Pythaulēs (m)
original: πυθαύλης (ὁ) [?]
bagpipe term also used for other aerophones
Usually spelt Pythaules; Mentioned in Baines; Flood, who fails to reveal his source(s), dubiously claims that "some writers call the instrument [i.e. the bagpipe!] pythaulus [sic], which is almost the same as askaulos"; A pythaules is also mentioned in Lucius Annæus Seneca (ca. 4 BC-65 AD), »Epistulæ morales ad Lucilium«, v.76 (ca. 62 AD), and thought by some to mean "piper"; In the 1920 translation by R.M. Gummeri, however, the term is translated as "flute-player"; According to Julius Pollux [or Baines?], Greek πυθαύλης would mean "Pythic athlete".
Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.64 (Pythaules).
Flood, Wm. H. [William Henry] Grattan: The story of the bagpipe. London, 1911, p.16 (Pythaulus).
Maccari di Cortona, (Signor Canonico) Orazio: Dissertazione […] sopra un’ antica Statuetta di Marmo, rappreſentante un Suonator di Cornamusa; del Muſeo del Sign. Marcheſe D. Marcello Venuti. Appendix IV. In: Walker, Historical memoirs of the Irish bards, I (1786), p.42 (Pythavles); p.43-47 (Pythaules: passim).
Maccari di Cortona, (Signor Canonico) Orazio: Dissertazione […] sopra un’ antica statuetta di marmo, rappresentante un suonator di cornamusa; del Museo del Sign. Marchese D. Marcello Venuti (Appendix X in the 1818 edition of Walker’s »Historical memoirs…« [NB: Identical text in modern script, with a different lay-out]); (Dissertation on an ancient marble statue of a bagpiper). In: Utriculus XI (43), luglio/settembre 2007, p.15 (Pythavles); p.17-29 (Pythaules: passim).
Seneca, Lucius Annæus: Ad Lucilium epistulæ morales, I-III. With an English translation by Richard M. Gummere, Ph.D. London/New York, MCMXX [1920], vol. 2, p.148.
Pitiscus, Samuele: Spitisci Lexicon Antiquitatum Romanarum. Hagæ – Comitum, MDCCXXXVII [i.e. in 's-Gravenhage (The Hague), 1737], p.225.
Lacroix, Paul & Seré, Ferdinand: Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, histoire et description… en Europe, IV (Paris, 1851), deuxième partie; Instruments de musique, p.iv.
Utriculus, nuova serie XVI (54), II semestre 2017, Miscellanea zampognara, p.87-88: “Chevrelle, chièvre, chevrie, cabretta” (»Lacroix/Seré).