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tympănum , i (collat. form typă-num , Cat. 63, 8 sq.), n., = τύμπανον,
I.a drum, timbrel, tambour, tambourine.
I. Lit.
A. Esp., as beaten by the priests of Cybele, Lucr. 2, 618; Cat. 63, 8 sq.; Verg. A. 9, 619; Ov. M. 3, 537; 4, 29; 4, 391; id. F. 4, 213; Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 38; Caes. B. C. 3, 105; Curt. 8, 11, 20; 8, 14, 10; Tac. H. 5, 5, —Also by the Bacchantine females, Ov. M. 11, 17.—Beaten by the Parthians as a signal in battle in place of the tuba, Just. 41, 2, 8.—
B. Trop., a timbrel, etc., as a figure of something effeminate, enervating: “tympana eloquentiae,” Quint. 5, 12, 21: “in manu tympanum est,” Sen. Vit. Beat. 13, 3.—
II. Transf., of things of a like shape.
A. A drum or wheel, in machines for raising weights, in water-organs, etc., Lucr. 4, 905; Verg. G. 2, 444; Vitr. 10, 4; Plin. 18, 34, 77, § 332; Dig. 19, 2, 19.—
B. In archit.
1. The triangular area of a pediment, Vitr. 3, 3 med.—
2. A panel of a door, Vitr. 4, 6 med.—
3. A part of the clepsydra, called also phellos, Vitr. 9, 9.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.17
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.537
    • Plautus, Poenulus, 5.5
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 9.619
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.444
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 10.4
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    • Caesar, Civil War, 3
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    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.618
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    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, 12.21
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 8.11.20
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 8.14.10
    • Ovid, Fasti, 4
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