The corpus record — Latin

tubus

tubus · m

a pipe

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Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

tŭbus — Lewis & Short

tŭbus, i, m.,

I a pipe, tube.

I Lit., for conducting water, Col. 1, 5, 2; Plin. 16, 42, 81, § 224; 5, 31, 34, § 128.—For wine, Pall. 1, 18, 1.—For heating baths, Sen. Ep. 90, 25.—

II Transf.

A For tuba, a trumpet used at sacrifices, acc. to Varr. L. L. 5, § 117 Müll., and Verr. Kalend. Praenest. s. 23 Mart. (Inscr. Orell. II. p. 386).—

B Transf.: per omnes viscerum tubos, Mart. 11, 61, 6.

Where it came from

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