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bŏa (also bŏva in the MSS. of Pliny and Festus), ae, f. [bos; cf. βουβών],

  1. I. a large Italian serpent: in Italiă appellatae bovae in tantam amplitudinem exeuntes ut divo Claudio principe occisae in Vaticano solidus in alvo spectatus infans, Plin. 8, 14, 14, § 37; 30, 14, 47, § 138 sq.; Sol. 2; acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 30 Müll., a water-serpent, so called because it milked cows, Sol. 2, 33; or because it could swallow an ox, quas boas vocant, ab eo quod tam grandes sint ut boves gluttire soleant, Hier. Vit. Hil. Erem. 39.
  2. II. A disease producing red pustules, the measles or small-pox, Plin. 24, 8, 35, § 53: boam id est rubentes papulas. id. 26, 11, 73, § 120: boas fimum bubulum abolet: unde et nomen traxere, id. 28, 18, 75, § 244; Lucil. ap. Fest. s. v. tama, p. 360 Müll.
  3. III. Crurum quoque tumor viae labore collectus bova appellatur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 30 Müll. (the same author explains with these words the disease tama).

bŏārĭus (bŏvārĭus, Cic. Aem. Scaur. 11, 23), a, um, adj. [bos], of or relating to neat cattle: NEGOTIANTES, Inscr. Orell. 913: forum, the cattle market at Rome (in the eighth district of the city, near the Circus Maximus): in foro bovario, Cic. Aem. Scaur. 11, 23; Paul. ex Fest. p. 30, 5 Müll.; acc. to Ov. F. 6, 478, so called from the large brazen statue of an ox placed there; cf. Plin. 34, 3, 5, § 10; Tac. A. 12, 24; acc. to fable, because Hercules fed here the herd which he took from Cacus, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 19; Liv. 10, 23, 3; 33, 27, 4; 21, 62, 3; Val. Max. 1, 6, 5; 2, 4, 7: lappa boaria, a plant, unknown to us, Plin. 26, 11, 66, § 105.

bŏo (with the digamma bŏvo, Enn.; v. infra), āre or ĕre, v. n. [from the root bo, kindr. with Sanscr. gu and the Gr. βοάω; cf. Varr. L. L. 7, § 104 Müll.; Non. p. 79, 4; acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 30 Müll. directly from the Gr.], to cry aloud, roar (mostly ante- and post-class., and in the poets).

      1. a. Bŏvo, āre: clamore bovantes, Enn. ap. Varr. 1. 1. (Ann. v. 571 Vahl.).
      2. b. Bŏo, ĕre: clamore et sonitu colles resonantes bount, Pac. ap. Non. 1. 1. (Trag. Rel. v. 223 Rib.; Varr. ib.; perh. in both pass. we should read boant; cf. Ussing ad Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 77).
      3. c. Bŏo, āre (the usual form): boat Caelum fremitu, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 77; Ov. A. A. 3, 450; App. Flor. 17.

bōs, bŏvis (prob. orig. form of nom. bŏ-vis, like bovare for boare, Petr. 62, 13; cf. Varr L. L. 8, § 74 Müll., where, acc. to Cod. B., the read. should be: nunc in consuetudine aliter dicere pro Jovis Juppiter, pro Bovis Bos, pro Strus Strues.
Hence, gen. plur. bŏvĕrum, Cato, R. R. 62 Schneid. N. cr.; cf. Varr. L. L. l. l.: alios dicere Boum greges, alios Boverum; v. Juppiter, nux, rex, sus, and Schneid. Gr. 2, p. 171.
Regular gen. boum very freq.; uncontracted form bovum, Cic. Rep. 2, 9, 16 Halm; Cod. Sang. Colum. 6, 17, 6; 6, 37, 11, and Cod. Reg. ib. 6, 38, 4; cf. Prisc. p. 773 P.
Dat. plur. contr. bōbus, Hor. C. 3, 6, 43; id. C. S. 49; id. Epod. 2, 3; Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159, twice; cf. Prisc. p. 773 sq. P.; but more freq. and class. būbus, even Cato, R. R. 6, 3; 54, 1; 54, 60; 54, 70; 54, 73; once bŭbŭs, Aus. Epigr. 62, 2; cf. on the other hand, Serv. ad Verg. E. 8, 86.
Exs. of the uncontracted form bovibus are entirely. wanting; v. Neue, Formenl. 1, 280 sqq.; 1, 289), comm.; generally masc. in prose (hence, femina bos, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 17; Liv. 25, 12, 13; 27, 37, 11; Col. 6, 24, 3; Plin. 8, 46, 71, § 186; Tac. G. 40) [from the root bo-, prop. the roaring, kindr. with Gr. βοῦς, βῶς; Sanscr. gō, gu].

