Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient music, a flute-player.
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- noun harvest flies
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This cicada I photographed last summer has finally been identified on BugGuide. net as Tibicen tibicen or T. chloromera or T. davisi.
Archive 2009-03-01 AYDIN 2009
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It starts with a quote from Festus, 403 which equates Latin tibicen 'flute player' with an alleged Etruscan word subulō 'flute player'.
Archive 2010-07-01 2010
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It starts with a quote from Festus, 403 which equates Latin tibicen 'flute player' with an alleged Etruscan word subulō 'flute player'.
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This cicada I photographed last summer has finally been identified on BugGuide.net as Tibicen tibicen or T. chloromera or T. davisi.
Multifarious gallimaufry of odds and ends AYDIN 2009
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The moment Metellus Pius had clearly enunciated the last syllable of his prayer, a collective sigh of relief went up, loud enough to be heard above the sad tweetling of the tibicen.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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Like a Roman tibicen, the performer takes them into his mouth, and inflates the whole at once with such an acquired skill that most of them can keep on for a couple of hours without a moment's intermission, appearing to breathe and play simultaneously.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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"Tibicen" was, of course, not a violin, but species of pipe among the ancients; the Egyptians were not famous for their performances upon this instrument, if they were acquainted with the "tibicen" at all.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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For a specimen of a Roman “tibicen” or “piper,” see the last scene of the Stichus of Plautus.
The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847
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This cicada I photographed last summer has finally been identified on BugGuide. net as Tibicen tibicen or T. chloromera or T. davisi.
SNAIL'S TALES 2009
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_tibicen_, as he steps forth to render the overture, is greeted uproariously as an old favorite.
The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916
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