Bibaculus
Bĭbācŭlus, i, m. bibax, a Roman cognomen; e. g. of the poet M. Furius; of the prætor L. Furius, Liv. 22, 49, 16.

Bibaga
Bibaga, ae, f., an island near Gedrosia, Plin. 6, 21, 23, § 80.

Bibali
Bibali, ōrum, m., a people of Hispania Tarraconensis, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 28.

bibax
bĭbax, ācis, adj. bibo, given to drink, Nigid. ap. Gell. 3, 12.

Bibesia
Bĭbĕsĭa, ae, f., Drinkland, a comically formed name, Plaut. Curc. 3, 74: Perediam et Bibesiam Plautus finxit suā consuetudine, cum intellegi voluit cupiditatem edendi et bibendi, Fest. p. 214, 28 Müll.; cf. Peredia.

bibilis
bĭbĭlis, e, adj. bibo, drinkable, potable: cibus, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 11, 81.

bibliotheca
biblĭŏthēca (also bī^blĭŏthēcē, Cic. Fam. 13, 77, 3; Inscr. Grut. 584; and BYBL-, Inscr. Orell. 40; 41; 1172), ae, f., = βιβλιοθήκη, a library; and, as in Greek and English, both a library-room and a collection of books, Fest. p. 28. The expl. of Isidorus applies to the first signif.: bibliotheca est locus, ubi reponuntur libri, βίβλος enim Graece liber, θήκη repositorium dicitur, Isid. Orig. 15, 5, 5; cf. id. ib. 18, 9, 3; 6, 3, 1. The first public library at Rome was collected by Asinius Pollio A.U.C. 715, B.C. 39, in the atrium of the Temple of Liberty, Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 115; 35, 2, 2, § 10; Isid. Orig. 6, 5, 2; Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 71; Quint. 11, 3, 4. Augustus founded two others, the Octavian, named after his sister Octavia, A.U.C. 721, B.C. 33, near the Theatre of Marcellus, Plut. Vit. Marcell.; Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 60 and 69 Jahn; and five years after, the Palatine (Gr. and Lat.) Library, on the Palatine Hill, in the Temple of Apollo, Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 17; Suet. Aug. 29; Dio, 53, 1; Inscr. Orell. 40 and 41. Besides these there were other considerable libraries in Rome, e. g. in the Temple of Peace, Gell. 16, 8, 2; in the house of Tiberius, id. 13, 19; but esp. one founded by Trajan, id. 11, 17, and united by Diocletian with his Thermis, Vop. Prob. 2. Individuals also possessed large libraries, Cic. Fam. 7, 28, 2; id. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 5; id. Att. 4, 10, 1; id. Div. 2, 3, 8; id. de Or. 1, 44, 195; Quint. 10, 1, 104; 10, 1, 57; Plut. Lucull.; Hor. C. 1, 29, 13; Sen. Tranq. 9; Suet. Aug. 56; esp. at their country-seats, Cic. Fin. 3, 2, 7; Mart. 7, 17; Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 8 al.
The books were arranged in cases or on shelves along the walls (armaria, foruli, loculamenta, capsae).
The librarian, or person who had the charge of the books, was called a bibliothecā, Inscr. Orell. 40 and 41, or bibliothecarius, v. Dict. of Antiq.

bibliothecula
biblĭŏthēcŭla, ae, f. dim. id., a small library, a collection of books, Symm. Ep. 4, 18.

biblus
biblus, i, f., = βίβλος (βύβλος), the papyrus, a sort of rush that grew largely in Egypt, from the inner bark of which paper was made (poet. for the more usual papyrus): flumineae, Luc. 3, 222; cf. Plin. 13, 11, 22, § 71 sq.
Meton., paper, Sedul. 1, 6.

