) The
festiral
to com-
lianus by Appian (B.
lianus by Appian (B.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
73 ; Herod.
ii.
45 ; Macrob.
i.
7.
) We
whom the Greeks used to identify with their own must, therefore, be contented with knowing the
Artemis, and whose genealogy they explain ac- simple fact, that the Greeks identified the Egyp-
cordingly. (Herod. ii. 137, 156 ; Steph. Byz, s. v. tian Bubastis with their own Artemis, and that in
Boubaotos. ) She was a daughter of Osiris and later times, when the attributes of different divini-
Isis, and sister of Horus (Apollo). Her mother, ties were exchanged in various ways, the features
Isis, entrusted Bubastis and Horus to Buto, to peculiar to Eileithyia were transferred to Bubastis
protect them from Typhon. In the town of Buto (Anthol. Graec. xi. 81) and Isis. (Ov. Amor. ii.
there was a temple of Bubastis and Horus, but the ì3. ) Josephus (Ant. Jud. xiii. 3. § 2) mentions
principal seat of the worship of Bubastis was in Bubastis with the surname dypia, or the rustic, who
the town of Bubastus or Bubastis. Here her had a temple near Leontopolis in the nomos of
sanctuary was surrounded by two canals of the Heliopolis, which bad fallen into decay as early as
Nile, and it was distinguished for its beautiful the reign of Ptolemy Philometor. (Comp. Jablon-
situation as well as for the style of the building. I sky Panth. Aeg. ii
. 3 ; Pignorius, Exposit. Tab.
(Herod. ii. 137, 138. ) An annual festival was | Isiacae, p. 66, ed. Amstelod. ) [L. S. ]
celebrated to the goddess here, which was attend- BUBO'NA. The Romans had two divinities
ed by immense crowds of people (Herodotus, ii. whom they believed to be the protectors of stables,
60, estimates their number at 700,000), and was viz. Bubona and Epona, the former being the pro-
spent in great merriment. But the particulars, as tectress of oxen and cows, and the latter of horses.
well as the object of the solemnity, are not known, Small figures of these divinities were placed in
though the worship of Bubastis continued to a very niches made in the wall (aediculae), or in the pillar
late time. (Ov. Met. ix. 687 ; Gratius, De Venat. supporting the roof; sometimes, also, they were
42. ) The animal sacred to Bubastis was the cat; only painted over the manger. (Augustin. De Cic.
and according to Stephanus of Byzantium, the Dei
, is. 34 ; Tertull
. Apolog. 16 ; Minuc. Fel. Oct.
name Bubastis itself signified a cat. When cats 28 ; Apul. Met. p. 60 ; Juven. viii
. 157. ) [L. S. ]
died they were carefully embalmed and conveyed BUBULCUS, the name of a family of the Junia
to Bubastis. (Herod. ii. 67. ) The goddess herself gens. (Plin. H. N. xviii. 37; comp. Plut. Poplic.
was represented in the form of a cat, or of a female 11. ) There are only two persons of this family
with the head of a cat, and some specimens of such mentioned, both of whom bear the name of Brutus
representations, though not many, are still extant. also ; of these, one is called in the Fasti Capitolini
This is explained in the legend of Bubastis by the Bubulcus Brutus, and the other Brutus Bubulcus :
story, that when the gods fled from Typhon, Bu- they may therefore have belonged to the Bruti,
bastis (Arten. is, Diana) concealed herself by and not to a distinct family of the Junia gens.
2 12
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516
BUBULCUS.
BULARCHUS.
success.
Ono. .
TERVETTE
4 ວຈ 2
a
1. C. JUNIUS C. F. C. N. BUBULCUS BRUTUS, I had on his approach to Rome from Nola, in B. Co
was consul B. c. 317 and again in 313, in the lat. | 83. (Plut. Sull. 9. ) On the obverse is the head
ter of which years Saticula was founded. (Liv. ix. of Venus, with L. BVCA ; on the reverse a man
20, 21, 28 ; Diod. xix. 17, 77; Festus, s. v. Suti- sleeping, to whom Diana appears with Victory.
culu. ) He was magister equitum in 312 to the (Eckhel, v. p. 121. ).
dictator C. Sulpicius Longus (Fast. Capit. ) and not 2. L. AEMILIUS Buca, the son, supplicated the
dictator, as he is erroneously called by Livy (ix. judges on behalf of M. Scaurus at his trial in B. C.
