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bustum

bustum · n

the place where the bodies of the dead were burned and buried

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 2 · 16.67/10k
Troades 7 · 10.28/10k
De Testimionio Animae 2 · 8.95/10k
Pharsalia 41 · 8.05/10k
Elegiae 12 · 4.74/10k
Silvae 7 · 2.79/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 3 · 2.75/10k
Thebais 17 · 2.72/10k
Carmina 6 · 2.68/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. bustum — Lewis & Short

bustum, i, n.buro = uro, whence also comburo; cf. burrus, red, orig.

I the place where the bodies of the dead were burned and buried; later also, in gen., for a tomb: bustum proprie dicitur locus, in quo mortuus est combustus et sepultus... ubi vero combustus quis tantummodo, alibi vero est sepultus, is locus ab urendo ustrina vocatur; sed modo busta sepulchra appellamus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 32 Müll.; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 3, 22; 11, 201; Inscr. Murat. 1514, 3.

I The place of burning and burying; the funeral-pyre after the burning of the body: semiustaque servant Busta neque avelli possunt, Verg. A. 11, 201 Don. ad loc.; Lucr. 3, 906; Stat. S. 5, 1, 226; cf. Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 64.—

II Transf.

A In gen., a mound, tomb (most freq. in the poets): in busto Achilli, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 14: si quis bustum (nam id puto appellari tu/mbon) violarit, Solon ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 64; Cic. Phil. 14, 13, 34; id. Tusc. 5, 35, 101; id. Att. 7, 9, 1; Cat. 64, 363; Verg. A. 11, 850; 12, 863; * Hor. C. 3, 3, 40; Prop. 3 (4), 6, 29; 1, 19, 21; 2 (3), 13, 33; Ov. M. 4, 88; 13, 452 al.; Suet. Caes. 84; id. Ner. 33, 38; Luc. 8, 748 —

2 Trop., of things that, like a tomb, give up a body to destruction; so of the maw of an animal that eats men: viva videns vivo sepeliri viscera busto, seeing the living body enclosed in the living grave, Lucr. 5, 991.—So of Tereus, who devoured his son: flet modo, seque vocat bustum miserabile nati, Ov. M. 6, 665.—Sarcastically, of one who annulled the laws: bustum legum omnium ac religionum, Cic. Pis. 5, 11; and: bustum rei publicae, id. ib. 4, 9.—Of a battle-field: civilia busta Philippi, Prop. 2, 1, 27 Kuin.—

B Ad Busta Gallica, a place in Rome, so called from the Gauls who were burned and buried there, Varr. L. L. 5, § 157 Müll.; Liv. 5, 48, 3; 22, 14, 11.—

C Of a destroyed city, the site, ruins, Plin. 5, 17, 15, § 73.—

D The burned body itself, the ashes, Stat. Th. 12, 247.

2. bustum — Walde–Hofmann

bustum, -i n. ,Leichenbrandstütte, Grabmal* (seit XII tab., kaum rom.; zur Bed. vgl. Verg. Aen. 11, 201 se&musta ... busta. und Serv. Aen. 11, 185), bustirapus ,Grabschünder" (Plaut., Lehnübersetzung, von gr. tuußwpüxos), bustió f. „das Verbrennen* (nur Schol. Verg.), bustuärium „Leichenverbrennung* (Gl., -wärius Adj. seit Cie.; nach ossu-? Leumann IF. 39, 214), busticétum „Grabmal“ (Arnob, nach sepulerétum, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bustum, p. 156]

In the wild

busto Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.353
bustis Lucan, Pharsalia 6.808
bustum Seneca, De Ira 3.18.2
busta Ovid, Tristia 4.10.80
bustis Lucan, Pharsalia 6.154
busti Martial, Epigrammata 10.90.2

6 of 177 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. bustum (scan p. 103; entry #1402).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. bustum (scan p. 156; entry #470).

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