Non Bibulo quicquam nuper, sed Cæsare factum est;
Nam Bibulo fieri consule nil memini.
——One of the friends of Horace bore that name. Bk. 1, satire 10, li. 86.
Bices, a marsh near the Palus Mœotis. Flaccus, bk. 6, li. 68.
Bicon, a Greek who assassinated Athenodorus, because he made himself master of a colony which Alexander had left at Bactra. Curtius, bk. 9, ch. 7.
Bicornĭger, a surname of Bacchus.
Bicornis, the name of Alexander among the Arabians.
Biformīs (two forms), a surname of Bacchus and of Janus. Bacchus received it because he changed himself into an old woman to fly from the persecution of Juno; or perhaps because he was represented sometimes as a young, and sometimes as an old, man.
Bifrons, a surname of Janus, because he was represented with two faces among the Romans, as acquainted with the past and future. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 180.
Bilbĭlis, a town of Celtiberia, where Martial was born. Martial, bk. 1, ltr. 50.——A river of Spain. Justin, bk. 44, ch. 3.