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būcĭna (not buccĭna), ae, f., = bukanê, a crooked horn or trumpet (while tuba is usually the straight trumpet; cf. Veg. Mil. 3, 3, 5 Stewech.).I.Lit., a shepherd ' s horn, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 20:II.bucina inflata,
id. ib. 3, 13, 1; Col. 6, 23, 3; Prop. 4 (5), 10, 29.—Transf.A.A war-trumpet:2.bello dat signum rauca cruentum Bucina,
Verg. A. 11, 475:quā bucina signum Dira dedit,
id. ib. 7, 519.—In gen., as a signal employed in changing the four night-watches, and for waking the soldiers (cf. Dict. of Antiq.):te gallorum, illum bucinarum cantus exsuscitat,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22:ubi secundae vigiliae bucinā datum signum esset,
Liv. 7, 35, 1; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 63; Sil. 7, 154.—Hence, meton.: ad primam, secundam, etc., bucinam (for vigiliam), at the first, second, etc., watch:B.ut ad tertiam bucinam praesto essent,
Liv. 26, 15, 6.—It was also blown at the end of the evening meal, Tac. A. 15, 30 Nipp. ad loc.—In other spheres of life;C.so for calling assemblies of the people: bucina datur: homines ex agris concurrunt,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44, § 96:bucina cogebat priscos ad verba Quirites,
Prop. 4 (5), 1, 13; Curt. 3, 3, 8.—For designating the hours of the day (which were divided into four parts),
Sen. Thyest. 799; cf. bucino.—Poet., a kind of circular, winding shell on which Triton blew, Triton ' s shell, Ov. M. 1, 335 and 337; cf. bucinator.—D.Trop.:foedae bucina famae,
the trump of ill fame, Juv. 14, 152; cf. bucinator, II.
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