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Bucephalas

Bucephalas · m

the horse of Alexander the Great

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Where it lives

Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

Būcĕphălas — Lewis & Short

Būcĕphălas, ae (-lus, i, Paul. ex Būcĕphăla, m., = *boukefa/las (Macedon. = *bouke/falos, that which is arked with the figure of a bullock's head—bou=s, kefalh/—or so called from the breadth of its forehead),

Fest. p. 32 Müll.; Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. M. 3, 11),

I the horse of Alexander the Great, Curt. 6, 5, 18; 9, 3, 23; Gell. 5, 2, 1; acc. Bucephalan, Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 154.—Hence,

II Būcĕphăla, ōrum, n. (or -la, ae, f., Curt. 9, 3, 23; or -īa, ae, f.; or -ē, ēs, f., Just. 12, 8, 8; or -lŏs, i, f., Gell. 5, 2, 5), = *bouke/fala, a town in India, on the Hydaspes, built by Alexander, and named after his horse, Plin. 6, 20, 23, § 77; Sol. 45.

In the wild

Bucephalas Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.2.a
Bucephalas Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.2.1

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