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ASKAULES (Gr. ewKauXrls [?] from avxor, bag, ai'Xos, pipe)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 762 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ASKAULES (Gr. ewKauXrls [?] from avxor, bag, ai'Xos, 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-pipe) has been found in
Greek
  classical authors, though J. J. Reiskein a
note
  on Dio Chrysostom, Oral. lxxi. ad fin., where an unmistakable description of the bag-pipe occurs (" and they say that he is skilled to write, to
work
  as an artist, and to
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 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 Athenaeus (Deipnos. iv. 76) in their lists of the various kinds of pipes.
See articles Aunos and BAG-PIPE; art. "
Askaules
 " in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie.


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