Although the early history of the bagpipe is still unclear, it seems likely that the instrument was first developed in pre-Christian times in the area that is now known as Iran.[citation needed] It seems likely it was developed from an instrument similar to a hornpipe or shawm and coexisted with them. Indeed in several different piping traditions today the bagpipe is played alongside a shawm-like instrument, in Brittany, Italy, Catalonia, and Istria. Where or when a bag was first attached to one of these instruments is likely to remain a mystery. However, although the Aramaic word sum·pon·yah´ (סומפניה), appearing in Daniel 3:5, 10, and 15, has been translated "dulcimer" (a stringed instrument) and "symphony", modern Bible translations generally render the expression as "bagpipe." Koehler and Baumgartner's Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti Libros gives the meaning "bagpipe" (Leiden 1958, p. 1103). The earliest secular reference to a bagpipe occurs around 400 BC, when Aristophones, the Athenian poet jibed that the pipers of Thebes (an enemy of Athens) blew pipes made of dogskin with chanters made of bone. Several hundred years later, Suetonius described the Roman Emperor Nero as a player of the tibia utricularis in Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Dio Chrysostom who also flourished in the first century, wrote about a contemporary sovereign, probably Nero, who could play a pipe ("aulein") with his mouth as well as with his "arm pit". Nero is reported to have said he would play the bagpipe in public as a penance for not winning a poetry contest.[citation needed] A coin of Nero depicts a bagpipe, according to the 1927 edition of Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. The Romans may have spread the pipes through the Roman Empire, but there is little evidence for this.