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a kind of pillar

  • 1 tibicen

    tībīcen, ĭnis, m. [contr. from tībĭĭcen, from tibia-cano], a piper, flute-player, flutist.
    I.
    Lit.:

    age, tibicen, refer ad labias tibias, suffla celeriter tibi buccas,

    Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 41:

    si tibiae non referant sonum, abiciendas sibi tibicen putat,

    Cic. Brut. 51, 192:

    tibicen sine tibiis canere non potest,

    id. de Or. 2, 83, 338; id Leg. 2, 24, 62; id. Ac. 2, 7, 20; id. Dom. 47 123; id. Agr. 2, 34, 93; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 98; id. A. P. 415:

    tibicines abierunt,

    Liv. 9, 30, 5:

    funus celebratum... praecedente tibicine,

    Plin. 10, 43, 60, § 122; Val. Max. 2, 5, 4: transit idem jurisconsultus tibicinis Latini modo, i. e. preludes or rehearses the legal formulas (as the flutist accompanies the actors), Cic. Mur. 12, 26. — Sing. collect.:

    crebro tibicine,

    Cic. Sen. 13, 44. —
    II.
    Transf., a kind of pillar, support, or prop of a building, Cat. 61, 158; Ov. F. 4, 695:

    urbem colimus tenui tibicine fultum,

    Juv. 3, 193. —

    Of Atlas, supporting the heaven,

    Arn. 2, 92; cf.:

    tibicines in aedificiis dici existimantur a similitudine tibiis canentium, qui ut cantantes sustineant, ita illi aedificiorum tecta,

    Fest. p. 366 Müll.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > tibicen

  • 2 prester

    prēster, ēris, m., = prêstêr [burning].
    I.
    A fiery whirlwind, which descends in the form of a pillar of fire, a water-spout, sand-spout:

    presteras Graici quos ab re nominitarunt, etc.,

    Lucr. 6, 424:

    turbo ardentior accensusque dum furit, prester vocatur, amburens contacta pariter, et proterens,

    Plin. 2, 48, 50, § 133: spiritus cum majore vi torti sunt, fit procella terrestris, et a Graecis prester nomen accepit, App. de Mundo, p. 62 fin. —
    II.
    A kind of serpent, whose bite causes a burning thirst:

    prester quem percusserit, distenditur, enormique corpulentiā necatur extuberatus,

    Sol. 27, 32:

    torridus prester,

    Luc. 9, 791; Plin. 20, 20, 81 § 210; 24, 13, 73, § 117.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > prester

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