Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tubicen

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. 

TUB'ICEN (σαλπιγκτής). A trumpeter who blows the tuba (Varro, L. L. v. 91. Ov. Met. iii. 705.), as exhibited by the annexed figure (Tubicen/1.1), from a bas-relief on the arch of Constantine. Trumpeters were always included in the brass band of the army (Liv. ii. 64.); amongst the musicians who performed at religious ceremonies (Varro, L. L. v. 117.); and at funeral solemnities (Pers. iii. 103.); whence the expression ad tubicines mittere (Pet. Sat. 129. 7.) means to prepare for death.

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  Tubicen/1.1