Tuba, tubæ f. g. Ci. A trumpet.Clangor tubarum.Virg.Fremitus troces tubæ.Senec.Sonitus tubæ. Author ad Heren. Sonitus fracti tubarum. Vir. Acres tubæ.Stat.Canora tuba.Ouid. Sæua Silius. Clara Vir. Stridentes tubæ Lucan. Tuba ductilis.A brasen trumpet.Fera.Ouid. Terribiles. Ouid.Funesta Ouid. Vocales, Senec.
Tubus, tubi, m. g. Cic.A pipe wherein water is conueyghed into a Conduite.Tubos etiam viscerum dicimus. Mart. Cauari in tubos. Pli To be made holow to % form of pipes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tŭba, ae, f. [kindr. with tubus, a tube], a trumpet, esp. a war-trumpet (straight, while the cornu was curved, Acron ad Hor. C. 1, 1, 23). I.Lit.: ille arma misit, cornua, tubas, falces, Cic. Sull. 5, 17: tubae et signa militaria, id. Cat. 2, 6, 13: at tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 842 P. (Ann. v. 452 Vahl.); imitated by Verg. A. 9, 503: tubae utrimque canunt, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 73: signum tubā dare, Caes. B. G. 2, 20; so id. ib. 7, 81; id. B. C. 3, 46; 3, 90; Liv. 29, 27, 5 al.; cf. also Caes. B. G. 7, 47; Hirt. B. G. 8, 20: non tuba directi, non aeris cornua fiexi, Ov. M. 1, 98; Tac. A. 1, 68; Luc. 4, 750; 6, 130; 7, 477; Sil. 5, 12 al.; v. Veg. Mil. 3, 5.—Apart from military purposes, it was used on various occasions, as at religious festivals, games, funerals, etc., Varr. L. L. 6, 14 Müll.; Ov. F. 1, 716; Verg. A. 5, 113; Juv. 10, 214; Stat. S. 3, 1, 139 al.; cf. tubus, II. A.; Verg. A. 11, 192; Ov. H. 12, 140; Hor. S. 1, 6, 44; Pers. 3, 103; cf. Atei. Capito ap. Gell. 20, 2, 3.—B.Transf.1.A signal for war, war, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 64; id. Laud. Stil. 1, 246; Mart. Spect. 28, 2.—2.A loud sound: nimborum, i. e. the roar of thunder, Claud. gigant. 60.—b.Sonorous, elevated epic poetry, Mart. 8, 3, 22; 8, 56, 4; 10, 64, 4; 11, 3, 8; Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 197.—c.A lofty style of speaking, Prud. contr. Symm. 2, 68; Sid. Ep. 4, 3 fin. —II.Trop.: tuba belli civilis, i. e.
tŭbus, i, m., a pipe, tube.I.Lit., for conducting water, Col. 1, 5, 2; Plin. 16, 42, 81, 224; 5, 31, 34, 128.—For wine, Pall. 1, 18, 1.—For heating baths, Sen. Ep. 90, 25.—II.Transf.A. For tuba, a trumpet used at sacrifices, acc. to Varr. L. L. 5, 117 Müll., and Verr. Kalend. Praenest. s. 23 Mart. (Inscr. Orell. II. p. 386).—B.Transf.: per omnes viscerum tubos, Mart. 11, 61, 6.