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MorphologyDictionary- Bonitz: Index Aristotelicus
- Liddell-Scott-Jones: A Greek-English lexicon
- τύμπᾰνον, τό, also in the form τύπανον (q.v.): (τύπτω):—
kettledrum,
such as was used esp. in the worship of the Mother Goddess and Dionysus, Hdt.4.76, E.HF892; τυμπάνων ἀλαλαγμοί, ἀράγματα, Id.Cyc.65 (lyr.), 205; τύμπανα, Ῥέας τε μητρὸς ἐμά θ' εὑρήματα, says Dionysus, Id.Ba.59, cf. 156 (lyr.), IG42(1).131.9, 10 (Epid.); in Corybantic rites, Ar.V.119; τ. ἀράσσειν, ῥήσσειν, AP6.217 (Simon.), 7.485 (Diosc.); καταυλήσει χρῆται καὶ τυμπάνοισ Sor.2.29. 2. metaph., τύμπανον φυσᾶν, of inflated eloquence, AP13.21 (Theodorid.). II. name of some instrument of torture of execution, Ar. Pl.476 (ξύλα ἐφ' οἷς [ἐν οἷσ Suid.] ἐτυμπάνιζον· ἐχρῶντο γὰρ ταύτῃ τῇ τιμωρίᾳ· ἢ βάκλα, παρὰ τὸ τύπτειν Sch.); τινῶν μὲν εἰς δεσμωτήριον, τινῶν δὲ ἐπὶ τύμπανον ἀπαγομένων S.E.M.2.30; τοὺς ἐκ τυμπάνου καὶ τοὺς ἀνεσκολοπισμένουσ Luc.Cat.6; ἐπὶ τὸ τ. προσῆγε LXX 2 Ma.6.19, cf.28; cf. τύπανον. 2. = tumix, sirimpio
(dub. sens.), Gloss. 3. cudgel,
τὰς πολλὰς ἐπὶ τοῦ νώτου διὰ τῶν τ. πληγάσ Dam.Isid.185; so perh. in LXX ll. cc. III. in a machine, drum,
Hero Bel.86, cf. Orib. 49.4.43; in Verg.G.2.444, tympana
are wagon-wheels made of a solid piece of wood, rollers;
similarly perh. in PLond.1821.204, possibly of the wheel
of an irrigating machine: cf. τυμπάνιον. IV. Archit., the sunken triangular space enclosed by the cornice of the pediment,
Lat. tympanum fastigii,
Vitr.4.7.5; the square panel of a door,
Id.4.6.4.
- William J. Slater: Lexicon to Pindar
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