salpinx

The newspaper Salpinx was published at the same time.

References to the salpinx are found frequently in Greek literature and art.

When encountered in Greek art and literature, the salpinx is usually depicted as being played by a soldier.

In anatomical contexts, salpinx is used to refer to a type of tube.

He explains that each command to troops was given using specific tones or "melodies" played on the salpinx.

During the march, one of the trumpeters plays an ancient Greek instrument called a salpinx.

It is suggested here that the salpinx may have found use in festive occasions as well as war.

This is why the salpinx was primarily used before battle to summon men to prepare for battle and to sound the charge.

This overprint was applied at the print shop of the newspaper Salpinx ("Trumpet").

He was noted particularly for his size, voracity and loudness of his trumpet (salpinx).

Its origin is thought to be Etruscan, and it is similar to the Greek salpinx.

Unlike Haliclystus salpinx, L. cruxmelitensis does not have tentacle anchors.

The salpinx sounded "Advance!"

Clypeostoma salpinx is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae.

Gulella salpinx is ovoviviparous.

Another more universal function of the salpinx was to use it as a means of bringing silence to a rambunctious crowd or at a large gathering.

Salpiglossis derives from the Greek for "trumpet" (salpinx) and "tongue" (glossa).

Fallopian Tubes are also known as oviducts, uterine tubes, and salpinges (singular salpinx).

The war-trumpet used by the ancient Greeks was called the salpinx, and was probably adapted from the Egyptian sheneb.

Though similar to the Roman tuba, the salpinx was shorter than the approximately 1.5 meter long Roman tuba.

Similar instruments can be found in Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt, though the salpinx is most closely related to the Egyptian version.

The Greek playwright Aeschylus described the sound of the salpinx as "shattering"; the word salpinx is thought to mean "thunderer".

The trumpet is found in many early civilizations and therefore makes it difficult to discern when and where the long, straight trumpet design found in the salpinx originated.

The salpinx as an Etruscan invention is thus supported by the Greeks and various descriptions can be found among the authors Aeschylus, Pollux, and Sophocles.

When the trumpeters had blown the salpinx and its mind-numbing wail sounded the call to still the slaughter, even the rawest untrained eye could read the field like a book.