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The entries on pp183‑216 of

William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D.:
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875.

Thayer's Note: I'm not particularly interested in ancient Greece. My site therefore includes, with very few exceptions, only those entries that pertain to Rome. In these index pages, those that pertain exclusively to Greece are indicated in grey; I do not plan to put them onsite.

BACCHANAʹLIA: see separate page.

Bakteria

BAʹLATRO: see separate page.

BALISTA. [Tormentum.]

pp184‑196 BAʹLNEAE: see separate page.

BAʹLTEUS: see separate page.

BAPTISTEʹRIUM. [Balneae.]

Barathron

p198 BARBA: see separate page.

BAʹRBITOS. [Lyra.]

Basanos

BASCAʹNIA. [Fascinum.]

BASCAUDA, a British basket. This term, which remains with very little variation in the Welsh "basgawd," and the English "basket," was conveyed to Rome together with the articles denoted by it. We find it used by Juvenal (XII.46) and by Martial (XIV.99) in connections which imply that these articles were held in much esteem by the luxurious Romans. [J.Y.]

Basileia

BAʹSILEUS. [Rex.]

pp199‑200 BASIʹLICA [building]: see separate page.

BASIʹLICA [legal text]: see separate page.

BASTERNA, a kind of litter (lectica) in which women were carried in the time of the Roman emperors. It appears to have resembled the lectica [Lectica] very closely; and the only difference apparently was, that the lectica was carried by slaves, and the basterna by two mules. Several etymologies of the word have been proposed. Salmasius proposes it to be derived from the Greek βαστάζω (Salm. ad Lamprid. Heliog. 21). A description of a basterna is given by a poet in the Anth. Lat. III.183.

p201 BAXA: see separate page.

Bebaioseos Dike

BEMA (βῆμα), the platform from which the orators spoke in the Athenian ἐκκλησία, is described under Ecclesia. It is used by the Greek writers on Roman affairs to indicate the Roman tribunal (see e.g. Plut. Pomp. 41).

Bendideia

BENEFIʹCIUM ABSTINENDI. [Heres.]

p202 BENEFIʹCIUM, BENEFICIAʹRIUS: see separate page.

BESTIAʹRII: see separate page.

BIʹBASIS. [Saltatio.]

BIBLIOPOʹLA. [Liber.]

p203 BIBLIOTHEʹCA: see separate page.

Bidiaei

BIGA. [Currus.]

BIGAʹTUS. [Denarius.]

BIPAʹLIUM. [Pala.]

BIPENNIS. [Securis.]

BIREMIS. [Navis.]

BIRRUS: see separate page.

BISEʹLLIUM. [Sella.]

BISSEXTUM. [Calendarium.]

p204 Blabes Dike

BOEDROMIA: see separate page.

p205 Boeotarches

BOMBYCINUM. [Sericum.]

p206 BONA: see separate page.

p207 BONA CADUʹCA: see separate page.

BONA FIDES: see separate page.

BONA RAPTA. [Furtum.]

p208 BONA VACAʹNTIA: see separate page.

BONOʹRUM CEʹSSIO: see separate page.

BONOʹRUM COLLAʹTIO: see separate page.

BONOʹRUM EʹMTIO ET EMTOR: see separate page.

p209 BONOʹRUM POSSEʹSSIO: see separate page; also Interdictum.

BONOʹRUM RAPTOʹRUM ACTIO. [Furtum.]

pp210‑213 Boonae • Boreasmi • Boule • Bouleuseos Graphe • Bouleuterion

BRACAE: see separate page.

BRASIDEIA: see separate page.

p214 Brauronia

p215 BREVIAʹRIUM: see separate page.

BRUTTIAʹNI, slaves whose duty it was to wait upon the Roman magistrates. They are said to have been originally taken from among the Bruttians, because this people continued from first to last faithful to Hannibal (Festus, s.v. Bruttiani; Gell. X.3); but Niebuhr (Hist. of Rome, vol. III note 944) is disposed to think that these servants bore this name long before, since both Strabo (VI. p255) and Diodorus (XVI.15) state that this word signified revolted slaves.

BUʹCCINA: see separate page.

p216 BULLA: see separate page.

BURIS. [Aratrum.]

BUSTUAʹRII. [Funus.]

BUXUM: see separate page.

BYSSUS: see separate page.

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The entries on pp183‑216 of

William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D.: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875.

William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D.:
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875.