‘Fistula cui semper decrescit arundinis ordo,
Nam calamus cera jungitur usque minor.’—Tibullus II. v. 31.
[150] This, however, may be connected with the Croatian word Fuk, which is used to express the howling of the wind, the whirring of birds’ wings and other sounds, and can hardly be a derivative from Fistula.
[151] γαμήλιον αὔλημα. See Chappell, ‘History of Music,’ vol. i. p. 277.
[152] Chappell, loc. cit. p. 301.
[153] See Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen.
[154] Venice strove to make the connection political; from 1115 to 1358 A.D. her Doges maintained the title of Dukes of Croatia.
[155] Vuk Karadjić was not a Croat, but a Serb.
[156] Called by Germans and Germanizers, Carlstadt.