29). He was consul a third time in 311, and 54. (Ascon. I. c. ) The following coin is supposed
carried on the war against the Samnites with great to refer to him, on the obverse of which is the
He retook Cluvia, which the Samnites head of Caesar, with PERPETVO CAESAR, and on
had wrested from the Romans, and thence march- the reverse Venus seated holding a small statue of
ed to Bovianum, which also fell into his hands. Victory, with the inscription L. BUCA. There are
In his return from Bovianum, he was surprised in several other coins belonging to this Buca, on some
a narrow pass by the Samnites; but, after a hard- of which we find the inscription, L. AEMILIUS
fought battle, he gained a great victory over them, BUCA IIIVIR, from which it would appear that he
and slew 20,000 of the enemy. It must have was a triumvir of the mint. (Eckhel, vi. pp. 8, 9. )
been on this occasion that he vowed a temple to
Safety, which he afterwards dedicated in his dic-
tatorship. In consequence of this victory, he ob
tained the honour of a triumph. (Liv. ix. 30, 31;
Diod. xx. 3 ; Fast. Capitol. ) In 309 he was again
magister equitum to the dictator L. Papirius Cur-
sor (Liv. ix. 38), and in 307 obtained the censor-
ship with L. Valerius Maximus. During his cen-
sorship he contracted for the building of the temple M. BUCCULEIUS, a Roman, not unversed in
of Safety which he had vowed in his consulship, legal studies, although, in the treatise De Oratore
and he and his colleague had roads made at the (i. 39), Cicero puts into the mouth of L. Crassus a
public expense. They also expelled L. Antonius rather sarcastic sketch of his character. Bucculeius
from the senate. (Liv. ix. 43; Val. Max. ii. 9. is there described by Crassus as familiaris noster,
§ 2. ) Finally, in 302, he was appointed dictator neque meo judicio stultus, et suo valde sapiens. An
when the Aequians renewed the war, as a general anecdote is then given of his want of legal caution.
rising of the surrounding nations was feared. Bu- Upon the conveyance of a house to L. Fufius, he
bulcus defeated the Aequians at the first encounter,
covenanted that the lights should remain in the
and returned to Rome at the end of seven days ; state in which they then were. Accordingly Fufius,
but he did not lay down his dictatorship till he whenever any building however distant was raised
had dedicated the temple of Safety which he had which could be seen from the house, commenced
vowed in his consulship. The walls of this temple an action against Bucculeius for a breach of agree-
were adorned with paintings by C. Fabius Pictor,
(J. T. G. )
which probably represented the battle he had gained BUCILIANUS, one of Caesar's assassins, B. C.
over the Samnites. (Liv. x. l; Val. Max. viii. 14. 44 (Cic. ad Att. xv. 17, xvi. 4), is called Buco-
$ 6; Plin. xxxv. 4. s. 7.
) The festiral to com-
lianus by Appian (B. C. ï. 113, 117), from whom
memorate the dedication of this temple was cele- we learn that he had been one of Caesar's friends.
brated, in Cicero's time, on the Nones of Sextilis.
BUCOʻLION (Boukodiwv), a son of Laomedon
(Cic. ad Atl. iv. 1. )
and the nymph Calybe, who had several sons by
2. C. Junius C. F. C. N. BRUTUS Bubulcus, A barbarea (Hom. 1. vi. 21, &c. ; Apollod. iii.
consul B. C. 291 (Liv. xvii. 6), and again in 277. 12. § 3 ; ABARBAREA. ) There are two other
In the latter year, he and his colleague P. Corne- mythical personages of this name. (Apollod. iii.
lius Rufinus were sent into Samnium, and sus- 8. & 1; Paus. viii. 5. § 5. )
[L. S. ]
tained a repulse in an attack upon the Samnites BU'COLUS (Boukódos), two mythical per-
in the mountains. Their loss upon this occasion sonages, ove a son of Heracles, and the other of
led to a quarrel between the consuls, who sepa- Hippocoon. (Apollod. ii. 7. $ 8, iii. 10. $ 5. ) (L. S. ]
rated in consequence. Zonaras says, that Bubul-
BUDEIA (Boúšeia). 1. (ATHENA. )
cus remained in Samnium, while Rufinus marched
2. A Boeotian woman, the wife of Clymenus
into Lucania and Bruttium : but, according to the and mother of Erginus, from whom the town of
Capitoline Fasti, which ascribe a triumph over the Budeion derived its name. (Eustath. ad Hom. p.
