Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), T, Trophonius, Tumŭlus

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Tumŭlus

（τύμβος, κολώνη). A sort of cairn or rough mound of earth and stones piled up in a pyramidal shape over a grave. Sometimes it served as the base of a column (στήλη) erected as a monument. The word is also used in the general sense of a grave or tomb (Hom. Il. xxiv. 798; xi. 371; Verg. Ecl. v. 42). See the illustration in the article Horatius, p. 844.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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