[2624] The “yoke reed,” or “reed for a double flute.”
[2625] Perhaps so called from the silkiness of its flossy pinicules.
[2626] This seems to be the meaning of “ad inclusos cantus.”
[2627] B. xviii. c. 74.
[2628] Lingulis.
[2629] The words “dextræ” and “sinistræ,” denote the treble and the bass flutes; it is thought by some, because the former were held with the right hand, and the latter with the left. Two treble or bass flutes were occasionally played on at the same time.
[2631] These were of the variety Zeugites, previously mentioned.
[2632] Fée suggests, that what he mentions here may not have been a reed at all, but one of the cyperaceous plants, the papyrus, perhaps.
[2633] De Re Rust. c. 6. It was the donax that was thus employed; as it is in France at the present day.