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tībīcen, ĭnis, m. [contr. from tībĭĭcen, from tibia-cano], a piper, flute-player, flutist.

  1. I. Lit.: age, tibicen, refer ad labias tibias, suffla celeriter tibi buccas, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 41: si tibiae non referant sonum, abiciendas sibi tibicen putat, Cic. Brut. 51, 192: tibicen sine tibiis canere non potest, id. de Or. 2, 83, 338; id Leg. 2, 24, 62; id. Ac. 2, 7, 20; id. Dom. 47 123; id. Agr. 2, 34, 93; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 98; id. A. P. 415: tibicines abierunt, Liv. 9, 30, 5: funus celebratum … praecedente tibicine, Plin. 10, 43, 60, § 122; Val. Max. 2, 5, 4: transit idem jurisconsultus tibicinis Latini modo, i. e. preludes or rehearses the legal formulas (as the flutist accompanies the actors), Cic. Mur. 12, 26.
    Sing. collect.: crebro tibicine, Cic. Sen. 13, 44.
  2. II. Transf., a kind of pillar, support, or prop of a building, Cat. 61, 158; Ov. F. 4, 695: urbem colimus tenui tibicine fultum, Juv. 3, 193.
    Of Atlas, supporting the heaven, Arn. 2, 92; cf.: tibicines in aedificiis dici existimantur a similitudine tibiis canentium, qui ut cantantes sustineant, ita illi aedificiorum tecta, Fest. p. 366 Müll.

tībīcĭna, ae, f. [tibicen], a female fluteplayer, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 104 Müll. (p. 175 Vahl.); Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 36 sq.; 2, 2, 56; id Most. 4, 3, 2 al.; Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 7 sq.; Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 25; Ov. F. 6, 687; Juv. 2, 90; Mart. 14, 64, 1; Gell. 1, 11, 7.

‡ tībīcĭnātor, αὐλητής, Gloss. Cyrill. [tibicino].

tībīcĭnĭum, ii, n. [tibicen], a playing upon the pipe or flute, a piping, fluting (class.): tibicinii scientia, Cic. N. D. 2, 8, 22; id. Or. 58, 198; App. Flor. p. 341, 28; 342, 20; Gell. 4, 13, 2.

tībīcĭno, āre, v. a. [tibicen].

  1. * I. To play upon the pipe or flute: ordo tibicinantium, Fulg. Myth. 3, 9.
  2. II. To prop up, support any thing, Tert. Anim. 38; Schol. Juv. 3, 193.