tinnulus

tinnŭlus, a, um, adj. [id.], ringing, tinkling, shrill-sounding ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I.

Lit.:

sistra,

Ov. P. 1, 1, 38:

aera,

id. M. 4, 393:

chordae,

Sen. Troad. 833:

fistula,

Calp. Ecl. 4, 74:

vox,

Cat. 61, 13; Pompon. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (with tenuis):

illic cymbala tinnulaeque Gades,

i. e. the shrill noise of the Gaditan maidens, Stat. S. 1, 6, 71 (cf. Juv. 11, 162).—

II.

Transf., of speakers:

(rhetores) tumidi et corrupti et tinnuli,

jingling, Quint. 2, 3, 9:

verba,

Hier. Ep. 143, 2; cf. tinnitus, II.