1. s. tuba (a long straight bronze tube, increasing in diameter, and terminating in a bell-shaped aperture): lituus (slightly curved at the extremity: the lituus was used by the cavalry, the tuba by the infantry Acro ad Hor., Carm., 1, 1, 23): buccina (a horn-trumpet, resembling the shell, buccinum; spiral and gibbous originally made of a shell, then of horn, and perhaps of wood and metal. Its chief use was in proclaiming the watches of the day: it was also blown at funerals and before sitting down to table): cornu (horn; invented by the Etruscans: first of horn, afterward of brass: curved in the shape of a “C”, with a cross-piece to steady it; non tuba directi, non aeris cornua flexi, Ov., s., Dict. of Antiquities). To blow the trumpet, tuba canere: at the sound of the trumpet, tuba accinente; the sound of a trumpet, tubae or buccinae sonus: the trumpet sounds, buccinatur (of course, only if it is a buccina): though they did not hear the trumpet, non exaudito tubae sono (☞ classicum was PROP. a “signal,” though also used for the instrument, mostly a cornu, with which it was sounded; Dictionary of Antiquities). To sound one’s own trumpet (proverbially), de se ipsum praedicare (Cic.); se ipsum laudare.