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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

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ASCAU'LES (ἀσκαύλης). A word coined from the Greek, signifying a bag-piper. (Mart. Epigramm. x. 3. 8.) These men are scarcely to be reckoned amongst the class of professed musicians; for the instrument that they played was peculiar to the peasantry and common people, as is clearly to be inferred from the passage of Martial (l. c.), and from the style and dress of the figure here (Ascaules/1.1) introduced, which is copied from a small bronze figure formerly in the possession of Dr. Middleton, evidently intended to represent a person of the lower classes. The ancient marbles and gems afford other specimens of the same subject.

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    Ascaules/1.1

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