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See also:ASKAULES (Gr. ewKauXrls [?] from avxor, bag, ai'Xos, See also:pipe) , probably the See also:Greek word for bag-See also:piper, although there is no documentary authority for its use . Neither it nor hoKavXor (which would naturally mean the bag-See also:pipe) has been found in Greek classical authors, though J . J . See also:Reiske—in a See also:note on Dio See also:Chrysostom, Oral. lxxi. ad fin., where an unmistakable description of the bag-pipe occurs (" and they say that he is skilled to write, to See also:work as an artist, and to See also:play the pipe with his mouth, on the bag placed under his See also: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 See also:Martial x . 3 . 8 . Dio Chrysostom flourished about A.D . 100; it is therefore only an See also:assumption that the bag-pipe was known to the classical Greeks by the name of avKauXor . It need not, however, be a See also:matter of surprise that among the highly cultured Greeks such an See also:instrument as the bag-pipe should exist without finding a See also:place in literature . It is significant that it is not mentioned by See also:Pollux (Onomast. iv . 74) and See also:Athenaeus (Deipnos. iv . 76) in their lists of the various kinds of pipes . See articles Aunos and BAG-PIPE; See also:art . "See also:Askaules" in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie . |
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