avidus, a, um, adj., comp. avidior, desirous, eager, greedy.
avis, is, f., bird.
avunculus, ī [dim. of avus], m., mother’s brother, uncle.
avus, ī, m., grandfather, ancestor.
B.
Babylōn, ōnis, f., capital city of the Babylonian-Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia, on the Euphrates.
Bacaudae, ārum, pl. m., the name of the revolting peasants in Gaul in the reign of Diocletian.
Balbīnus, ī, m., (D. Caelius) Balbīnus was elected emperor by the Senate, but was slain by the soldiers at Rome, 238 A.D.
barbaria, ae [barbarus], f., a strange land, a foreign country (opposed to Greece and Italy).
barbaricus, a, um [barbarus], adj., foreign, strange; as subst., Barbaricum, ī, n., strange land.