BRUTUS AND CICERO.  Cicero says:  [Latin:  “Caesare interfecto, statim, cruentum alte extollens M. Brutus pugionem Ciceronem nominatim exclamavit, atque ei recuperatam libertatem est gratulatus."]—­Philipp. ii. 12.

When Brutus rose, Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar’s fate,... [he] called aloud On Tully’s name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the “father of his country” hail.

Akenside, Pleasures of Imagination, i.

BRY’DONE (Elspeth), or Glendinning, widow of Simon Glendinning, of the Tower of Glendearg.—­Sir W. Scott, The Monastery (time, Elizabeth).

BUBAS’TIS, the Dian’a of Egyptian mythology.  She was the daughter of Isis and sister of Horus.

BUBENBURG (Sir Adrian de), a veteran knight of Berne.—­Sir W. Scott, Anne of Geierstein (time, Edward IV.).

BUCCA, goblin of the wind in Celtic mythology, and supposed by the ancient inhabitants of Cornwall to foretell shipwreck.

BUCEN’TAUR, the Venetian state galley used by the doge when he went “to wed the Adriatic.”  In classic mythology the bucentaur was half man and half ox.

BUCEPH’ALOS ("bull-headed"), the name of Alexander’s horse, which cost L3500.  It knelt down when Alexander mounted, and was thirty years old at its death.  Alexander built a city called Bucephala in its memory.

The Persian Bucephalos, Shibdiz, the famous charger of Chosroes Parviz.

BUCK CHEEVER, mountaineer and “moonshiner” in Charles Egbert Craddock’s In the Stranger People’s Country.

He had been a brave soldier, although the flavor of bushwhacking clung to his war record; he was a fast friend and a generous foe; what one hand got by hook or by crook—­chiefly, it is to be feared, by crook—­the other made haste to give away (1890).

BUCK FANSHAWE, a popular Californian in the days when Lynch Law was in vogue in mining districts.  He dies, and his partner seeks a clergyman to arrange for the funeral, which “the fellows” have determined shall be the finest ever held in the region.  The divine questions in his professional vein and the miner answers in his, each sorely puzzled to interpret the meaning of his companion.

  “Was he a—­ah—­peaceable man?”

“Peaceable! he jest would have peace, ef he had to lick every darned galoot in the valley to git it.”—­Mark Twain, Buck Fanshawe’s Funeral, (1872).

BUCK GRANGERFORD, a spirited son of the Grangerford clan, who pays with his life for fealty to family and feud.—­Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).

BUCK’ET (Mr.), a shrewd detective officer who cleverly discovers that Hortense, the French maid-servant of lady Dedlock, was the murderer of Mr. Tulkinghorn, and not lady Dedlock, who was charged with the deed by Hortense.—­C.  Dickens, Bleak House (1853).