Lucanians and Bruttians to Bubulcus, the contrary 1076. ) From the Scholiast on Apollonius Rho:
must have been the case. (Zonar. viii. 6. )
dius (i. 185), it appears that she was the same as
BUCA, the name of a family of the Aemilia Buzyge. Others derived the name of the town of
gens, known to us chiefly from coins.
Budeion from an Argive hero, Budeios. (Eustath.
1. L. Aemilius Buca, the father (Ascon. in 1. c. ; Steph. Byz. s. v. Buúdera. ) (L. S. )
Scaur. p. 29, ed. Orelli), is supposed to have been
BULARCHUS, a very old painter of Asia
quaestor under Sulla, and to have struck the an-
Minor, whose picture representing the defeat of the
nexed coin to commemorate the dream which Sulla Magnesians (Magnetum proelium, Plin. H. N.
xxxv. 34 ; Magnetum excidium, Ib. vii. 39) is said
to have been paid by Candaules, king of Lydia
with so much gold as was required to cover the
whole of its large surface. This is either a mistake
of Pliny, since Candaules died in B. c. 716, and
the only destruction of Magnesia that is known of
took place after B. C. 676 (see Heyne, Art. Tem-
por. Opusc. v. p. 349); or, what is more probable,
ment.
:
a
LOVCI
## p. 517 (#537) ############################################
BUPALUS.
517
BURRUS.
p
the whole story is fictitious, as Welcker has shewn. | Athenis, likewise a celebrated artist, is generally
(Archiv für Philol. 1830, Nos. 9 and 10. ) [W. 1. ) called Anthermus, which being very differently
BULBUS, a Roman senator and an unprincipled spelt in the different MSS. has been rejected by
man, was one of the judices at the trial of Oppia- Sillig (Cat. Art. s. v. ), who proposes to read
nicus. Staienus, another of the judices at the trial, Archeneus. The reading Anthernius for the son's
had received a sum of money to secure the acquit- name instead of Athenis has long been generally
tal of Oppianicus; but, although Bulbus had ob given up.
(W. I. ]
tained a share of it, he and Staienus condemned BU'PHAGUS (Boúpayos). 1. A son of Iapetus
Oppianicus. Bulbus was afterwards condemned and Thornaxe, an Arcadian hero and husband of
on a charge of treason (majestas) for attempting to Promne. He received the wounded Iphicles, the
corrupt a legion in Illyricum. (Cic. pro Cluent. 26, brother of Heracles, into his house, and took care
35, c. Verr. ii. 32. )
of him until he died. Buphagus was afterwards
BULBUS, C. ATI'LIUS, was consul in B. C. killed by Artemis for having pursued her. (Paus.
245, a second time in 235, and censor in 234. In viii. 14. § 6, 27. § 11. )
his second consulship, in which he had T. Manlius 2. A surname of Heracles, Lepreus, and others,
Torquatus for a colleague, the temple of Janus was who were believed to have eaten a whole bull at
closed for the first time after the reign of Numa. once. (Apollod. ii. 7. & 7, 5. S 11; Aelian, V. H.
(Fast. Capit. ; Eutrop. ii. 3; Oros. iv. 12; Plut. | i. 24; Eustath. ud Hom. p. 1523. ) [L. S. )
Num. 20; comp. Liv. i. 19. )
BURA (Boupa), a daughter of Ion, the ances-
BULBUS, C. NORBA'NUS. [NORBANUS. ] | tral hero of the lonians, and Helice, from whom
BULIS(Boûlıs) and SPE'RTHIAS (Imepoins), the Achaean town of Bura derived its name.
two Spartans of noble rank, voluntarily offered to (Paus. vii. 25. $ 5 ; Steph. Byz. s. v. ) [L. S. ]
go to Xerxes and offer themselves to punishment, BURA'ICUS (Bovpaïros), a surname of He-
when the hero Talythibius was enraged against racles, derived from the Achaean town of Bura,
the Spartans on account of their having murdered near which he had a statue on the river Buraïcus,
the heralds whom Dareius had sent to Sparta ; and an oracle in a cave. Persons who consulted
but, upon their arrival at Susa, they were dismissed this oracle first said prayers before the statue, and
uninjured by the king. Their names are written then took four dice from a heap which was always
somewhat differently by different authors. (Herod. kept ready, and threw them upon a table. These
vii. 134, &c. ; Plut. Apophth. Lac. 60, p. 235, f. , dice were marked with certain characters, the
Praec. Reipubl. Ger. 19, p. 815, e. ; Lucian, Dem.
