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Tuba

σάλπιγξ). The Latin name for a straight wind-instrument of deep, clangorous sound, which was used at sacrifices, games, funerals, and in war among the infantry to give the signal for attack and retreat, and was blown by the tubicen. See Lituus; Salpinx; and cf. Cornu.

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