. The life of the Greeks and Romans. y the sound of an Argive salpinx Agyrtes rousesthe warlike spirit of Achilles, hidden amongst the women ofDeidameia in the isle of Skyros (Fig. 243, taken from a marble p 210 THE SALPINX. relief), while Pioniedes and Odysseus display shining weapons tothe young hero. Of other trumpets and horn-like instrumentsascribed by Greek authors to Oriental nations, but not to theGreeks themselves, we mention the Egyptian yvom, used to callthe people to the sacrifice ; it resembled the curved salpinx(aaKtruy^ arpoyyvXi]), the cornu of the Romans (Fig. 245). Wefurther
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. y the sound of an Argive salpinx Agyrtes rousesthe warlike spirit of Achilles, hidden amongst the women ofDeidameia in the isle of Skyros (Fig. 243, taken from a marble p 210 THE SALPINX. relief), while Pioniedes and Odysseus display shining weapons tothe young hero. Of other trumpets and horn-like instrumentsascribed by Greek authors to Oriental nations, but not to theGreeks themselves, we mention the Egyptian yvom, used to callthe people to the sacrifice ; it resembled the curved salpinx(aaKtruy^ arpoyyvXi]), the cornu of the Romans (Fig. 245). Wefurther name the trumpet called the Galatian, bronze, or shrill(6i;v(f)u)vos) salpinx, with a leaden mouthpiece and a kodon in theshape of an animals mouth ; by the Galatian Celts it was calledKapvv$~> The Paphlagonian trumpet was low-toned (fiapixpwvos),and larger than the Greek salpinx; from its kodon, bearing theshape of a bulls head, it was called fioivos. The Medes useda hollow-sounding salpinx, made of a bulrush, with a wide Fig. 242. Fig. 243. Fig. 244. This Median trumpet seems to be depicted in two vase-paintings ;in one of them (Micali, Lltalia avanti il dominio dei Eomani,Atlas, Tav. 100) we see an Asiatic archer, in a Median orParthian dress, blowing on a very thin, long tube, with ascrewed-on mouthpiece, which he has fastened to his mouth bymeans of a bandage in the manner of an aulos-plaver; the other(Gerhard, Griechische Yasenbilder, Part II., PI. 103) shows thesame instrument in the hands of the Amazon Antiope clad inGreek armour. It appears from the position of both these figuresthat this instrument was turned towards the ground on beingplayed, differing in this from the Greek trumpet. We finallymention the Tyrrhenian bronze trumpet, the kodon of which wasbent upwards {kwcwv KeKKaufxevos) ; it was also called the curved WATER-ORGAN. 21 I or Etruscan lituus (Xirvov), and resembled, in its shape, thePhrygian pipe (compare Fig. 241, i) ; it was used as a signal
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