noun
tŭbĭlustrĭum
Meaning
- a festival held on the 23d of March and 23d of May
tŭbĭlustrĭum or tŭbŭlustrĭum, ii, n. tuba-lustro,
I. a festival held on the 23d of March and 23d of May, when the trumpets used at sacrifices were purified, the feast of trumpets:
dies tubulustrium appellatur, quod eo die in atrio sutorio sacrorum tubae lustrantur, Varr. L. L. 6, § 14 Müll. (cf. Ov. F. 3, 849).—Also plur.: tubilustria, Ov. F. 5, 725; cf. Fest. p. 352 Müll.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
tubilūstrium (tubul-) ī, n
tuba+2 lustrum, a festival for the purification of sacrificial trumpets, held Mar . 23 and May 23, O.