Bucolĭca, a sort of poem which treats of the care of the flocks, and of the pleasures and occupations of the rural life, with simplicity and elegance. The most famous pastoral writers of antiquity are Moschus, Bion, Theocritus, and Virgil. The invention of Bucolics, or pastoral poetry, is attributed to a shepherd of Sicily.
Bucolĭcum, one of the mouths of the Nile, situate between the Sebennytican and Mendesian mouths, and called by Strabo, Phatniticum. Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 17.
Bucolion, a king of Arcadia, after Lais. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 5.——A son of Laomedon and the nymph Calybe.——A son of Hercules and Praxithea. He was also called Bucolus.——A son of Lycaon king of Arcadia. Apollodorus, bks. 2 & 3.
Bucŏlus, a son of Hercules and Marse.——A son of Hippocoon. Apollodorus, bks. 2 & 3.
Budii, a nation of Media. Herodotus.
Budīni, a people of Scythia. Herodotus.
Budōrum, a promontory of Salamis. Thucydides, bk. 2, ch. 94.
Bulbus, a Roman senator, remarkable for his meanness. Cicero, Against Verres.
Bulis, a town of Phocis, built by a colony from Doris, near the sea, above the bay of Corinth. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 37.——A Spartan given up to Xerxes, to atone for the offence which his countrymen had done in putting the king’s messengers to death. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 134, &c.
Bullatius, a friend of Horace to whom the poet addressed, bk. 1, ltr. 11, in consequence of his having travelled over part of Asia.