tympano
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tympanum, tympani:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
small drum or like (used in worship of Cybele/Bacchus); revolving cylinder;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...furibunda simul anhelans vaga vadit animam agens comitata tympano Attis per opaca nemora dux, veluti iuvenca vitans onus..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Galli resistentesque pertinacius occiderant L. Postumium quaestorem, cui Tympano fuit cognomen, et M. Atinium et P. Sempronium praefectos..."