  1. I. An ox, a bull, a cow; described by Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 176 sq.; Cato, R. R. 70 sq.; Varr. R. R. 1, 20, 1; 2, 1, 12 sq.; 2, 5, 7.
    In gen.: quia boves bini hic sunt in crumenā, i. e. the price of them, Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 16: Olympiae per stadium ingressus esse Milo dicitur, cum umeris sustineret bovem, Cic. Sen. 10, 33: consimili ratione venit bubus quoque saepe Pestilitas, Lucr. 6, 1131: quae cura boum, qui cultus habendo Sit pecori, Verg. G. 1, 3: bos est enectus arando, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 87; Verg. G. 3, 50 sq.; Col. lib. 6; Pall. Mart. 11, 1 sq.
    In fem.: actae boves, Liv. 1, 7, 6: bove eximiā captā de grege, id. 1, 7, 12; Ov. M. 8, 873; so, torva, Verg. G. 3, 52: cruda, Hor. Epod. 8, 6: intactae, id. ib. 9, 22: formosa, Ov. M. 1, 612: incustoditae, id. ib. 2, 684: vidisti si quas Boves, id. ib. 2, 700: forda, fecunda, id. F. 4, 630 and 631 al.
    Prov.: bovi clitellas imponere, to put a pack-saddle upon an ox, i. e. to assign one a duty for which he is not qualified, old Poët. ap. Cic. Att. 5, 15, 3 (in the form non nostrum onus: bos clitellas (sc. portabat), Quint. 5, 11, 21 Spald.); cf.: optat ephippia bos, piger optat arare caballus, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 43; and Amm. 16, 5, 10.
    Humorously, for a whip cut from neat’s leather, a raw hide: ubi vivos homines mortui incursant boves, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 20: bos Lucas, the elephant; v. Lucani, D.
  2. II. A kind of sea-fish of the genus of the turbot, Plin. 9, 24, 40, § 78; Ov. Hal. 94; cf. Plin. 32, 11, 54, § 152.

1. bova, v. boa.

2. bova, ae, f., a swelling of the legs: crurum tumor viae labore collectus bova appellatur, Fest. p. 25.

bŏvārĭus (boār-), a, um, adj. [bos], of or relating to horned cattle: arva, afterwards the site of the Forum Bovarium, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 19: Forum, the cattle-market, Varr. L. L. 5, § 146 Müll.: horam sibi octavam, dum in foro bovario inquireret, postulavit, Cic. Aem. Scaur. 11, 23; cf. Ov. F. 6, 473; Paul. ex Fest. p. 30 Müll.; Liv. 21, 62, 3; 33, 27, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.; 35, 40, 8; Val. Max. 1, 6, 5; 2, 4, 7; Plin. 34, 3, 5, § 10; Tac. A. 12, 24: lappa boaria, a kind of bur, Plin. 26, 11, 66, § 105: NEGOTIANTES, Inscr. Orell. 913.

bŏvātim, adv. [bos], after the manner of oxen or cows, Nigid. ap. Non. p. 40, 25 (others read boatim).

Bŏvĭānum, i, n., = Βοΐᾶνον, the name of two towns in Samnium.

