The corpus record — Latin

bubulcus1

bubulcus1 · m

one who ploughs with oxen

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 5 · 4.56/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 7 · 4.37/10k
De agri cultura 5 · 3.2/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 21 · 2.67/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. bŭbulcus — Lewis & Short

bŭbulcus, i, m.bos, bubulus, bou=kos.

I In a restricted sense, one who ploughs with oxen, a ploughman, = arator (diff. from pastor and armentarius, a herdsman; so most freq. in the Script. rerr. rustt.), Varr. R. R. 2, prooem. § 4 sq.; Juv. 11, 151; cf. Col. 1, 6, 8; 1, 9, 2; 2, 2, 25; 2, 5, 2; 2, 12, 1 sq.; Cic. Div. 1, 27, 57; Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 30; Juv. 7, 116; 11, 151 al.—

II In a more general sense, a herdsman (rare, and not before the post-Aug. per.), Dig. 33, 7, 18, § 6.

2. Bŭbulcus — Lewis & Short

Bŭbulcus, i, m.,

I the cognomen of several persons in the gens Junia, Liv. 9, 20, 7; 27, 6, 8; Plin. 18, 3, 3, § 10.

In the wild

bubulci Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.4.3
bubulci Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.5.2
Bubulcum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.2.25
Bubulcum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.3.p1
bubulco Cicero, De Divinatione 1.57
bubulce Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae appendix.26.4

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Where it came from

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