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bustuarius

bustuarius · adj

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Where it lives

In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

bustŭārĭus — Lewis & Short

bustŭārĭus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of or pertaining to the place where dead bodies were burned: gladiator, that fought at a funeral pile in honor of the dead, Cic. Pis. 9, 19; Tert. Spect. 11; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 10, 519 (Cicero so calls Clodius, in the passage cited, on account of a tumult which he caused at the funeral ceremonies that Cicero's brother made in honor of Marius): moecha, she who prostitutes herself among tombs, Mart. 3, 93, 15: altare, upon which men were offered, Tert. Pall. 4: latro = bustirapus, Amm. 28, 1, 12.

In the wild

bustuarii Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.2.15
bustuarias Martial, Epigrammata 3.93.15
bustuario Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 19

Where it came from

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