whom the Greeks used to identify with their own must, therefore, be contented with knowing the
Artemis, and whose genealogy they explain ac- simple fact, that the Greeks identified the Egyp-
cordingly. (Herod. ii. 137, 156 ; Steph. Byz, s. v. tian Bubastis with their own Artemis, and that in
Boubaotos. ) She was a daughter of Osiris and later times, when the attributes of different divini-
Isis, and sister of Horus (Apollo). Her mother, ties were exchanged in various ways, the features
Isis, entrusted Bubastis and Horus to Buto, to peculiar to Eileithyia were transferred to Bubastis
protect them from Typhon. In the town of Buto (Anthol. Graec. xi. 81) and Isis. (Ov. Amor. ii.
there was a temple of Bubastis and Horus, but the ì3. ) Josephus (Ant. Jud. xiii. 3. § 2) mentions
principal seat of the worship of Bubastis was in Bubastis with the surname dypia, or the rustic, who
the town of Bubastus or Bubastis. Here her had a temple near Leontopolis in the nomos of
sanctuary was surrounded by two canals of the Heliopolis, which bad fallen into decay as early as
Nile, and it was distinguished for its beautiful the reign of Ptolemy Philometor. (Comp. Jablon-
situation as well as for the style of the building. I sky Panth. Aeg. ii
. 3 ; Pignorius, Exposit. Tab.
(Herod. ii. 137, 138. ) An annual festival was | Isiacae, p. 66, ed. Amstelod. ) [L. S. ]
celebrated to the goddess here, which was attend- BUBO'NA. The Romans had two divinities
ed by immense crowds of people (Herodotus, ii. whom they believed to be the protectors of stables,
60, estimates their number at 700,000), and was viz. Bubona and Epona, the former being the pro-
spent in great merriment. But the particulars, as tectress of oxen and cows, and the latter of horses.
well as the object of the solemnity, are not known, Small figures of these divinities were placed in
though the worship of Bubastis continued to a very niches made in the wall (aediculae), or in the pillar
late time. (Ov. Met. ix. 687 ; Gratius, De Venat. supporting the roof; sometimes, also, they were
42. ) The animal sacred to Bubastis was the cat; only painted over the manger. (Augustin. De Cic.
and according to Stephanus of Byzantium, the Dei
, is. 34 ; Tertull
. Apolog. 16 ; Minuc. Fel. Oct.
name Bubastis itself signified a cat. When cats 28 ; Apul. Met. p. 60 ; Juven. viii
. 157. ) [L. S. ]
died they were carefully embalmed and conveyed BUBULCUS, the name of a family of the Junia
to Bubastis. (Herod. ii. 67. ) The goddess herself gens. (Plin. H. N. xviii. 37; comp. Plut. Poplic.
was represented in the form of a cat, or of a female 11. ) There are only two persons of this family
with the head of a cat, and some specimens of such mentioned, both of whom bear the name of Brutus
representations, though not many, are still extant. also ; of these, one is called in the Fasti Capitolini
This is explained in the legend of Bubastis by the Bubulcus Brutus, and the other Brutus Bubulcus :
story, that when the gods fled from Typhon, Bu- they may therefore have belonged to the Bruti,
bastis (Arten. is, Diana) concealed herself by and not to a distinct family of the Junia gens.
2 12
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516
BUBULCUS.
BULARCHUS.
success.
Ono. .
TERVETTE
4 ວຈ 2
a
1. C. JUNIUS C. F. C. N. BUBULCUS BRUTUS, I had on his approach to Rome from Nola, in B. Co
was consul B. c. 317 and again in 313, in the lat. | 83. (Plut. Sull. 9. ) On the obverse is the head
ter of which years Saticula was founded. (Liv. ix. of Venus, with L. BVCA ; on the reverse a man
20, 21, 28 ; Diod. xix. 17, 77; Festus, s. v. Suti- sleeping, to whom Diana appears with Victory.
culu. ) He was magister equitum in 312 to the (Eckhel, v. p. 121. ).
dictator C. Sulpicius Longus (Fast. Capit. ) and not 2. L. AEMILIUS Buca, the son, supplicated the
dictator, as he is erroneously called by Livy (ix. judges on behalf of M. Scaurus at his trial in B. C.
