A pipe as well to conneigh water, as an instrument of musitke. The wesel of the throte. A tappe or faucet. A disease or sore growing to a perpetual issue. Scinditur fistula vitiato plumbo. Ouid. A conduit pipe. Angustœ fistulæ. Quint. Eistula. Virg. A flute, pipe, or recorder. Arguta fistula. Virg. Cana. Val. Flac. Dispar septenis fistula cannis. Ouid. Eburneola. Cic. Pastoria. Cic. Garrula. Tibul. Pastoritia. Cic. Iuncta cerâ. Virg. Rustica Ouid. Cum fistula sonum inflare. Cic. Dulci sistula personuere saxa. Hor. Fistula. Plin. An issue whereby sishes breath. Fistula. Plinius. A sore growing to an issue like a pipe. vt, Extrahir fistulis vitia cum sulphure & resioa.

I. In gen., a pipe, tube, e. g. a water-pipe (usually of lead; syn.: tubus, canalis, sypho), Cic. Rab. Perd. 11, 31; Front. Aquaed. 25 sq.; Plin. 2, 103, 106, 224; 31, 6, 31, 58; Ov. M. 4, 122; Inscr. Orell. 3322; 3324; 3892; the wind-pipe and gullet, Plin. 11, 37, 66, 175; Gell. 17, 11, 4; the tubular vessels in the lungs, Plin. 11, 37, 72, 188; in the teeth, id. 11, 37, 62, 163; a hole in a sponge, id. 31, 11, 47, 123 al.; the blow-hole of the whale, id. 9, 7, 6, 19.—

II. In partic.

A. A hollow reed-stalk, a reed, cane, Plin. 12, 22, 48, 106; 19, 5, 23, 66.—

2. Transf.

a. A reed-pipe, shepherd's pipe, pipes of Pan (made of several reeds gradually decreasing in length and calibre), the Greek su/rigc, invented by Pan (syn.: tibia, sura): fistula, cui semper decrescit arundinis ordo: Nam calamus cerā jungitur usque minor, Tib. 2, 5, 31; cf. Verg. E. 2, 32 sq.; Ov. M. 1, 688 sq.; 2, 682; 13, 784; Plin. 7, 56, 57, 204; Hor. C. 4, 1, 24; 4, 12, 10 et al.: eburneola, a pitch-pipe, for giving the tone in which an orator should speak, Cic. de Or. 3, 60, 225 sq.; cf. Quint. 1, 10, 27.— In comic transf.: itaque et ludis et gladiatoribus mirandas e)pishmasi/as sine ulla pastoricia fistula auferebamus, i. e. without being hissed off, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 11.—

b. A writing-reed, Pers. 3, 14.—

B. A sort of ulcer, a fistula, Cels. 2, 8 med.; 5, 12; 7, 4; Plin. 20, 9, 33, 55; 24, 11, 51, 88; Cato, R. R. 157, 14; Nep. Att. 21, 3.—

C. Fistula sutoria, a shoemaker's punch, Plin. 17, 14, 23, 100.—

D. A catheter: aeneae fistulae fiunt, Cels. 7, 26, 1 init.—

E. Fistula farraria, a sort of hand-mill for grinding corn, Cato, R. R. 10, 3; also called fistula serrata, Plin. 18, 10, 23, 97.