bibo
bĭbo, bĭbi (post-class. part. fut. bĭbĭtūrus, Hier. Isa. 8, 25, 8; Vulg. Matt. 20, 22; id. Act. 23, 12; Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 1, 1; part. perf. bĭbĭtus, a, um, Cael. Aur. Chron. 4, 3, 60; Capitol. Ver. 5, 3; Aem. Mac. c. de Porro; Plin. Val. 2, 18; inf. apocop. biber, Cato, Titin., and Fannii Annal. ap. Charis. p. 99), 3, v. a. root bi; Gr. πι‐, πίνω, πέπωκα; whence Lat. poto, as if from po; Sanscr. pī; Slav. piti; Lith. pota, to drink (usually from thirst, a natural want; poto, to drink from passion, habit, etc.; but poto is occasionally used of water, etc., e. g. Plin. 11, 37, 68, § 179; cf.: bibere naturae est, potare luxuriae, Isid. Diff. 1. 74; and the partt. potus and potatus are regularly used instead of the partt. of bibo). With acc. Of the liquid drunk: per aestatem boves aquam bonam et liquidam bibant semper curato, Cato, R. R. 73: jejunus heminam bibito, id. ib. 126: si voles vinum Choum bibere, licebit bibas, id. ib. 48: eapse merum condidicit bibere; foribus dat aquam quam bibant, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 4: vicit vinum quod bibi, Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 1: Darius in fugā cum aquam turbidam bibisset, Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97: patrono malo suadebat ut mulsum frigidum biberet, id. de Or. 2, 70, 282: viveret, nisi illud (i. e. venenum) bibisset, Quint. 8, 5, 31: bibo aquam, id. 6, 3, 93: cur apud te vinum aetate tuā vetustius bibitur? Sen. Vit. Beat. 17, 2: nisi Hy. mettia mella Falerno Ne biberis diluta, Hor. S. 2, 2, 15: et Veientani bibitur faex crassa rubelli, Mart. 1, 103, 9: lac bibere, to suck, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 22; id. M. 9, 377; 9, 615.
Also nutricem bibere (i. e. lac de nutrice), App. M. 2, p. 115, 29.
Poet.; Caecubam... Tu bibes uvam (i. e. vinum), Hor. C. 1, 20, 10: in usu radix tantum duabus drachmis bibenda (i. e. sucus radicis), Plin. 25, 6, 30, § 67. Pocula or cyathos bibere. Poet., = vinum (cf. πίνειν κρατῆρας): tristia cum multo pocula felle bibat, Tib. 1, 5, 50: ipse bibebam Sobria suppositā pocula victor aquā, id. 1, 6, 28: plura pocula = plus vini, id. 1, 9, 59; so, nomismata and aera, id. 1, 26, 3. Of the number of cups drunk at a merry-making: vide quot cyathos bibimus: St. Tot quot digiti sunt tibi in manu, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 24.
Esp. of the custom of drinking names, i. e. as many cups as there are letters in a name proposed; the number is frequently expressed by fractional parts of the as (uncia = a cyathus; quincunx = 5 cyathi, etc.): quincunces et sex cyathos bessemque bibamus, Gaius ut fiat, Julius, et Proculus, Mart. 11, 36, 7: crebros ergo licet bibas trientes, id. 1, 106, 8: diluti bibis unciam Falerni, id. v. 3 (cf. with potare: sextantes et deunces, id. 12, 28).
Hence, nomen bibere, Julium, etc., bibere: ut jugulem curas, nomen utrumque bibam, Mart. 8, 57, 26: Laevia sex cyathis, septem Justina bibatur, Quinque Lycas, Lyde quattuor, Ida tribus, id. 1, 71, 1 sq.: Astyanacta bibes, id. 8, 6, 16. Fluvium, undam, pruinas bibere (poet.). = aquam ex flumine bibere: priusquam Pabula gustassent Trojae Xanthumque bibissent, Verg. A. 1, 473: jam crassus torrens bibitur tamen, Stat. Th. 4, 821: puram bibis amnibus undam, Claud. Laud. Herc. 74. Trop., to arrive at the region of the river: non illum nostri possunt mutare labores, Nec si... Hebrumque bibamus Sithoniasque nives... subeamus (i. e. si Thraciam adeamus), Verg. E. 10, 65: ante... Aut Ararim Parthus bibet, aut Germania Tigrim Quam, etc., sooner will the Parthians come to Germany, or the Germans to the country of the Parthians, id. ib. 1, 63: turbaque Phasiacam Graia bibistis aquam, Ov. H. 12, 10.
Hence, Qui flumen bibunt, = the inhabitants of the country through which the river passes: qui Tiberim Fabarimque bibunt, Verg. A. 7, 715: qui profundum Danubium bibunt, Hor. C. 4, 15, 21: qui Nilum ex ipso protinus ore bibunt, Mart. 7, 88, 6: populosque bibentes Euphraten, Luc. 8, 213: qui te, Nile, bibit, Claud. Prob. et Olybr. 38.
So of an inland sea: caesamque bibens Maeotin Alanus, Claud. in Rufin. 1, 812.
Of a single person: extremum Tanaim si biberes, Lyce, Hor. C. 3, 10, 1.
Similarly, montium pruinas bibere, of the rivers fed by a mountain range: amniumque... quicunque Odrysias bibunt pruinas, Mart. 10, 7, 2: fluvios qui... Alpinasque bibunt de more pruinas, Claud. Prob. et Olybr. 255. Bibere aquas, to be drowned: neu bibat aequoreas naufragus hostis aquas, Ov. H. 7, 62.
Transf., of ships, to founder, to be wrecked: o utinam... Argo funestas pressa bibisset aquas! Ov. Am. 2, 11, 6. Sanguinem or cruorem bibere. Sanguinem, in a figurative sense, = sanguinem sitire: cujus sanguinem (Antonium) non bibere censeatis? (sitire, animo bibere), Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 10. Cruorem bibere, to draw blood, to kill: hasta virgineum alte bibit acta cruorem, Verg. A. 11, 803; Claud. in Rufin. 1, 78. Transf. to things other than liquids. Of concrete things: dixit et ardentes avido bibit ore favillas, breathed in, drew in (of the sparks of a funeral pyre), Mart. 1, 42, 5: vigilandae noctes et fuligo lucubrationum bibenda, inhale, Quint. 11, 3, 23. Figuratively, of abstract things. = cupideaudire, legere: pugnas et exactos tyrannos... bibit aure vulgus, eagerly listens to, Hor. C. 2, 13, 32: incipe: suspensis auribus ista bibam, Prop. 3, 4, 8: hinc ille justitiae haustus bibat, imbibe (by reading) the love of justice, Quint. 12, 2, 31: illa divino fruitur sermone parentis, maternosque bibit mores, Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 231. To imbibe, be affected with: infelix Dido, longumque bibebat amorem, Verg. A. 1, 749: totisque novum bibit ossibus ignem, the fire of love, Stat. Achill. 1, 303. To draw out, exhaust: nudae illae artes omnem sucum ingenii bibunt, Quint. prooem. 24. To swallow, i. e. forget: quamquam ego vinum bibo, mandata hau consuevi simul bibere una, Plaut. Pers. 2, 1, 3. Transf., of inanim. subjects, to absorb liquids, draw, imbibe them: id si feceris metreta oleum non bibet, Cato, R. R. 100.
So trop.: claudite jam rivos... sat prata biberunt, Verg. E. 3, 111: inriguumque bibant violaria fontem, id. G. 4, 32: quae (terra) bibit humorem, absorbs moisture, id. ib. 2, 218: amphora fumum bibere instituta, Hor. C. 3, 8, 11: mista bibunt molles lacrimis unguenta favillae, Ov. F. 3, 561: tunc bibit irriguus fertilis hortus aquas, Tib. 2, 1, 44: lanarum nigrae nullum colorem bibunt, take no color, Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 193; so, candorem (i. e. colorem candidum) bibere, id. 31, 11, 47, § 123: arcus bibit (aquas) and nubes bibunt (aquas), the rainbow, the clouds draw water (according to a popular belief among the ancients): cur bibit arcus aquas? Prop. 3, 5 (4, 4), 32: et bibit ingens Arcus, Verg. G. 1, 380.
And, jestingly, of an old woman given to drink: ecce autem, bibit arcus; hercle, credo, hodie pluet, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 39 (44): unde aures nubesque bibunt atque imbrifer arcus, Stat. Th. 9, 405.
So with object understood: bibite, festivae fores, with reference to the wine spilled, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 88: palma toto anno bibere amat, i. e. aquam, Plin. 13, 4, 7, § 28. Absol. (the obj. acc. understood). Sc. aquam: nec sitis est exstincta priusquam vita bibendo (of those seized by the plague), Ov. M. 7, 569. Of liquids in general: numquam sitiens biberat, Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97: edendi mihi erit bibendique finis desideria naturae restinguere, Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 5: ut nec bibant sine ambitione, nec edant, id. ib. 12, 5: conducit inter cibos bibere, Plin. 23, 1, 23, § 41: vino debemus homines quod soli animalium non sitientes bibimus, id. 23, 1, 23, § 42. Esp. of wine: es, bibe, animo obsequere mecum, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 82: quamquam illud est dulce, esse et bibere, id. Trin. 2, 1, 37: jam diu factum postquam bibimus: nimis diu sicci sumus, id. Pers. 5, 2, 45; id. Poen. 4, 2, 13: decet luxuriosum bibendo mori, Quint. 8, 5, 23: ut jejuni biberent, Plin. 14, 28 med.
Pass. impers. bibitur, they drink, he drinks, people drink: dies noctisque estur, bibitur, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 78: ab tertiā horā bibebatur, ludebatur, vomebatur, Cic. Phil. 2, 41, 104: bibitur usque eo dum de solio ministretur, id. Pis. 27, 67. With adverbs or adverbial phrases. Of manner: jucundius bibere, Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97; id. Att. 13, 52, 1: large, Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105: fit invitatio ut Graeco more biberetur, i. e. propinando, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66. With num. adv. denoting the number of cups: jam bis bibisse oportuit, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 122: sic ago, semel bibo, id. Rud. 3, 6, 46: plus quam deciens, Sextiliane, bibis, Mart. 1, 26, 10: quare bis deciens, Sextiliane bibis? id. 1, 11, 2. With abl. or prep. and abl. Of the liquid, river, etc.: de eo vino... bibito ante cenam, Cato, R. R. 114: a fonte bibatur... an lacu, Mart. 9, 99, 9: ab amne, id. 12, 11: ex aquā, Prop. 2, 30, 32: ex fonte, id. 4, 4, 14. Of the vessel. Abl.: gemmā, i. e. poculo ex gemmā facto, Verg. G. 2, 506: caelato = e poculo caelato, Juv. 12, 47: conchā, id. 6, 304: fictilibus, id. 10, 25: testā, Mart. 3, 82, 3: vitro, id. 1, 37, 2; 4, 85, 1: ossibus humanorum capitum, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 12.
And bibere understood: poscunt majoribus poculis, i. e. bibi, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66. With ex: ex solido auro, L. Varius ap. Macr. 6, 1: e gemmā, Prop. 3, 3, 26. With in: hac licet in gemmā bibas, Mart. 14, 120: in Priami calathis, id. 8, 6, 16: in auro, Sen. Thyest. 453: in argento potorio, Dig. 34, 12, 21: in ossibus capitum, Flor. 3, 4, 2. Particular phrases. Bibe si bibis = bibe nunc, si omnino bibere vis, a formula urging to drink, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 33; 5, 4, 51 (cf.: age, si quid agis, id. ib. 5, 4, 35). Dare bibere, to give to drink, a Grecism, perh. only in the foll. passages: date illi biber, Titin ap. Charis. p. 99 P. (Com. Rel. v. 78 Rib.): jubebat biber dari, Fann. Ann. ib: bibere da usque plenis cantharis, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 40 (45): quod jussi ei dari bibere, Ter. And. 3, 2, 4; cf.: ut Jovi bibere ministraret, Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65: ut bibere sibi juberet dari, Liv. 40, 47, 5: cf.: dare with subj.: tum vos date bibat tibicini, Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 16.
And with rel. and subj.: nimium dabat quod biberem, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 19: dat aquam quam bibant, id. Curc. 1, 3, 4. Prov.: aut bibat aut abeat, taken from the Greek banquets, in which the chairman (arbiter bibendi, Hor. C. 2, 7, 25) could demand unconditional submission to the drinking laws (ἢ πῖθι, ἢ ἄπιθι), Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 118.

