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lĭtĭcen

lĭtĭcen · m

a clarionblower, trumpeter

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What it meant

1. lĭtĭcen — Lewis & Short

lĭtĭcen, ĭnis, m.lituus-cano,

I a clarionblower, trumpeter: tubicines a tuba et canendo, similiter liticines, Varr. L. L. 5, § 91 Müll.: liticines et tubicines, Cato ap. Gell. 20, 2: notus Hectoris armis, i. e. Misenus, Stat. S. 4, 7, 19; Inscr. Orell. 4105.

2. liticen — Walde–Hofmann

liticen, -cinis m. „Zinkenbläser (seit Cato) ist analogisch nach corni-, tubicen gebildet (Ernout-Meillet 529), nicht aus "Utui-cen (*Hitti-cen) mit Vereinfachung von tt nach lituus (Stolz HG.1383) oder von ty wie in promiscam (Ernout Mél. Vendryes 150). — Walde-P. 1 158. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. liticen, p. 848]

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