Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tibicen

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

TIBI'CEN (αὐλητής). A musician who plays on the pipes (tibiae). The pipers formed a corporation at Rome (Inscript. ap. Grut. 175. 10. Val. Max. ii. 5. 4.), where they were held in estimation (Ov. Fast. vi. 6. 57.), and extensively employed in religious festivals and solemnities (Ov. l. c. Cic. Agr. ii. 34. Plin. H. N. xxviii. 3.), at funerals (Id. x. 60.), and on the stage. (Hor. A. P. 215.) The illustration (Tibicen/1.1), from a painting at Pompeii, represents a piper at the theatre, sitting upon the raised altar (thymele) in the orchestra, beating time with his left foot, and draped in the long vest, as described by Horace (l. c.).

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