Bibracte
Bibracte, is (abl. Bibracte, but -ti, Caes. B. G. 7, 55), n., = Φρούριον Βίβρακτα, Strabo; Αὐγουστόδουνον, Ptolem., the chief town of the Ædui, later Augustodunum, now Autun en Bourgogne, Dép. de Saōne et Loire, Caes. B. G. 1, 23; 7, 55; 7, 63; 7, 90; 8, 1; cf. Tac. A. 3, 43.
As a goddess: DEAE BIBRACTI, etc., Inscr. Orell. 1973.

Bibrax
Bibrax, actis (Bibe, Tab. Peuting.), f., a town in Gaul, in the territory of the Remi, now Bièvre, a small place between Laon and the river Aisne, Caes. B. G. 2, 6.

bibulus
bĭbŭlus, a, um, adj. 1. bibo. Lit., drinking readily, freely (poet. or in postAug. prose): bibulus Falerni, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 34: potores, id. ib. 1, 18, 91.
More freq., Transf., of inanim. things, that sucks in or absorbs moisture: harena, sand that imbibes, drinks up moisture, Lucr. 2, 376; Verg. G. 1, 114; Ov. M. 13, 901: lapis, a stone that absorbs moisture, Verg. G. 2, 348 (qui harenarius vocatur, Serv.); Col. 3, 15, 4: litus, Ov. H. 16 (17), 139: favilla, Verg. A. 6, 227: radix, Ov. M. 14, 632: talaria, moistened, id. ib. 4, 730: medulla, id. ib. 4, 744: ollae bibulae aut male coctae, Col. 12, 45, 3: papyrus, growing in moist places, Luc. 4, 136: charta, blotting-paper, Plin. Ep. 8, 15, 2; cf. Isid. Orig. 6, 10, 1: taenia papyri, Plin. 13, 12, 25, § 81: nubes, Ov. M. 14, 368 (cf. 1. bibo, B. 1.): lanae, absorbing or taking color, id. ib. 6, 9 (v. poto). Trop., of hearing (cf. 1. bibo, II.): aures, ready to hear, listening, Pers. 4, 50.

Bibulus
Bĭbŭlus, i, m., a proper name. L. Publicius Bibulus, a military tribune in the time of the second Punic war, Liv. 22, 53, 2. M. (in Appian. Civ. 2, 8, Αεύκιος) Calpurnius Bibulus, a contemporary of Cœsar, consul with him A.U.C. 695, Suet. Caes. 19; 20; 49; cf. Cic. Vatin. 9, 21; id. Fam. 1, 9, 12; id. Att. 1, 17, 11; 2, 14, 1; 2, 19, 2; 6, 1, 13; 6, 8, 5. C. Bibulus, an œdile A.U.C. 775, Tac. A. 3, 52.

bicessis
bĭcessis, is, m. bis-as, twenty asses, Varr. L. L. 5, § 170 Müll.; cf. as, I.

bicornis
bĭcornis, e bis-cornu. Adj., having two horns, two-horned (poet. or in postAug. prose): animal, Plin. 11, 46, 106, § 255: caper, Ov. M. 15, 304: fauni, id. H. 4, 49; id. F. 2, 268; 5, 99.
Poet., of a two-pronged fork: furcae, Verg. G. 1, 264; Ov. M. 8, 647: ferrum, Col. Poët. 10, 148.
Of the new moon, * Hor. C. S. 35.
Of rivers with two mouths (perh. only epith. ornans; cf. amnis init.): Rhenus, Verg. A. 8, 727: Granicus, Ov. M. 11, 763.
Of the top of Parnassus: jugum, Stat. Th. 1, 63 (cf. biceps). Subst.: bĭcornes, horned animals for sacrifice: AVRATA. FRONTE. BICORNES., Inscr. Orell. 2335.

bicorpor
bĭcorpor, ŏris, adj. bis-corpus, having two bodies, double-bodied (poet. and very rare; late prose form bĭcorpŏrĕ-us, Firm. Math. 2, 12): bicorpores Gigantes, Naev. Bell. Pun. 2, 14 (ap. Prisc. p. 679 P.): Pallas bicorpor, Att. ap. Prisc. p. 699 P.; and so besides only in Cic. in a transl. from Sophocl. Trachin.: manus, Tusc. 2, 9, 22.

bidens
bĭdens (old form duidens), entis (abl. bidenti, Lucr. 5, 209; Verg. Cir. 212; Pomp. ap. Gell. 16, 6, 7: bidente, Tib. 2, 3, 6; Verg. Cat. 8, 9; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 159; gen. plur. bidentium, Hor. C. 3, 23, 14: bidentum, Ov. M. 15, 575), adj. bis-dens, with two teeth (not in Cic.). Adj. Lit.: amica, i.e. anus, Auct. Priap. 82: bos, Paul. ex Fest. p. 35 Müll.: hostiae, Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 206. Transf., with two prongs, points, etc.: ancora, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 209: forfex, Verg. Cat. 8, 9: ferrum = forfex, id. Cir. 212. Subst. Masc., a heavy hoe or mattock with two crooked iron teeth; Gr. δίκελλα: valido bidenti ingemere, Lucr. 5, 209: Tib. 1, 1, 29; 1, 10, 49; 2, 3, 6: glaebam fran/gere bidentibus, Verg. G. 2, 400: duros jactare bidentis, id. ib. 2, 355: durus bidens et vomer aduncus, Ov. F. 4, 927: bidentibus soli terga convertere, Col. 4, 14, 1; 4, 17, 8; Pall. Jul. 5; cf. id. ib. 1, 43, 1; Dig. 33, 7, 8 al.
Hence, meton. for agriculture: bidentis amans, Juv. 3, 228. Fem. (old form duidens, Paul. ex Fest. p. 66 Müll.; cf. the letter B), an animal for sacrifice (swine, sheep, ox): bidentes hostiae, quae per aetatem duos dentes altiores habent, Jul. Hyg. ap. Gell. 16, 6, 14: bidentes sunt oves duos dentes longiores ceteris habentes, Paul. ex Fest. p. 33 Müll.; Isid. Orig. 12, 1, 9. It is more correct to understand by bidens an animal for sacrifice whose two rows of teeth are complete; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 4 Müll.: ambidens sive bidens ovis appellabatur, quae superioribus et inferioribus est dentibus, and in Heb. , the dual of , of the two rows of teeth; v. Gesen. Heb. Lex. under : mactant lectas de more bidentīs Legiferae Cereri, Verg. A. 4, 57 Forbig. ad loc; id. ib. 7, 93; 12, 170; * Hor. C. 3, 23, 14; Ov. M. 10, 227; 15, 575; Pompon. ap. Gell. 16, 6, 7; Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 206.
Transf. from the lang. of offerings to a general use = ovis, a sheep, Phaedr. 1, 17, 8.

bidental
bĭdental, ālis, n.; in the lang. of religion, a place struck by lightning, consecrated by the haruspices, and enclosed; so called from the offering, bidens, with which the lightning was propitiated (v. also puteal), Fest. p. 27; Non. p. 53, 26; cf. O. Müll. Etrusk. 2, p. 171; v. Dict. of Antiq. (perh. it is better to explain bidens here as = fulmen, from its forked form; thus Bidental = Fulminar, the temple, or the consecrated place of lightning): triste bidental Moverit incestus, * Hor. A. P. 471; Pers. 2, 27; Sid. Carm. 9, 191; App. de Deo Socr. p. 46, 41; Inscr. Orell. 2483; cf. Luc. 1, 606; 8, 864.
The priest of a bidental: BIDENTALIS, Inscr. Grut. 96, 5 and 6.

