Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tuba

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. 

TUB'A (σάλπιγξ). A wind instrument made of bronze, with a funnel or bell-shaped mouth, and straight tube (Ov. Met. 1. 98. Juv. ii. 118. Veg. Mil. iii. 5.), like our trumpet, giving out very loud and interrupted notes (fractos sonitus, Virg. Georg. iv. 72. terribili sonitu taratantara dixit. Ennius ap. Prisc. viii. 842.) The example (Tuba/1.1) is from the arch of Titus.

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