29). He was consul a third time in 311, and 54. (Ascon. I. c. ) The following coin is supposed
carried on the war against the Samnites with great to refer to him, on the obverse of which is the
He retook Cluvia, which the Samnites head of Caesar, with PERPETVO CAESAR, and on
had wrested from the Romans, and thence march- the reverse Venus seated holding a small statue of
ed to Bovianum, which also fell into his hands. Victory, with the inscription L. BUCA. There are
In his return from Bovianum, he was surprised in several other coins belonging to this Buca, on some
a narrow pass by the Samnites; but, after a hard- of which we find the inscription, L. AEMILIUS
fought battle, he gained a great victory over them, BUCA IIIVIR, from which it would appear that he
and slew 20,000 of the enemy. It must have was a triumvir of the mint. (Eckhel, vi. pp. 8, 9. )
been on this occasion that he vowed a temple to
Safety, which he afterwards dedicated in his dic-
tatorship. In consequence of this victory, he ob
tained the honour of a triumph. (Liv. ix. 30, 31;
Diod. xx. 3 ; Fast. Capitol. ) In 309 he was again
magister equitum to the dictator L. Papirius Cur-
sor (Liv. ix. 38), and in 307 obtained the censor-
ship with L. Valerius Maximus. During his cen-
sorship he contracted for the building of the temple M. BUCCULEIUS, a Roman, not unversed in
of Safety which he had vowed in his consulship, legal studies, although, in the treatise De Oratore
and he and his colleague had roads made at the (i. 39), Cicero puts into the mouth of L. Crassus a
public expense. They also expelled L. Antonius rather sarcastic sketch of his character. Bucculeius
from the senate. (Liv. ix. 43; Val. Max. ii. 9. is there described by Crassus as familiaris noster,
§ 2. ) Finally, in 302, he was appointed dictator neque meo judicio stultus, et suo valde sapiens. An
when the Aequians renewed the war, as a general anecdote is then given of his want of legal caution.
rising of the surrounding nations was feared. Bu- Upon the conveyance of a house to L. Fufius, he
bulcus defeated the Aequians at the first encounter,
covenanted that the lights should remain in the
and returned to Rome at the end of seven days ; state in which they then were. Accordingly Fufius,
but he did not lay down his dictatorship till he whenever any building however distant was raised
had dedicated the temple of Safety which he had which could be seen from the house, commenced
vowed in his consulship. The walls of this temple an action against Bucculeius for a breach of agree-
were adorned with paintings by C. Fabius Pictor,
(J. T. G. )
which probably represented the battle he had gained BUCILIANUS, one of Caesar's assassins, B. C.
over the Samnites. (Liv. x. l; Val. Max. viii. 14. 44 (Cic. ad Att. xv. 17, xvi. 4), is called Buco-
$ 6; Plin. xxxv. 4. s. 7.
) The festiral to com-
lianus by Appian (B. C. ï. 113, 117), from whom
memorate the dedication of this temple was cele- we learn that he had been one of Caesar's friends.
brated, in Cicero's time, on the Nones of Sextilis.
BUCOʻLION (Boukodiwv), a son of Laomedon
(Cic. ad Atl. iv. 1. )
and the nymph Calybe, who had several sons by
2. C. Junius C. F. C. N. BRUTUS Bubulcus, A barbarea (Hom. 1. vi. 21, &c. ; Apollod. iii.
consul B. C. 291 (Liv. xvii. 6), and again in 277. 12. § 3 ; ABARBAREA. ) There are two other
In the latter year, he and his colleague P. Corne- mythical personages of this name. (Apollod. iii.
lius Rufinus were sent into Samnium, and sus- 8. & 1; Paus. viii. 5. § 5. )
[L. S. ]
tained a repulse in an attack upon the Samnites BU'COLUS (Boukódos), two mythical per-
in the mountains. Their loss upon this occasion sonages, ove a son of Heracles, and the other of
led to a quarrel between the consuls, who sepa- Hippocoon. (Apollod. ii. 7. $ 8, iii. 10. $ 5. ) (L. S. ]
rated in consequence. Zonaras says, that Bubul-
BUDEIA (Boúšeia). 1. (ATHENA. )
cus remained in Samnium, while Rufinus marched
2. A Boeotian woman, the wife of Clymenus
into Lucania and Bruttium : but, according to the and mother of Erginus, from whom the town of
Capitoline Fasti, which ascribe a triumph over the Budeion derived its name. (Eustath. ad Hom. p.