  1. I. The principal place of the Pentri, now Boiano, Cic. Clu. 69, 197; Liv. 9, 28, 2 and 3; 9, 31, 4; 10, 43, 15; in Plin. 3, 12, 17, § 107, with the appel. Vetus, to distinguish it from,
  2. II. Bovianum Undecumanorum, prob. a place in the neighborhood of the preceding, occupied by the veterans of the eleventh legion, Plin. l. l.
    Hence, Bŏvĭānĭus, a, um, adj., of Bovianum: castra, Sil. 9, 566.
    Bŏvĭā-nus, a, um, adj.: ager, Gromat. Vet. p. 259, 23.

* bŏvĭcīdĭum, ii, n. [bos-caedo], a slaughtering of cattle, Sol. 1, § 10.

bŏvīle, v. bubile.

‡ bŏvilla, βουστασία, a cattle-stall, Vet. Gloss.

Bŏvillae (Bŏbellae, Tab. Peut.; Bŏbillae, Gromat. Vet. p. 231, 11), ārum, f. (Bŏvilla, ae, f., Front. Colon. p. 103).

  1. I. A small but very ancient town in Latium, a colony from Alba Longa, about twelve miles from Rome, on the Appian Way, and, until some time in the Middle Ages, the first station on it; it contained the Sacrarium of the Julian gens, Tac. A. 2, 41; 15, 23; id. H. 4, 2; 4, 46; Suet. Aug. 100; Flor. 1, 11, 6; Schol. Pers. 6, 55 al.; Vell. 2, 47, 4: suburbanae, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 33; Ov. F. 3, 667; Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 63; Inscr. Orell. 2625.
    At an inn in this town Clodius, previously attacked and wounded in the Temple of Bona Dea, was murdered by Milo, Ascon. Cic. Mil. Argum. (4).
    1. B. Derivv.
      1. 1. Bŏvil-lānus, a, um, adj., of Bovillœ: vicinitas, Cic. Planc. 9, 23: pugna, i.e. the killing of Clodius (with a play on the word bovillus), id. Att. 5, 13, 1 B. and K.
      2. 2. Bŏvillen-ses, ium, m., inhabitants of Bovillœ, Inscr. Fabr. p. 456, n. 74; so Fratr. Arval. Marin. p. 654.
  2. II. Bovillanus fundus, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, § 3, is referred to another place of the same name in the territory of the Arpini, otherwise unknown.

bŏvillus, a, um, adj., a very ancient form of the class. bubulus [bos].

  1. I. Of or pertaining to oxen or cows: grex, in an old religious formula, Liv. 22, 10, 3: carnes, Theod. Prisc. 1, 7.
    No comp. or sup.
  2. II. Bŏvillus, a, um, = Bovillanus; v. Bovillae, I. B. 1. fin.

bŏvīnātor, ōris, m. [bovinor].

  1. I. A brawler, blusterer, reviler, acc. to the Gloss.: bovinatores θορυβοποιοί, θρύλλον ποιοῦντες ἠ ταραχήν; v. bovinor.
  2. II. = tergiversator, one who seeks evasions (the figure drawn perh. from the holding back of draught cattle), Lucil. ap. Gell. 11, 7, 9; cf. Non. p. 79, 26.

‡ bŏvīnor, āri, v. dep. [bos], to bellow at, brawl, revile: bovinatur = conviciatur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 30, 12 Müll.: bovinator = conviciator, inconstans. Bovinari = conviciari, damnare, clamare, Vocab. Vet.

* bŏvīnus, a, um, adj., = bubulus [id.], of or pertaining to oxen or cows: medulla, Theod. Prisc. Diaeta, 15.

bŏvis, v. bos.

bŏvo, v. boo.

‡ bovus non nisi singularem numerum capit, nam pluralem nemo dixit, Charis. p. 58 (the signif. of this word, not used elsewh., is not given by Charis.).

būbīle (access. form bŏvīle, unus. acc. to Varr. L. L. 8, § 54 Müll.; although used by Cato, acc. to Charis. p. 81; and by Veg. 4, 1, 3), is, n. [bos], a stall for oxen: (boves) reicere in bubile, Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 18 Ritschl; Cato, R. R. 4; Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 1; Col. 1, 6, 4; Phaedr. 2, 8, 4.