Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Spondaules

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SPONDAU'LES (σπονδαύλης). A musician who played an accompaniment upon a pair of long pipes (tibia longa) (Marius Victorin. 1. 2478. Diomed. iii. 472.) to the hymns which were sung at the sacrifice during libation, as shown by the annexed illustration (Spondaules/1.1) from the column of Trajan. The minister (camillus) stands in front of the altar with the incense box (acerra, hence libare acerra), the spondaules with a pair of pipes behind him, and Trajan with a patera on the right side, the left of the group in the original composition being occupied by the popa and the victim.

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  Spondaules/1.1