biduus
bidŭus, a, um, adj. bis-dies, continuing two days, of two days; as adj. only once, with tempus, Liv. 27, 24, 3, where tempus is prob. to be omitted; v. Weissenb. ad loc. But very freq. and class. as subst.: bīdŭum, ii, n. (sc. tempus), a period or space of two days, two days: sinito biduom aut triduom consudent (oves), Cato, R. R. 96, 1: biduum supererat, Caes. B. G. 1, 23; Ter. And. 2, 6, 9; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 17: in castra quae aberant bidui (sc. spatio), id. Att. 5, 16, 4; 5, 17, 1; cf. id. ib. 8, 14, 1: eximant unum aliquem diem aut summum biduum ex mense, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 52, § 129: rus ibo: ibi hoc me macerabo biduum, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 101 sq.; 2, 2, 52; 4, 2, 8; Cic. Att. 8, 14, 1; Nep. Att. 22, 3; Tac. A. 3, 13; 3, 17: supplicationes in biduum decretae, Liv. 10, 23, 1: per biduum, Cic. N. D. 2, 38, 96; Quint. prooem. 7: per insequens biduum, Liv. 30, 8, 4: uno die longior mensis aut biduo, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 52, § 129: biduo et duabus noctibus Adrumetum pervenit, Nep. Hann. 6, 3: biduo post, Suet. Caes. 16; so Caes. B. G. 1, 47 init.: post biduum, Suet. Caes. 43; id. Aug. 10: biduo continenti, id. Calig. 19; Tac. A. 11, 8; 14, 32.

biennium
bĭennĭum, ii, n. bis-annus, a period or space of two years, two years: jam biennium est, cum, etc., Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 35: intra tempus biennii, Col. 3, 9, 6: hoc factum est ferme abhinc biennium, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 2, 4 (imitated by Ps.-Plaut. Merc. prol. 12): biennium ibi perpetuum misera illum tuli, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 12; Caes. B. G. 1, 3; Cic. Phil. 5, 3, 7; Liv. 5, 14, 2: biennium provinciam obtinuit, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 93, § 216; 2, 4, 30, § 67: lex usum et auctoritatem fundi jubet esse biennium, id. Caecin. 19, 54; Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. 1; id. Inst. 1, 12, 9: biennio postquam abii, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 1, 1: comitia biennio habita, Liv. 5, 14, 2: matres, quae biennio durant, Plin. 11, 21, 24, § 73; Suet. Galb. 7: consulatum biennio post ultro petiit, id. Aug. 26: intra tempus bienni, Col. R. R. 3, 9, 6: intra biennium, Quint. 1, 2, 9: ultra biennium, Tac. A. 1, 1.

bifidus
bĭfĭdus, a, um, adj. bis-findo, cleft or divided into two parts (the usual form; rarer bifidatus and bifissus): bifidos relinquit Rima pedes, Ov. M. 14, 303: ridicae, Col. 4, 33, 4: lingua, Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 171: stirps, id. 17, 20, 34, § 150: cursus venarum, id. 16, 39, 76, § 195: iter, Val. Fl. 1, 570.

bifurcus
bĭfurcus, a, um, adj. bis-furca, having two prongs or points, two-pronged: ramus, two-forked, Ov. M. 12, 442: surculi, Col. 5, 11, 3: ferramentum, id. 3, 18, 6: arbores, Plin. 16, 30, 53, § 122: valli, Liv. 33, 5, 9.
Also, subst.: bĭfurcum, i, n., a fork, Col. 3, 18, 6.
Trop., of the place where two branches start, Col. 4, 24, 10.
Of the connection of two veins upon the head of draught-cattle, Veg. 2, 40, 2; hence, sudor mihi per bifurcum volabat, over the cheeks down to the neck, Petr. 62.

bigae
bīgae, ārum (in plur. through the whole ante-Aug. per.; cf. Varr. L. L. 9, 39, 142; 10, 2, 165; 10, 3, 177; Serv. ad Verg. A. 2, 272; Charis. p. 20 P.; post-Aug. also in sing. bīga, ae; so Stat. S. 1, 2, 45; 3, 4, 46; id. Th. 1, 338; Sen. Herc. Oet. 1520; Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 89; 35, 11, 40, § 141; Tac. H. 1, 86; Suet. Tib. 26; Val. Max. 1, 8; Inscr. Orell. 2545; Vulg. Isa. 21, 9; v. Neue, Formenl. 1, 462; v. also trigae and quadrigae), f. for bijugae from bis-jugum, a pair of horses or (rarely) of other animals; also, a two-horsed car or chariot: bigas primas junxit Phrygum natio: quadrigas Erichthonius, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202: Rhesi niveae citaeque bigae, Cat. 55, 26: Hector raptatus bigis, Verg. A. 2, 272: et nox atra polum bigis subvecta tenebat, id. ib. 5, 721; Val. Fl. 3, 211: roseae Aurorae, Verg. A. 7, 26 al.: cornutae, a team for ploughing, Varr. ap. Non. p. 164, 23; Isid. Orig. 18, 36, 1 and 2.
Stamped on a coin, Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 46; v. bigatus.
Adj.: equis bigis meare, Manil. 5, 3.

bigener
bĭgĕner, ĕra, ĕrum, adj. bis-genus, like degener from de-genus, and bicorpor from bis-corpus, descended from two different races, hybrid, mongrel, Paul. ex Fest. p. 33, 14 Müll.: muli et hinni bigeneri atque insiticii, Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 1.

Bigerra
Bigerra, ae, f., a town in Hispania Tarraconensis, in the province of the Bastitani, Liv. 24, 41, 11.

Bigerriones
Bĭgerrĭōnes, um (Bĭgerri, ōrum, Paul. Nol. Ep. ad Aus. 10, 246; Bĕgerri, Plin. 4, 19, 33, § 108), m., a Gallic people in Aquitania, now Bigorre, De/part. des hautes Pyre/ne/es, Caes. B. G. 3, 27. Derivv. Bĭgerrĭcus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to the Bigerriones: turbo, blowing from thence, Sid. Ep. 8, 12.
In fem. absol.: Bĭgerrĭca, ae, f. (sc. vestis), a warm shaggy garment, Sulp. Sev. Dial. 2, 1; Ven. de Vita S. Mart. 3, 49. Bĭgerrĭtā-nus, a, um, adj., of the Bigerriones: patria, Aus. Ep. 11 fin.

bignae
bignae, female twins, Paul. ex Fest. p. 33, 3 Müll. [contr. from bigenae, from bisgigno].

biiugus
bĭjŭgus, a, um (contr. form bīgus, Manil. 5, 3; cf. also bĭjŭgis, e), adj. id., yoked two together (poet.): leones, Lucr. 2, 602; Verg. A. 10, 253: equi, Mart. 1, 13, 8: serpentes, Val. Fl. 7, 218: currus, drawn by two horses, Lucr. 5, 1299: temo, Stat. Th. 2, 723: certamen = bigarum, the contest with the bigae, Verg. A. 5, 144. Subst.: bĭ-jŭgi, ōrum, m. (sc. equi), two horses yoked abreast: telo Admonuit bijugos, Verg. A. 10, 587; 10, 399: desiluit Turnus bijugis, i. e. from his chariot drawn by two horses, id. ib. 10, 453.

bilbo
bilbo, ĕre, v. n. onomatop., to make a noise like that of a liquid agitated in a vessel: bilbit factum est a similitudine sonitus, qui fit in vase. Naevius Bilbit amphora inquit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 34 Müll. (Com. Trag. v. 124 Rib.): bilbit βομβύζει, Gloss.

bilibra
bĭlībra. ae, f. bis-libra, two pounds: bilibrae farris, Liv. 4, 15, 6.

