Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tumulus

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. 

TUM'ULUS (τύμβος). A mound of earth or rough masses of stones (Hom. Il. xxiv. 798.) piled up into a pyramidal form, in order to form a cairn or barrow over the grave. (Cic. Arch. 10.) On its summit a tall column (stele) was usually erected for a monument (Hom. Il. xi. 371.); as exhibited by the annexed illustration (Tumulus/1.1), representing the tumulus of Adonis in a painting at Pompeii. Hence the word is often used in a general sense for a grave or a tomb. Pedo. Albin. El. i. 69. Ib. 73 — 74. Virg. Ecl. v. 42. Ov. Trist. iii. 3. 72.

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