Bubacēne, a town of Asia. Curtius, bk. 5.
Bubāces, a eunuch of Darius, &c. Curtius, bk. 5, ch. 11.
Bubăris, a Persian who married the daughter of Amyntas, against whom he had been sent with an army. Justin, bk. 7, ch. 13.
Bubastiăcus, one of the mouths of the Nile.
Bubastis, a city of Egypt, in the eastern parts of the Delta, where cats were held in great veneration, because Diana Bubastis, who is the chief deity of the place, is said to have transformed herself into a cat when the gods fled into Egypt. Herodotus, bk. 2, chs. 59, 137, & 154.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, li. 690.
Bubăsus, a country of Caria, whence Bubasides applied to the natives. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, li. 643.
Bubon, an inland city of Lycia. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 27.
Bucephăla, a city of India near the Hydaspes, built by Alexander in honour of his favourite horse Bucephalus. Curtius, bk. 9, ch. 3.—Justin, bk. 12, ch. 8.—Diodorus, bk. 17.
Bucephălus, a horse of Alexander’s, whose head resembled that of a bull, whence his name (βους κεφαλος, bovis caput). Alexander was the only one who could mount on his back, and he always knelt down to take up his master. He was present in an engagement in Asia, where he received a heavy wound, and hastened immediately out of the battle, and dropped down dead as soon as he had set down the king in a safe place. He was 30 years old when he died, and Alexander built a city which he called after his name. Plutarch, Alexander.—Curtius.—Arrian, bk. 5, ch. 3.—Pliny, bk. 8, ch. 42.
Buciliānus, one of Cæsar’s murderers. Cicero, Letters to Atticus, ch. 14.