bilinguis
bĭlinguis, e, adj. bis - lingua, twotongued, double-tongued. Lit., having two tongues; humorously, of voluptuous persons kissing, Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 15; cf. id. Poen. 5, 4, 65. Transf. Tibiae, with two keys, Varr. ap. Non. p. 229, 24. Speaking two languages: bilinguis δίγλωσσος, Gloss.: bilingues Bruttates Ennius dixit, quod Bruttii et Osce et Graece loqui soliti sint, Paul. ex Fest. p. 35 Müll.; cf. Commod. p. 350: corvinus, Canusini more bilinguis, Hor. S. 1, 10, 30: sed jam bilingues erant, paulatim a domestico externo sermone degeneres, Curt. 7, 5, 29. Trop. Double-tongued, hypocritical, deceitful, false, treacherous: tamquam proserpens bestia, est bilinguis et scelestus, Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 28: edico prius, Ne duplicis habeatis linguas, ne ego bilinguis vos necem, id. Truc. 4, 3, 7 (cf. id. Poen. 5, 2, 74: bisulcilingua quasi proserpens bestia): quippe domum timet ambiguam Tyriosque bilinguis, Verg. A. 1, 661: homo, Phaedr. 2, 4, 25; Sil. 2, 56: os, Vulg. Prov. 8, 13: socii, Sil. 16, 157: insidiae, Claud. B. Gild. 284. Fabulae, having a double meaning, allegorical, Arn. 5, p. 228.

biliosus
bīlĭōsus, a, um, adj. bilis. full of bile, bilious: alvus, Cels. 2, 8: sputum, id. 2, 6' biliosa reicere, Scrib. 168.
Subst.: bīlĭō-sus, i, m., a bilious person, Cels. 1, 3.
Trop., hypochondriac: biliosus, quod sit semper tristis, ab umore nigro, qui bilis vocatur, Isid. Orig. 10, 30.

bilis
bīlis, is (abl. bili, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 95; Lucr. 4, 664; Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11; bile, Hor. C. 1, 13, 4; Petr. 124, 2; Plin. 22, 20, 23, § 49; Suet. Tib. 59; Pers. 2, 14; Juv. 13, 143; Inscr. Grut. 1040, 3), f. kindr. with galbus, gilbus; Germ. gelb. Lit., bile (the bilious fluid secreted by the liver, jecur, while fel is the vessel in which the fluid is contained): rufa, viridis, nigra, Ceis. 7, 18; Lucr. 4, 664; Cato, R. R. 156, 4; Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 137; id. Tusc. 4, 10, 23: bilem pellere, Plin. 23, 8, 74, § 142: trahere, id. 27, 4, 10, § 27: detrahere, id. 27, 12, 93, § 119.
In plur. biles, the yellow and black bile, Plin. 20, 9, 34, § 84: purgare, Scrib. Comp. 136 (cf. poet.: purgor bilem, Hor. A. P. 302). Esp.: bilis suffusa, the overflowing of bile, i.e. the jaundice, Plin. 22, 21, 26, § 54 (in Sen. Ep. 95, 16, called subfusio luridae bilis).
And so, bile suffusus, having the jaundice, jaundiced, Plin. 22, 20, 23, § 49. Trop. Anger, wrath, choler, ire, displeasure, indignation (v. jecur): non placet mihi cena, quae bilem movet, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 8; so Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 20: bilem alicui commovere, to stir up, excite, Cic. Att. 2, 7, 2: bile tumet jecur, Hor. C. 1, 13, 4: meum jecur urere bilis, id. S. 1, 9, 66: bilis inaestuat praecordiis, id. Epod. 11, 16: jussit quod splendida bilis, id. S. 2, 3, 141: expulit bilem meraco, id. Ep. 2, 2, 137: bilem effundere, to vent, Juv. 5, 159: turgescit vitrea bilis, Pers. 3, 8: cui sententiae tantum bilis, tantum amaritudinis inest, ut, etc., Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 2: videte metuendam inimici et hostis bilem et licentiam, Cic. Fragm. Clod. et Cur. 4, 4 B. and K. Atra (or nigra) bilis, black bile, for melancholy, sadness, dejection, μελαγχολία, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11: bilem atram generantes, quos μελαγχολικοὺς vocant, Scrib. Comp. 104.
Also as in Gr., = furor, rage, fury, madness: Am. Delirat uxor. So. Atra bili percita est, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 95; id. Capt. 3, 4, 64: bilis nigra curanda est, et ipsa furoris causa removenda, Sen. Ep. 94, 17.

bilix
bĭlix, līcis, adj. bis - licium, with a double thread, two-threaded: lorica, Verg. A. 12, 375 Heyn.; cf. trilix. ‡†† billis apud Afros appellatur semen humanum humi profusum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 34 Müll.

bimaris
bĭmăris, e, adj. bis - mare, lying between two seas. Lit., an epithet of Corinth (poet.; a favorite word of Ovid): bimarisve Corinthi Moenia, * Hor. C. 1, 7, 2; Ov. M. 5, 407: Ephyre, id. H. 12, 27: Isthmos, id. M. 7, 405; 6, 419 sq. Trop.: morbus, of one who practises unnatural unchastity, Aus. Epigr. 131.

bimaritus
bĭ-mărītus, i, m. bis, the husband of two wives (a word coined by Laterensis, the accuser of Plancius): bimaritum appellas, ut verba etiam fingas, Cic. Planc. 12, 30; and besides only in Hier. adv. Jovin. 1, n. 49.

bimatris
bĭmātris, e, adj. bis - mater, having two mothers, poet. epithet of Bacchus (v. Bacchus init.): satumque iterum solumque bimatrem, Ov. M. 4, 12; Hyg. Fab. 167; Anthol. Lat. 1, 19, 2 (where it is scanned bīmăter).

bimatus
bīmātus, ūs, m. bimus, the age of two years (of animals and plants): ante bimatum, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 17; Col. 7, 3, 6; 7, 4, 4: (polypi) ultra bimatum non vivunt, Plin. 9, 30, 48, § 89; 11, 21, 24, § 73: neque his bimatu longior vita, id. 9, 30, 48, § 93.
Of children, Vulg. Matt. 2; 16.

bimembris
bĭmembris, e, adj. bis - membrum, having double members: puer, half man, half beast, Juv. 13, 64; most freq. a poet. epithet of the Centaurs (half man, half horse; cf. bicorpor and biformis): Centauri bimembres, Sil. 3, 41: forma bimembris, Ov. H. 9, 99. Subst.: bĭmembres, ium, comm., = Centauri, the Centaurs: nubigenae, * Verg. A. 8, 293 Heyn. and Jahn; Ov. M. 12, 240; 12, 494; 15, 283; Stat. Th. 12, 554.

bimus
bīmus, a, um, adj. prob. contracted from bis-hiems, of two winters; cf. Eutych. ap. Cassiod. p. 2311 P., and Aufrecht, Zeitschrift für vergl. Sprachf. 4, p. 415, two years old, of two years, continuing two years: nuces, Cato, R. R. 17, 2; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 13: una veterana legio, altera bima, octo tironum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 3; so, semen, Plin. 18, 24, 54, § 195: surculi, id. 17, 14, 24, § 105: plantae, biennial, Pall. Febr. 25, 2: merum, * Hor. C. 1, 19, 15: nix, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 16: pensio, Mart. 12, 32, 3: honor, Ov. P. 4, 9, 64: aestimatio ususfructus, Dig. 33, 2, 6: si legatum sit relictum annua, bima, trima die, etc., i. e. solvendum intra annum, biennium, triennium, etc., ib. 33, 1, 3; cf. dies. In epist. style, as an abbreviated expression: bima sententia, the vote concerning the continuance of a provincial government for two years, Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 9.

