salpinx

• “An ancient music critic, Aristides Quintilianus, calls the salpinx “a warlike and terrifying instrument,” “masculine” and “vehement.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Battle of Salamis

• “A golden dolphin, which had been suspended from a beam, and on which the eye of every charioteer was fixed, dropped to the ground, a blast on the 'salpinx', or war-trumpet, was sounded, and forty-eight horses flew forth as though thrown forward by one impulsion.”

  Serapis — Volume 06

• “The salpinx ranged from two and a half to about five feet long: the salpinx was hardly handy, but it was certainly loud.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Battle of Salamis

• “A salpinx from fifth century B.C. Greece has been found: its cylinder consists of thirteen parts made of ivory, while its bell and mouthpiece are made of bronze.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Battle of Salamis

• “Homer compares the sound of the salpinx to the terrible cry of Achilles.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Battle of Salamis

• “The ancient trumpet, or salpinx, was a long, straight, narrow tube flaring into a small bell.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Battle of Salamis

• “He mispronounced quite common words: urticate, salpinx, bordereau.”

  The Shadow of the Torturer

• “The Greek name for the Fallopian tube is salpinx (salpinx in Greek means tube).”

  Woman Her Sex and Love Life

• “An imitation of this wooden torch was undoubtedly the torch-case made of clay or metal in the shape of a salpinx.”

  Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

• “The long-lost sounds of the epigonion, the salpinx and the kithara could be about to form the strangest musical group yet, thanks to the world's largest physics project.”

  Signs of the Times

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