School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . TUBA, IRUMPSl s 4 392 TUMULTUS. C:^. T^BA, TROMFET. TUBILUSTRIUM. [Quinquatrus.]TULLIANUM. [Carcer.]TUMULTU A RII. [Tumultus.]TUMULTUS, the name given to asudden or dan<ferous war in Italy or Cis-alpine Gaul, and the word was supposedby the ancients to be a contraction of timormultus. It was, however, sometimes appliedto a sudden or dangerous war elsewhere;but this does not appear to have been acorrect use of the word. Cicero says thatthere might be a war without a tumultus,but not a tumultus without a war; but itmust be recollected that th
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . TUBA, IRUMPSl s 4 392 TUMULTUS. C:^. T^BA, TROMFET. TUBILUSTRIUM. [Quinquatrus.]TULLIANUM. [Carcer.]TUMULTU A RII. [Tumultus.]TUMULTUS, the name given to asudden or dan<ferous war in Italy or Cis-alpine Gaul, and the word was supposedby the ancients to be a contraction of timormultus. It was, however, sometimes appliedto a sudden or dangerous war elsewhere;but this does not appear to have been acorrect use of the word. Cicero says thatthere might be a war without a tumultus,but not a tumultus without a war; but itmust be recollected that the word was alsoapplied to any sudden alarm respecting awar; whence we find a tumultus oftenspoken of as of less importance than a war,because the results were of less conse-quence, though the fear might have beenmuch greater than in a regular war. In the case of a tumultus there was acessation from all business (justitium), andall citizens were obliged to enlist withoutregard being had to the exemptions (vaca-tiones) from military service, which wereenjoyed at other times. As there
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