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‖ diaulos Gr. Antiq.|daɪˈɔːlɒs|
[Gr. δίαυλος double pipe, channel, or course, f. δι- (di-2) + αὐλός pipe.]
1. A double course, in which the racers turned round a goal and returned to the starting point.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Diaulon, a kind of Race among the Ancients, two furlongs in length, at the end of which they return'd back along the same Course. a1859De Quincey Post. Wks. (1891) I. 165 Eight days for the diaulos of the journey. 1884R. C. Jebb in Encycl. Brit. XVII. 766 (Olympia) Beside the foot-race in which the course was traversed once only, there were now the diaulos or double course and the long foot-race.
2. An ancient Greek musical instrument; the double flute. |