A dictionary of Greek and Roman . abo ( 255) and Diodorus (xvi. 15) state that this wordsignified revolted slaves. BUCCINA (j8u/cav7j), a kind of horn-trumpet,anciently made out of a shell. It is thus happilydescribed by Ovid {Met. i. 335): — Cava buccina sumitur illiTortilis, in latum quae turbine crescit ab imo:Buccina, quae in medio concepit ut aera ponto,Littora voce replet sub utroque jacentia Phoebo. The musical instrument buccina nearly resembledin shape the shell buccinum, and, like it, mightalmost be described from the above lines (in thelanguage of conchologists),
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . abo ( 255) and Diodorus (xvi. 15) state that this wordsignified revolted slaves. BUCCINA (j8u/cav7j), a kind of horn-trumpet,anciently made out of a shell. It is thus happilydescribed by Ovid {Met. i. 335): — Cava buccina sumitur illiTortilis, in latum quae turbine crescit ab imo:Buccina, quae in medio concepit ut aera ponto,Littora voce replet sub utroque jacentia Phoebo. The musical instrument buccina nearly resembledin shape the shell buccinum, and, like it, mightalmost be described from the above lines (in thelanguage of conchologists), as spiral and two drawings in the annexed woodcut agreewith this account. In the first, taken from a frieze(Burneys History of Music, vol. i. pi. 6), thebuccina is curved for the convenience of the per-former, with a very wide mouth, to diffuse andincrease the sound. In the next, a copy of anancient sculpture taken from Blanchinis work {DeMusicis Instrum. Veterum, p. 15. pi. 2, 18], it stillretains the original form of the The inscriptions quoted by Bartholini {De Tibiis,p. 226) seem to prove that the buccina was distinctfrom the cornu; but it is often (as in Aen. ) confounded with it. The buccina seems tohave been chiefly distinguished by the twistedform of the shell, from which it was originally made. In later times it was carved from horn,and perhaps from wood or metal, so as to imitatethe shell. The buccina was chiefly used to pro-claim the watches of the day (Senec. Thyest. 798)and of the night, hence called buccina prima, se-cunda, &c. (Polyb. xiv. 3 ; Liv. xxvi. 15; SiLItal. vii. 154 ; Propert. iv. 4. 63 ; Cic. Pro ) It was also blown at funerals, and at festiveentertainments both before sitting down to tableand after. (Tacit, Ann. xv. 30.) Macrobius (i. 8)tells us that tritons holding buccinae were fixed onthe roof of the temple of Saturn. The musician who played the buccina was calledbuccinator. TB. J.] BULLA, a circular plate or boss
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