bini
bīni, ae, a (in sing. only twice, Lucr. 4, 452, and 5, 877; gen. plur. always binūm, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 80, 4; Sall. H. 3, 22 Dietsch; Plin. 31, 6, 31, § 57; Scrib. Comp. 8), num. distr. [bis]. Two by two, two to each, two each, two at a time: nam ex his praediis talenta argenti bina Statim capiebat, every year two talents, Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 6: describebat censores binos in singulas civitates, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 133: si unicuique bini pedes (campi) assignentur, two to each, id. Agr. 2, 31, 84: distribuit binos (gladiatores) singulis patribus familiarum, id. Att. 7, 14, 2; Caes. B. C. 1, 25 fin.: annua imperia binosque imperatores sibi fecere, Sall. C. 6, 7: Carthagine quotannis annui bini reges creabantur, Nep. Hann. 7, 4: illos binas aut amplius domos continuare, Sall. C. 20, 11: si inermes cum binis vestimentis velitis ab Sagunto exire, Liv. 21, 13, 7: bini senatores singulis cohortibus propositi, id. 3, 69, 8; 10, 30, 10: dentes triceni bini viris attribuuntur, Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 71; 36, 9, 14, § 69. Taking the place of the cardinal number duo, with substt. which are plur. only, or with those which have a diff. signif. in the plur. from the sing. (cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 168): binae (litterae), two, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 9: bina castra, id. Phil. 12, 11, 27: binae hostium copiae, id. Imp. Pomp. 4, 9; Val. Max. 1, 6, 2: inter binos ludos, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 52, § 130; cf.: binis centesimis faeneratus est, id. ib. 2, 3, 70, § 165: bini codicilli, Suet. Oth. 10.
Esp.: bina milia, two thousand, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 80, 4: bina milia passuum, Quint. 6, 3, 77. Of things that are in pairs or double, a pair, double, two: boves bini, a yoke of oxen, Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 16; Lucr. 5, 1299: si forte oculo manus uni subdita supter Pressit eum... Omnia quae tuimur fieri tum bina tuendo, bina lumina, Binaque supellex, etc., Lucr. 4, 449 sqq.: corpus, id. 5, 879: binos (scyphos) habebam, a pair, two of like form, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 14, § 32: per binos tabellarios, id. Att. 6, 1, 9; id. Fam. 10, 33, 3: aeribus binis, Lucr. 4, 292: bina hastilia, Verg. A. 1, 313: aures, id. G. 1, 172: frena, id. A. 8, 168: fetus, id. E. 3, 30. Without subst.: nec findi in bina secando, into two parts, Lucr. 1, 534: si bis bina quot essent didicisset, Cic. N. D. 2, 18, 49. Bini, in mal. part. (cf. βινεῖ), Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 3.

binominis
bĭnōmĭnis, e, adj. bis-nomen, analog. to cognominis, from con-nomen, having two names (only in Ov. and in gen. sing.): binominis, cui geminum est nomen, ut Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Paul. ex Fest. p. 36 Müll.: Ascanius (also called Iulus), Ov. M. 14, 609: Ister (also called Danubius), id. P. 1, 8, 11; id. Ib. 415.

Bion
Bĭōn (in the class. per. perh. more correctly Bio, analog. to Plato, Meno, Dio, etc.), ōnis, m., = Βίων (ὁ Βορυσθενίτης, Strab.), a very witty philosopher of the Cyrenaic school, born at Borysthenes: facetum illud Bionis, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62.
Hence, Bĭōnēus, a, um, adj., Bionian, for witty, satirical, biting: hic delectatur iambis, Ille Bioneis sermonibus et sale nigro, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 60 Orell. ad loc. (Bioneis sermonibus, lividis jocis, id est, satira, Acro). Bion Soleus or Soleusis, a writer on agriculture, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 8; Plin. 6, 29, 35, § 178.

bipalmis
bĭpalmis, e (access. form bĭpalmus, a, um, App. Herb. 7), adj. bis-palmus, two spans long or broad, of two spans (very rare): tabulae, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 4: spiculum, Liv. 42, 65, 9.

bipartio
bĭ-partĭo (in MSS. also bĭ-pertĭo), no perf., ītum, 4, v. a. bis, to divide into two parts, to bisect (as verb. finit. very rare; more freq. in part. and adv.): ver bipartitur, is divided (in respect to weather), Col. 11, 2, 36; so, hiems bipertitur, id. 11, 2, 5 Schneid. N. cr.
Mostly part. pass.: bipartita divisio, Varr. L. L. 5, § 17 Müll.: genus bipartitum, Cic. Top. 22, 85: bipertiti Aethiopes, Plin. 5, 8, 8, § 43: ut faceres imperium bipartitum, Vulg. Ecclus. 47, 23.
Hence, bĭpartītō (bĭpert-), adv., in two parts or divisions, in two ways: bipartito classem distribuere, Cic. Fl. 14, 32; id. Phil. 10, 6, 13: signa inferre, to attack in two parties or divisions, Caes. B. G. 1, 25 Oud. N. cr.: collocare insidias in silvis, id. ib. 5, 32: equites bipertito in eos emissi magnam caedem edidere, Liv. 40, 32, 6: secta bipartito cum mens discurrit utroque, in two different directions, Ov. R. Am. 443.
With esse or fieri (cf. in Gr. δίχα εἶναι, γίγνεσθαι): ibi in proximis villis ita bipartito fuerunt ut Tiberis inter eos et pons interesset, Cic. Cat. 3, 2, 5 B. and K.: id fit bipartito, id. Inv. 2, 29, 86.

bipatens
bĭpătens, entis, adj. bis-pateo, opening in two ways, open in two directions (acc. to Serv. ad Verg. A. 10, 5, used by Enn.; cf. Ann. v. 62 Vahl.; but only two exs. in Verg. are preserved): portis alii bipatentibus assunt, i.e. portis duarum valvarum, Verg. A. 2, 330 Wagn.
Of the doors of the dwellings of the gods: considunt tectis bipatentibus, Verg. A. 10, 5 (est autem sermo Ennianus tractus ab ostiis, quae ex utrāque parte aperiuntur, Serv.).

bipeda
bĭpĕda, ae, f. bis-pes, a tile or flagstone two feet long, for pavements (several times in Pall., elsewh. very rare), Pall. 1, 19, 1; 1, 40, 2 and 5; id. Mai, 11, 2 (twice); Inscr. Fabr. p. 511, 159 (cf. Vitr. 7, 1 fin.: tegulae bipedales).

bipedalis
bĭpĕdālis, e, adj. id., two feet long, broad, or thick (class. in prose and poetry): fenestrae, Cato, R. R. 14, 2: trabes, two feet thick, Caes. B. G. 4, 17: materia, id. B. C. 2, 10: sol huic (Epicuro) bipedalis fortasse videtur, * Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20: adulescentulus bipedali minor, * Suet. Aug. 43: tegulae, Vitr. 7, 1 fin.: modulus, Hor. S. 2, 3, 309: hiatus, Plin. 16, 12, 23, § 57: latitudo, Col. 8, 3, 7. Subst.: bĭpĕdāle, is, n., a tile or flag-stone two feet long, Inscr. Fabr. p. 500, 39.

bipedaneus
bĭpĕdānĕus, a, um, adj. bis-pes, two feet long, wide, or thick (a rare access. form of bipedalis; most freq. in Col.): scrobs, Col. 4, 1, 2: spatia, id. 4, 30, 5: humus, id. 2, 2, 21 Gesn. and Schneid. N. cr.: latitudo, id. 5, 5, 2; 11, 2, 28: pastinatus, Plin. 17, 20, 32, § 143.

bipennifer
bĭpennĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. 2. bipennis-fero, bearing a two-edged axe (only in Ov.): Lycurgus, Ov. M. 4, 22; id. Tr. 5, 3, 39: Arcas, id. M. 8, 391.

bipennis
bĭpennis (-pinnis), e, adj. bispenna, having two wings, two-winged (very rare): insectum, Plin. 11, 28, 33, § 96 (cf. just before, binis advolat pinnis): plumae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 79, 17.

bipennis
bĭpennis, e (acc. sing. reg. bipennem, Varr. ap. Non. p. 79, 19; Verg. A. 5, 307; 11, 651; Petr. 132, 8; Juv. 6, 657; Claud. in Eutr. 1, 333; Sil. 5, 64: bipennim, only in Ov. M. 8, 766, with the var. lect. bipennem.
Abl. sing. reg. bipenni, Verg. A. 2, 479; Ov. M. 12, 611; Petr. 89, 24; Sen. Herc. Oet. 800; Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 345; id. Rapt. Pros. 3, 79; 3, 377; Sil. 16, 264; and in prose, Plin. 8, 8, 8, § 26: bipenne, only once, Tib. 1, 6, 47) [bis-pinna]. Adj., having two edges, two-edged: securis, Varr. ap. Non. p. 79, 19: ferrum, Verg. A. 11, 135.
Far more freq., Subst.: bĭpen-nis, is, f. (sc. securis; cf. Prisc. p. 652 P.), an axe with two edges, a battle-axe (mostly poet.; only found in the nom., dat., acc., and abl. sing., and in nom. and abl. plur.): bipennis dicitur, quod ex utrāque parte habeat acutam aciem, quasi duas pennas. Pennum autem antiqui acutum dicebant, Isid. Orig. 19, 19, 11; cf. id. ib. 11, 1, 46: a pinnā (quod est acutum) securis utrinque habens aciem bipennis, Quint. 1, 4, 12: correptā dura bipenni Limina perrumpit, Verg. A. 2, 479; 2, 627; 11, 135; id. G. 4, 331; Ov. M. 5, 79; 12, 611; Phaedr. 4, 6, 7; Tac. Agr. 10: duris ut ilex tonsa bipennibus, Hor. C. 4, 4, 57; so Claud. in Eutr. 2, 414; id. Laud. Stil. 1, 231; Plin. 8, 8, 8, § 26; Sil. 16, 264.

