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|lshtext=<b>tībĭa</b>: ae, f.,<br /><b>I</b> the [[large]] [[shin]]-[[bone]], [[tibia]] (cf. [[sura]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: alterum (os) a priore parte positum, cui tibiae [[nomen]] est, Cels. 8, 1 fin.: et in crure (recedit) [[tibia]] a surā, id. 8, 11.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In gen., the [[shin]]-[[bone]], [[shin]], [[leg]]: posse fieri ut [[genu]] esset aut [[tibia]] aut [[talus]], Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 15: sinistram fregit tibiam, Phaedr. 5, 7, 8. —<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[pipe]], [[flute]] (orig. made of [[bone]]; syn. [[fistula]]): [[age]] [[tibicen]], [[refer]] ad labias tibias, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 41: si tibiae inflatae non referant sonum, Cic. Brut. 51. 192: [[quemadmodum]] [[tibicen]] [[sine]] tibiis canere non possit, id. de Or. 2, 83, 338: et fidibus et tibiis canere, Quint. 1, 10, 14: [[cantus]] tibiarum, id. 1, 11, 7: [[tibia]] digitis pulsata canentum, Lucr. 4, 585: [[modulate]] canentes tibiae, Cic. N. D. 2, 8, 22: septenarios ad tibiam fundere, id. Tusc. 1, 44, 107: ubi curva choros indixit [[tibia]] Bacchi, Verg. A. 11, 737: biforem dat [[tibia]] cantum, id. ib. 9, 618: [[tibia]] non ut [[nunc]] orichalco vincta tubaeque Aemula, sed [[tenuis]] simplexque, Hor. A. P. 202: Phrygio curva [[sono]], Tib. 2, 1, 86: sub cantu querulae tibiae, Hor. C. 3, 7, 30: acris, id. ib. 1, 12, 1: Berecyntia, id. ib. 3, 19, 19; 4, 1, 23: sonante mixtum tibiis [[carmen]] [[lyra]], id. Epod. 9, 5: adunco [[tibia]] [[cornu]], Ov. M. 3, 533: infracto Berecynthia [[tibia]] [[cornu]], id. ib. 11, 16: longa, id. F. 6, 698: [[scienter]] tibiis cantasse, Nep. praef. 1; id. Epam. 2, 1: [[dextera]] [[tibia]] [[alia]] [[quam]] [[sinistra]], perh. [[treble]] and [[bass]] pipes, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 15; cf.: modos fecit [[Flaccus]] Claudii [[filius]]; tibiis paribus dextris et sinistris, i. e. at [[first]] [[with]] a [[pair]] of [[treble]] and [[then]] [[with]] a [[pair]] of [[bass]] pipes, Didasc. Ter. And.; cf.: [[acta]] [[primum]] tibiis imparibus, [[deinde]] duabus dextris, id. Heaut.; v. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 618; and v. Dict. of Antiq. s. v.—Prov.: [[paene]] apertis, ut aiunt, tibiis, from all the holes, [[with]] a [[loud]] [[voice]], Quint. 11, 3, 50 Spald.
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