Eschenburg, J[ohann] J[oachim], 1743-1820. [from old catalog], Fiske, Nathan Welby, 1798-1847, [from old catalog] ed. and tr · Philadelphia, E. C. Biddle · leaf 314
to the tubes, the cornua, the buccince, and the lilui.—The tuba is supposedto have been exactly like our trumpet, running on wider and wider in a direct line tothe orifice.—The comua were bent almost round ; they owe their name and originalto the horns of beasts, put to the same use in the ruder… … 274 ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. crooked.—The litui were a middle kind between the cornua and tubes, being almoststraight, only a little turning in at the top, like the lituits or sacred rod of the augurs ;whence they borrowed their name.—These instruments being all made of brass, theplayers on them went…
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