biremis
bĭrēmis, e, adj. bis-remus. Twooared, having two oars (rare): lembi, Liv. 24, 40 init.: scapha, * Hor. C. 3, 29, 62.
Also, Subst.: bĭrēmis, is, f., a small vessel with two oars, Luc. 10, 56; 8, 562. Freq. in an extended signif., having two banks of oars; only subst., a galley with two banks of oars (cf. Dict. of Antiq.; first used by the Erythræans, acc. to Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 207), Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 20, § 51; 2, 5, 23, § 59; Caes. B. C. 3, 40; Tac. H. 4, 27; 5, 23; Claud. B. Gild. 369; id. Laud. Stil. 1, 367; Suet. Caes. 39; id. Aug. 16; id. Calig. 15 al.

bis
bis, adv. num. for duis, from duo; like bellum from duellum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 66 Müll.; cf. Cic. Or. 45, 153, and the letter B, twice, at two times, on two occasions, in two ways, = δίς (very freq. in prose and poetry). In gen.: inde ad nos elisa bis advolat (imago), Lucr. 4, 315; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 6; Hor. Epod. 5, 33; id. A. P. 358; 440; Verg. A. 6, 32; Ov. M. 4, 517 al.: non semel sed bis, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 77, § 179: semel aut bis, Quint. 11, 2, 34: bis ac saepius, id. 10, 5, 7; Nep. Thras. 2, 5: bis mori, Hor. C. 3, 9, 15: bis consul, who has been twice consul in all (diff. from iterum consul, who is a second time consul), Cic. Ac. 2, 5, 13; id. Lael. 11, 39; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 23, § 59; Liv. 23, 30, 15; 23, 31, 6; 23, 34, 15; 25, 5, 3; cf. Val. Max. 4, 1, 3; Suet. Ner. 35.
Sometimes (among later writers) for iterum, now a second time: bis consul, Mart. 10, 48, 20; Prid. Kal. Febr.; Coll. Leg. Mos. et Rom. 1, § 11. Bis is followed by, Semel ... iterum, Cic. Dom. 52, 134: bis dimicavit: semel ad Dyrrhachium, iterum in Hispaniā, Suet. Caes. 36; so id. Aug. 25; id. Tib. 6; 72; id. Claud. 6; cf. Wolf, ejusd. id. Tib. 6. Primo... rursus, Suet. Aug. 17; 28. Et rursus, without a preceding primo, Suet. Aug. 22; id. Tib. 48. Transf., doubly, twofold, in two ways, in a twofold manner: bis periit amator, ab re atque animo simul, Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 26: nam qui amat cui odio ipsus est, bis facere stulte duco; laborem inanem ipsus capit, et illi molestiam adfert, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 8 sq.: in unā civitate bis improbus fuisti, cum et remisisti quod non oportebat, et accepisti quod non licebat, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 23, § 59: in quo bis laberis, primum, quod... deinde, quod, etc., id. Phil. 8, 4, 13: inopi beneficium bis dat qui dat celeriter, Publ. Syr. v. 235 Rib.: bis gratum est, id. v. 44 ib.: bis est mori alterius arbitrio mori, id. v. 50 ib. Particular connections. Bis in die, mense, anno, etc., or bis die, mense, anno, etc., twice a day, month, year, etc.; cf. Suet. Aug. 31 Oud.; id. Galb. 4; id. Vit. Ter. 2: bis in die, Cic. Tusc. 5, 35, 100; Cato, R. R. 26; 87: bis die, Tib. 1, 3, 31; Verg. E. 3, 34; Hor. C. 4, 1, 25; Cels. 1, 1; 1, 8; 3, 27, n. 2; Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 146; cf. cotidie, Liv. 44, 16, 5: in mense, Plin. 11, 18, 19, § 59; Suet. Aug. 35: in anno, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 7: anno, Plin. 2, 73, 75, § 184. With other numerals, and particularly with distributives (class. in prose and poetry): bis binos, Lucr. 5, 1299; Cic. N. D. 2, 18, 49: bis quinos dies, Verg. A. 2, 126; Mart. 10, 75, 3; Ov. F. 3, 124: bis senos dies, Verg. E. 1, 44: bis septeni, Plin. 8, 36, 54, § 127: bis octoni, Ov. M. 5, 50: bis deni, Verg. A. 1, 381; Prop. 2 (3), 9, 3; Mart. 9. 78: bis quinquageni, id. 12, 67: bis milies, Liv. 38, 55, 12; Auct. B. Afr. 90; Val. Max. 3, 7, 1. Esp., with cardinal numbers to express twice a given number (in the poets very freq., but not in prose): bis mille sagittae, Lucr. 4, 408; so Hor. Epod. 9, 17: bis sex, Varr. ap. Prob. Verg. E. 6, 31, p. 354 Lion.; Verg. A. 11, 9: bis quinque viri, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 24; Ov. M. 8, 500; 8, 579; 11, 96: bis trium ulnarum toga, Hor. Epod. 4, 8: duo, Ov. M. 13, 642: centum, id. ib. 5, 208 and 209; 12, 188: quattuor, id. ib. 12, 15: sex, id. ib. 6, 72; 6, 571; 4, 220; 12, 553; 12, 554; 15, 39: septem, id. ib. 11, 302: novem, id. ib. 14, 253 al. Bis terve, two or three times, very rarely: a te bis terve summum et eas perbrevis (litteras) accepi, Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 1: quem bis terve bonum cum risu miror, Hor. A. P. 358. Bis terque, several times, repeatedly, Mart. 4, 82, 3; cf.: stulte bis terque, utterly, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 6. Bis tanto or tantum, twice as great, twice as much: bis tanto amici sunt inter se quam prius, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 62; id. Men. 4, 3, 6; id. Merc. 2, 2, 26: bis tantum quam tuus fundus reddit, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 15: Tartarus ipse Bis patet in praeceps tantum, quantus, etc., Verg. A. 6, 578. Bis ad eundem (sc.: lapidem offendi, as in Aus. Ep. 11 med.); prov., to commit the same error twice, Cic. Fam. 10, 20, 2. Bis minus, in an old enigma in Gell. 12, 6, 2, whose solution is Terminus (ter-minus): semel minusne an bis minus, non sat scio: at utrumque eorum, ut quondam audivi dicier, Jovi ipsi regi noluit concedere.!*? In composition, bis, like the Gr. δίς, loses the s: biceps, bidens, bifer, bigener, bijugus, bilix, etc.; hence bissenus, Sen. Agam. 812; id. Herc. Fur. 1282; Stat. Th. 3, 574; and bisseni, id. ib. 12, 811; Aus. Monos. Idyll. 12, and Prud. Cath. 12, 192, are better written as two words: bis senus (seni); so either bisextus, or as two words, bis sextus (Stat. S. 4, 1, 9); v. bisextus.

Bisaltis
Bīsaltis, ĭdis, f., = Βισαλτίς, Theophane, daughter of Bisaltes, changed by Neptune into a ewe: Bisaltida (Gr. acc.), Ov. M. 6, 117; cf. Hyg. Fab. 188.

Bisambritae
Bisambritae, ārum, m., a people on the Indus, Plin. 6, 20, 23, § 78.

