- τύμπανον
- τύμπᾰνον, τό, also in the form [full] τύπανον (q.v.): ([etym.] τύπτω):—A kettledrum, such as was used esp. in the worship of the Mother Goddess and Dionysus, Hdt.4.76, E.HF892; τυμπάνων ἀλαλαγμοί, ἀράγματα, Id.Cyc.65 (lyr.), 205; τύμπανα, Ῥέας τε μητρὸς ἐμά θ' εὑρήματα, says Dionysus, Id.Ba.59, cf. 156 (lyr.), IG42(1).131.9, 10 (Epid.); in Corybantic rites, Ar.V.119; τ. ἀράσσειν, ῥήσσειν, AP6.217 (Simon.), 7.485 (Diosc.);
καταυλήσει χρῆται καὶ τυμπάνοις Sor.2.29
.2 metaph., τύμπανον φυσᾶν, of inflated eloquence, AP13.21 (Theodorid.).II name of some instrument of torture of execution, Ar. Pl.476 (ξύλα ἐφ' οἷς [ἐν οἷς Suid.
] ἐτυμπάνιζον· ἐχρῶντο γὰρ ταύτῃ τῇ τιμωρίᾳ· ἢ βάκλα, παρὰ τὸ τύπτειν Sch.);τινῶν μὲν εἰς δεσμωτήριον, τινῶν δὲ ἐπὶ τύμπανον ἀπαγομένων S.E.M.2.30
;τοὺς ἐκ τυμπάνου καὶ τοὺς ἀνεσκολοπισμένους Luc.Cat.6
;ἐπὶ τὸ τ. προσῆγε LXX 2 Ma.6.19
, cf.28; cf. τύπανον.2 = tumix, sirimpio (dub. sens.), Gloss.3 cudgel,τὰς πολλὰς ἐπὶ τοῦ νώτου διὰ τῶν τ. πληγάς Dam.Isid.185
; so perh. in LXX ll. cc.III in a machine, drum, Hero Bel.86, cf. Orib. 49.4.43; in Verg.G.2.444, tympana are wagon-wheels made of a solid piece of wood, rollers; similarly perh. in PLond.1821.204, possibly of the wheel of an irrigating machine: cf. τυμπάνιον.IV Archit., the sunken triangular space enclosed by the cornice of the pediment, Lat. tympanum fastigii, Vitr.4.7.5; the square panel of a door, Id.4.6.4.
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