 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |  |
|
Dictionary: Search the Dictionary Browse the Dictionary |
|
Timeline: Launch Interactive Timeline |
| Return to Front Page |
| BUCINA | |
| Form: properly "a cow-horn" | |
| was the name of a tin trumpet, shaped like a serpent, and blown by a trumpeter called bucinator. The bucina gave the signal called classicum, and also the call for relieving guard at night. | |
|
|
|
| Pictures and Media | |
| BUCINATOR.From a mural painting of gladiators (Gell and Gandy, Pompeiana, pl.75) |
|
|
Copyright 2000-2020 Peter T. Struck. No portion of this site may be copied or reproduced, electronically or otherwise, without the expressed, written consent of the author. |
 |
|