Lucanians and Bruttians to Bubulcus, the contrary 1076. ) From the Scholiast on Apollonius Rho:
must have been the case. (Zonar. viii. 6. )
dius (i. 185), it appears that she was the same as
BUCA, the name of a family of the Aemilia Buzyge. Others derived the name of the town of
gens, known to us chiefly from coins.
Budeion from an Argive hero, Budeios. (Eustath.
1. L. Aemilius Buca, the father (Ascon. in 1. c. ; Steph. Byz. s. v. Buúdera. ) (L. S. )
Scaur. p. 29, ed. Orelli), is supposed to have been
BULARCHUS, a very old painter of Asia
quaestor under Sulla, and to have struck the an-
Minor, whose picture representing the defeat of the
nexed coin to commemorate the dream which Sulla Magnesians (Magnetum proelium, Plin. H. N.
xxxv. 34 ; Magnetum excidium, Ib. vii. 39) is said
to have been paid by Candaules, king of Lydia
with so much gold as was required to cover the
whole of its large surface. This is either a mistake
of Pliny, since Candaules died in B. c. 716, and
the only destruction of Magnesia that is known of
took place after B. C. 676 (see Heyne, Art. Tem-
por. Opusc. v. p. 349); or, what is more probable,
ment.
:
a
LOVCI
## p. 517 (#537) ############################################
BUPALUS.
517
BURRUS.
p
the whole story is fictitious, as Welcker has shewn. | Athenis, likewise a celebrated artist, is generally
(Archiv für Philol. 1830, Nos. 9 and 10. ) [W. 1. ) called Anthermus, which being very differently
BULBUS, a Roman senator and an unprincipled spelt in the different MSS. has been rejected by
man, was one of the judices at the trial of Oppia- Sillig (Cat. Art. s. v. ), who proposes to read
nicus. Staienus, another of the judices at the trial, Archeneus. The reading Anthernius for the son's
had received a sum of money to secure the acquit- name instead of Athenis has long been generally
tal of Oppianicus; but, although Bulbus had ob given up.
(W. I. ]
tained a share of it, he and Staienus condemned BU'PHAGUS (Boúpayos). 1. A son of Iapetus
Oppianicus. Bulbus was afterwards condemned and Thornaxe, an Arcadian hero and husband of
on a charge of treason (majestas) for attempting to Promne. He received the wounded Iphicles, the
corrupt a legion in Illyricum. (Cic. pro Cluent. 26, brother of Heracles, into his house, and took care
35, c. Verr. ii. 32. )
of him until he died. Buphagus was afterwards
BULBUS, C. ATI'LIUS, was consul in B. C. killed by Artemis for having pursued her. (Paus.
245, a second time in 235, and censor in 234. In viii. 14. § 6, 27. § 11. )
his second consulship, in which he had T. Manlius 2. A surname of Heracles, Lepreus, and others,
Torquatus for a colleague, the temple of Janus was who were believed to have eaten a whole bull at
closed for the first time after the reign of Numa. once. (Apollod. ii. 7. & 7, 5. S 11; Aelian, V. H.
(Fast. Capit. ; Eutrop. ii. 3; Oros. iv. 12; Plut. | i. 24; Eustath. ud Hom. p. 1523. ) [L. S. )
Num. 20; comp. Liv. i. 19. )
BURA (Boupa), a daughter of Ion, the ances-
BULBUS, C. NORBA'NUS. [NORBANUS. ] | tral hero of the lonians, and Helice, from whom
BULIS(Boûlıs) and SPE'RTHIAS (Imepoins), the Achaean town of Bura derived its name.
two Spartans of noble rank, voluntarily offered to (Paus. vii. 25. $ 5 ; Steph. Byz. s. v. ) [L. S. ]
go to Xerxes and offer themselves to punishment, BURA'ICUS (Bovpaïros), a surname of He-
when the hero Talythibius was enraged against racles, derived from the Achaean town of Bura,
the Spartans on account of their having murdered near which he had a statue on the river Buraïcus,
the heralds whom Dareius had sent to Sparta ; and an oracle in a cave. Persons who consulted
but, upon their arrival at Susa, they were dismissed this oracle first said prayers before the statue, and
uninjured by the king. Their names are written then took four dice from a heap which was always
somewhat differently by different authors. (Herod. kept ready, and threw them upon a table. These
vii. 134, &c. ; Plut. Apophth. Lac. 60, p. 235, f. , dice were marked with certain characters, the
Praec. Reipubl. Ger. 19, p. 815, e. ; Lucian, Dem.
