tympanum: Difference between revisions

{{Lewis

|lshtext=<b>tympănum</b>: i (collat. form typă-num, Cat. 63, 8 sq.), n., = [[τύμπανον]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[drum]], timbrel, tambour, tambourine.<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</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.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of things of a [[like]] [[shape]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In archit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The triangular [[area]] of a [[pediment]], Vitr. 3, 3 med.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A panel of a [[door]], Vitr. 4, 6 med.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[part]] of the [[clepsydra]], called also [[phellos]], Vitr. 9, 9.

}}