A timbrel, taber, or drunstade. Caua rympana ferire. Ouid. To play on tabers. Impulsa palmis tympana. Ouid. Leue tympanum, Catul. Rauca tympana quatere. Ouid. Resonantia tympana. Sil. Sæua tympana. Hor. Cruel drunsiades. Taurina rympana. Claud. Made of ore hydes. Sonus virilis tympani. Sen. Adhibere tympanum, Vide ADHIBEO. Dare tympana eloquentiæ. Quint. Reboant tympana. Catul. The drums sound aloud. Remugit tympanum. Catul. Tenta tympana. Lucrer. Inania tympana tundere. Ouid. Tympanum. Vir. The couer or corse of a chariote: a chariote it selfe: or as other wil, the strake of a cart wheele. Tympanum. Luc. A great wheele that men go in, to drawe vp things of great waight. Tympanum. Plin. A certaine fashion of platters or broade vessel. Tympanum etiam machina haustoria dicitur, quæ dum versatur, aquarn adneis multis modiolis haurit, & iterÛ circumactu defundit.

I. Lit.

A. 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.—

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.—

II. Transf., of things of a like shape.

A. 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.—

B. In archit.

1. The triangular area of a pediment, Vitr. 3, 3 med.—

2. A panel of a door, Vitr. 4, 6 med.—

3. A part of the clepsydra, called also phellos, Vitr. 9, 9.