ASKAULES, probably the Greek word for bag-piper, al though there is no documentary authority for its use. Neither it nor aaKavXos (which would naturally mean the bag-pipe) has been found in Greek classical authors, though J. J. Reiske—in a note on Dio Chrysostom, Orat. lxxi. ad fin., where an unmistak able description of the bag-pipe occurs ("and they say that he is skilled to write, to work as an artist, and to play the pipe with his mouth, on the bag placed under his arm-pits")--says that ?u KatAns was so used.