Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tympanotriba

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. 

TYMPANOT'RIBA (τυμπανοτρίβης). (Plaut. Truc. ii. 7. 60.) Same as TYMPANISTA; both words conveying a notion of contempt or ridicule, and indicating an effeminate man, like the priests of Cybele, who employed the tympanum at their festivals, though an instrument otherwise more appropriate for females.