būcĭna | buccĭna (noun F) = βυκάνη: (not )
* A crooked horn or trumpet (while tuba is usually the straight trumpet; cf. Veg. Mil. 3, 3, 5 Stewech.).
* Lit., a shepherd's horn, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 20: bucina inflata,id. ib. 3, 13, 1; Col. 6, 23, 3; Prop. 4 (5), 10, 29.
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* A war-trumpet: 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: 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; 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.
* Trop.: foedae bucina famae,the trump of ill fame,Juv. 14, 152; cf. bucinator, II.

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