1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ASKAULES (Gr. aaKaiiXip [?] from aaicos, bag, ovX6s, pipe), probably the Greek word for bag-piper, although there is no documentary authority for its use. Neither it nor aovcauAos (which would naturally mean the bag-pipe) has been found in Greek classical authors, though J. J. Reiske — in a note on Dio Chrysostom, Oral. Ixxi. 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 unde…
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