School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ed apropitiatory rite, in which they imitatedbears. This rite may have simply risenfrom the circumstance that the bear wassacred to Artemis, especially in was also a quinquennial festival calledBrauronia, which was celebrated by menand dissolute women, at Brauron, in honourof Dionysus. BREAKFAST. [Coena ; Deipnon.] BREASTPLATE. [Lorica.] BRIBERY. [Ambitus.] BRIDE. [Matrimonium.] BRIDGE. [Pons.] BRIDLE. [Frenum.] BRONZE. [Aes.] BROOCH. [Fibula.] BUCCINA (&vKdvr]),a kind of horntrumpet, anciently made out of a shell(buccinum), the
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ed apropitiatory rite, in which they imitatedbears. This rite may have simply risenfrom the circumstance that the bear wassacred to Artemis, especially in was also a quinquennial festival calledBrauronia, which was celebrated by menand dissolute women, at Brauron, in honourof Dionysus. BREAKFAST. [Coena ; Deipnon.] BREASTPLATE. [Lorica.] BRIBERY. [Ambitus.] BRIDE. [Matrimonium.] BRIDGE. [Pons.] BRIDLE. [Frenum.] BRONZE. [Aes.] BROOCH. [Fibula.] BUCCINA (&vKdvr]),a kind of horntrumpet, anciently made out of a shell(buccinum), the form of which is exhibitedin the two specimens annexed. In theformer it is curved for the convenience ofthe performer with a very wide mouth, todifTuse and increase the sound. In the next,it still retains the original form of the buccina was distinct from the cornu;but it is often confounded with it. Thebuccina seems to have been chiefly distin- BULLA. 61 guished by the twisted form of the shell,from which it was originally made. In. aUCCINAE, TRUMPETS. later times it was carved from horn, andperhaps from wood or metal, so as to imi-tate the shell. The buccina was chiefly used to proclaimthe watches of the day and of the night, hencecalled buccina prima, secunda, &c. It wasalso blown at funerals, and at festive enter-tainments both before sitting down to tableand after. BULLA, a circular plate or boss ofmetal, so called from its resemblance in
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