[1100]. Sch. Aristoph. Nub. 312.
[1101]. Poll. iv. 70. Sch. Aristoph. Ran. 133. Cf. Raoul Rochette, Cours D’Archéol. p. 136. In lieu of trumpets the Indians, we are told, made use of certain whips, by the flourishing and cracking of which in the air they produced a kind of rude music. These strange sounds were accompanied by the low and terrible roll of their great drums, which still continue to delight the ear of the Hindùs. Suid. v. σάλπιγξ, t. ii. 709. b. For the common form of the trumpet see Gitone, Il Costume, tav. 81. Zoëga, Bassi Rilievi, tav. 9.
[1102]. Poll. iv. 71.
[1103]. Cf. Aristot. Problem. xix. 23.
[1104]. Cf. Philost. Icon. i. 20. p. 794.
[1105]. The borders of this lake must at all times have presented a most picturesque appearance, tufted as they were with thickets of the willow and the eleagnos, while a variety of terrestrial and aquatic plants descended its banks and spread themselves far into the water, as the pipe and the common reed, the white nymphæa, the typha, the phleos, the cyperos, the menyanthos, the icmè, and the ipnon. Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 10. 1.
[1106]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 11. 8. Dioscor. i. 94. The κάλαμος συριγγίας is the Saccharum Ravennæ of Sibthorp, Flora Græca, tab. 52, where it is observed, that it is found “in Peloponneso coprosè; ad littora Ponti Euxini propè Fanar.”
[1107]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 11. 9.
[1108]. The form of the modern pipe is thus described by Chandler, who, after having spoken of the taborer, adds “this was accompanied by a pipe with a reed for the mouth-piece, and below it a circular rim of wood, against which the lips of the player came. His cheeks were much inflated, and the notes so various, shrill, and disagreeable, as to remind me of the composition designed for the ancient Aulos or flute, as was fabled by Minerva.” Travels, &c. i. 49.
[1109]. Cf. Gitone, Il Costume, tav. 65.