Bisanthe
Bisanthē, ēs, f., = Βισάνθη, a town in Thrace, on the Propontis, a colony of the Samians, afterwards called Ῥαιδεστός, now Rodosto, Mel. 2, 2, 6; Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 43; Nep. Alcib. 7, 4.

biseta
bĭsēta porca dicitur. cujus a cervice setae bifariam dividuntur, etc., Paul. ex Fest. p. 33 Müll. [bis-seta].

Bisgargitani
Bisgargĭtāni, ōrum, m., a people of Hispania Tarraconensis, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 23.

bisulcilingua
bĭsulcĭlingua, ae, adj. bisulcuslingua, with a cloven tongue; trop., of a hypocrite, a double-tongued, deceitful person: bisulcilingua, quasi proserpens bestia, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 74.

bisulcus
bĭsulcus, a, um, adj. bis-sulcus (twofurrowed), hence, in gen., divided into two parts, two-cleft, cloven (poet. and in postAug. prose): lingua, forked, Pac. ap. Non. p. 506, 17; Ov. M. 9, 65: pedes, * Lucr. 2, 356; Ov. M. 7, 113; Plin. 11, 45, 105, § 254: ungula, a cloven hoof, id. 8, 21, 30, § 73; 10, 1, 1, § 1: cauda, id. 9, 29, 46, § 85: forcipes, id. 11, 28, 34, § 97. Subst.: bĭsulca, ōrum, n. (sc. animalia), animals with cloven feet (opp. to the solidipedes), Plin. 11, 37, 85, § 212: cornigera fere bisulca, id. 11, 46, 106, § 255; 10, 65, 84, § 184; 10, 73, 93, § 199.
Rare in sing.: bisulcum oryx, Plin. 11, 46, 106, § 255.

bisyllabus
bĭsyllăbus, a, um, adj. bis-syllaba, dissyllabic: sic Socer, Macer. Varr. L. L. 9, 52, 151.
Spelled bissyllăbus, Macr. Diff. 6, 8; 8, 11.

Bithiae
Bithiae, ārum, f., the name of certain women in Scythia, said to have two pupils in each eye, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 17.

Bithynia
Bīthȳnĭa, ae, f., = Βιθυνία, a very fruitful province in Asia Minor, between the Propontis and the Black Sea, where the Romans carried on a considerable trade (its inhabitants were, acc. to Herod. 7, 75, Thracians, who had wandered there), now Ejalet Anadoli, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, § 27; id. Agr. 2, 18, 40; id. Imp. Pomp. 2, 5; id. Fam. 13, 9, 1; 12, 13, 3; Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 148; Tac. A. 1, 74; 16, 18; Flor. 3, 5, 6 and 12; Claud. in Eutr. 2, 247; Vulg. Act. 16, 7. Derivv. Bīthȳnĭcus, a, um, adj., Bithynian, of Bithynia: societas, Cic. Fam. 13, 9, 2: civitates, Plin. Ep. 10, 115: Nicomedes, Flor. 3, 5, 3: Volusius, Juv. 15, 1.
Also an agnomen of Q. Pompeius, as conqueror of Bithynia, Fest. s. v. rutrum, p. 223; Cic. Brut. 68, 240.
And of the son of the same, Cic. Fam. 6, 16; 6, 17; 16, 23, 1. Bīthȳnĭus, a, um, adj., Bithynian: Diophanes, Col. 1, 1, 10.
And in plur.: Bīthȳnĭi, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Bithynia, Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 69. Bīthȳ-nus (once Bithȳnus, Juv. 7, 15 Jahn), a, um, adj., Bithynian: carina, Hor. C. 1, 35, 7: mare, Tac. A. 2, 60: tyrannus, Juv. 10, 162: equites, id. 7, 15: caseus, Plin. 11, 42, 97, § 241: negotia, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 33.
And in plur.: Bīthȳni, ōrum, m., = Βιθυνοί, the inhabitants of Bithynia, Mel. 1, 2, 6; 1, 19, 1; 2, 7, 2; Plin. 5, 32, 41, § 145; 5, 32, 43, § 150; Tac. A. 12, 22; 14, 46; Claud. in Eutr. 1, 201; 2, 239 and 467. Bīthȳ-nis, ĭdis, f., = Βιθυνίς. A Bithynian woman, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 25. A town on the island Thynias, in the Pontus Euxinus, Mel. 2, 7, 2. An otherwise unknown town in Thrace, Mel. 2, 2, 6. Bīthȳ-nĭon, ii, n., = Βιθύνιον, a town in Bithynia, afterwards called Claudiopolis, Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149.

Bitias
Bĭtĭas, ae, m. A Tyrian nobleman at Dido's court, Verg. A. 1, 738. Son of Alcanor, and a companion of Æneas, Verg. A. 9, 672; 11, 396.

bitienses
bītĭenses, ĭum, m. beto, those who are continually wandering about, Paul. ex Fest. p. 35 Müll.

Bittis
Bittis, ĭdis, f., = Βιττίς, a woman beloved by the poet Philetas of Cos, Ov. Tr. 1, 6, 2; id. P. 3, 1, 58 Merkel (al. Battis).

Bituitus
Bituītus, i, m., a king of the Arverni, Liv. Epit. 61; Flor. 3, 2, 5; Eutr. 4, 22; Val. Max. 9, 6, 3.

bitumen
bĭtūmen, ĭnis, n. cf. Sanscr. gatu, gum, bitumen, a kind of mineral pitch found in Palestine and Babylon, Gr. ἄτφαλτος, Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 178 sq.; Tac. H. 5, 6; 5, 17; Just. 1, 2, 7; Vitr. 2, 6; Lucr. 6, 808; Verg. G. 3, 451; Ov. M. 9, 660; 14, 792; Vitr. 8, 3, 1 sqq.: Judaicum, Veg. 1, 20, 1; 3, 56, 2; 5, 83, 3; 6, 14, 1: Apollonium, id. 6, 14, 1; Vulg. Gen. 6, 14.
For magical or religious use, Verg. E. 8, 82; Hor. Epod. 5, 82; Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 325.

bitumineus
bĭtūmĭnĕus, a, um, adj. bitumen, consisting of bitumen, bituminous: vires, a poet. circumlocution for bitumen, Ov. M. 15, 350.

bitumino
bĭtūmĭno, āre, 1, v. a. id., to cover or impregnate with bitumen (late Lat.), Ambros. Hexaëm. 6, 9, 72; cf.: bitumino, ἀσφαλτόω, Gloss. Lab.
Hence, P. a.: bĭtū-mĭnătus, a, um, impregnated with bitumen, bituminous: aqua, Plin. 31, 6, 32, § 59.

bituminosus
bĭtūmĭnōsus, a, um, adj. id., abounding in bitumen, bituminous (perh. only in the two foll. exs.): terra, Vitr. 8, 3, 9: fontes, id. 8, 3, 4.

Bituriges
Bĭtŭrĭges, um (in sing. Biturix, Luc. 1, 423), m., = Βιτούρι^γες, the Bituriges, a people in Gallia Aquitania, divided into two tribes. Bituriges Cubi, Βιτ. Κοῦβοι, Strab., the present Berry, Départ. du Cher. et de l'Indre, whose capital was Avaricum, now Bourges, Plin. 4, 19, 33, § 109; and without Cubi, Caes. B. G. 7, 5; 7, 15; Hirt. B. G. 8, 3. Bituriges Vivisci, Βιτ. Οὐϊσκοί, Ptol., whose chief city was Burdigala, now Bordeaux, Plin. 4, 19, 33, § 108.
Sing. Biturix, one of the Bituriges, Luc. 1, 423; Inscr. Orell. 190. Deriv.: Bĭ-tŭrĭcus, a, um, adj., of the Bituriges: vitis (very much valued), Col. 3, 2, 19; 3, 7, 1; 3, 9, 1; 3, 21, 3 and 10. Also in the form Bĭtŭrĭgĭăcus, a, um, Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 27.

biuri
bĭūri, ōrum, m. vox hibrida, from bis-οὔρα, two-tailed, the name of rodent animals found in Campania, otherwise unknown, Plin. 30, 15, 52, § 146.