bucina: Difference between revisions

{{Lewis

|lshtext=<b>būcĭna</b>: (not buccĭna), ae, f., = [[βυκάνη]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[crooked]] [[horn]] or [[trumpet]] ([[while]] [[tuba]] is [[usually]] the [[straight]] [[trumpet]]; cf. Veg. Mil. 3, 3, 5 Stewech.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit., a [[shepherd]]'s [[horn]], Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 20: [[bucina]] inflata, id. ib. 3, 13, 1; Col. 6, 23, 3; Prop. 4 (5), 10, 29.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[war]]-[[trumpet]]: [[bello]] dat [[signum]] [[rauca]] cruentum Bucina, Verg. A. 11, 475: quā [[bucina]] [[signum]] Dira dedit, id. ib. 7, 519.—In gen., as a [[signal]] employed in changing the [[four]] [[night]]-watches, and for [[waking]] the soldiers (cf. Dict. of Antiq.): te gallorum, illum bucinarum [[cantus]] exsuscitat, Cic. Mur. 9, 22: ubi secundae vigiliae bucinā datum [[signum]] esset, Liv. 7, 35, 1; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 63; Sil. 7, 154.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hence, meton.: ad primam, secundam, etc., bucinam (for vigiliam), at the [[first]], [[second]], etc., [[watch]]: ut ad tertiam bucinam [[praesto]] essent, Liv. 26, 15, 6.—It [[was]] also blown at the [[end]] of the [[evening]] [[meal]], Tac. A. 15, 30 Nipp. ad loc.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In [[other]] spheres of [[life]]; so for [[calling]] assemblies of the [[people]]: [[bucina]] datur: homines ex agris concurrunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44, § 96: [[bucina]] cogebat priscos ad verba [[Quirites]], Prop. 4 (5), 1, 13; Curt. 3, 3, 8.— For designating the hours of the [[day]] ([[which]] were divided [[into]] [[four]] parts), Sen. Thyest. 799; cf. [[bucino]].—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Poet., a [[kind]] of [[circular]], [[winding]] [[shell]] on [[which]] [[Triton]] blew, [[Triton]]'s [[shell]], Ov. M. 1, 335 and 337; cf. [[bucinator]].—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> Trop.: foedae [[bucina]] famae, the [[trump]] of [[ill]] [[fame]], Juv. 14, 152; cf. [[bucinator]], II.

}}