe occurs (" and they say that he is skilled to write, to
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work as an artist, and to
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play the pipe with his mouth, on the bag placed under his arm-pits ")—says that haKafAns was the Greek word for bag-piper . The only actual corroboration of this is the use of ascaules for the pure Latin utricularius in Martial x . 3 . 8 . Dio Chrysostom flourished about A.D . 100; it is therefore only an assumption that the bag-pipe was known to the classical Greeks by the name of avKauXor . It need not, however, be a
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matter of surprise that among the highly cultured Greeks such an instrument as the bag-pipe should exist without finding a place in literature . It is significant that it is not mentioned by Pollux (Onomast. iv . 74) and
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Athenaeus (Deipnos. iv .

76) in their lists of the various kinds of pipes . See articles Aunos and BAG-PIPE;

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art . "Askaules" in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie .

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