I.v. the foll.), f. tego, tiles, roof-tiles, a tiled roof (class.; cf. imbrex).
(α).
Plur.: “tempestas venit, confringit tegulas imbricesque,” Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 28; so, “with imbrices,” id. Mil. 2, 6, 24; “with tectum,” id. Rud. prol. 78: “heus, quid agis tu inquam in tegulis?” id. Mil. 2, 2, 22; so, “in tegulis,” id. ib. 2, 2, 1; 2, 2, 5; 2, 3, 13; “2, 3, 37: anguis per impluvium decidit de tegulis,” Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 26: “per alienas tegulas Venisse,” id. Eun. 3, 5, 40: “per tegulas demitti,” Cic. Phil. 2, 18, 45: “demptis tegulis,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50, § 119: “per scalas pervenisse in tegulas,” Liv. 36, 37, 2: “habitare sub tegulis,” Suet. Gram. 9: “columbaria qui in tegulis habent,” Varr. R. R. 3, 7 fin.; Dig. 19, 1, 58; 39, 2, 24: “TEGVLAS AENEAS AVRATAS D. S. D.,” Inscr. Orell. 3272 et saep.—
(β).
Sing.: “promitto tibi, si valebit, tegulam illum in Italiā nullam relicturum,” not a tile, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 5: “cum solem nondum prohibebat et imbrem Tegula,” Ov. A. A. 2, 622; id. F. 6, 316; id. Ib. 304; Bibacul. ap. Suet. Gram. 11; Mart. 7, 36, 4; Juv. 3, 201 (but the true read., Sen. Ep. 12, 5, is regula, Haase).
