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454 BUBENTUU. when they reached Babastb, then held they a won- droiulj solemn feast: and more wine of the grape was drank in thoee days than in all the rest of the year. Snch was the manner of this fSastival : and, it is said, that as many as seven hnndred thousand pilgrims have been known to celebrate the Feast of Pasht at the same tijie. [W. B. D.] BUBENTUM (Bovtfcrrai^s), a city of Latinm, mentioned by Dionysios (v. 61) as one of the thirty which composed tbs Latin League. No other notice ia fonnd of it, except that the Babetani (which should probably be written Bubentani) are found in Pliny's list of the extinct ^ populi " of Latium: and there is no clue to its position. [E. H. B.] BUBON (Bo^wv). Stephanos («. v. Boi^y) observes that "Bubon and Balbura are cities of Lycia: " the Ethnic name he adds, *^ ought to be Bav^fi^MS, but it is Bav€»vt6ff for the Lycians re- joice in this form." The truth of this observation of Stephanns is proved by the inscription found (m the spot: Bov€«yc«v ^ BovAi| ical 6 Arifjun» Bubon is placed in the map in Spratt^s Lycia, near 37° N. lat west of Balbura, near a place named Eb<gik^ and on a small stream that flows into the Indus, or Hot' toom Tchy» Bubon is mentioned bj Pliny, Pto- lemy, and Hierodes, and Pliny (xxxv. 17) mentions a khid of chalk (creta) that was found about Bubon. The city stood on a hill side. The ruins are not striking. There is a small theatre built of sand- stone, and on the summit of the hill was the Acro- polis. Bubon is in a mountainous tract, which sepa- rates the basins of the Indus and the Xanthus, and it commands the entrance to the pass over the mountains. The pass is 6000 feet above the sea, and the monntains on each side of it 8000 or 9000 feet high. [Balbura ; Gabaub ; Cibtba.] (Spratt's Lffday vol. i. p. 264.) [G. L.] BUG A (BovKa: £eA.Bucanus), a city of tho Fren- tani on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It is mentioned by all the geographers as one of the chief cities of the Frentani, but there is considerable difficulty in regard to its site. Strabo describes it as the south- ernmost of the Frentanian cities, so that its territory bordered on that of Teanum in Apulia. In another passage he tells us that it was 200 stadia from the mouth of a lake near the Gaiganus, which can cer- tainly be no other than the Lc^ di Lesma, Ptolemy also places it between the month of the Tifemus and Histonium : but Pliny, on the contrary, enumerates it between Histonium and Ortona; and Mela, though less distinctly, appears also to place it to the N. of Histonium. (Strab. v. p. 242, vi. p. 285 ; Plin. iii. 12. s. 17 ; Ptol. iii. 1. § 18; Mela it 4.) The state- ments of Strabo accord well with the views of those who would place Bnca at TermoUj a seaport town on a projecting point of land about 3 miles from the mouth of the Bfemo (Tifemus), and 25 from the opening of the Lc^o diLetina: and this is certainly the most probable position. On the other hand the authority of Pliny has been followed by most local antiquarians, who have placed Buca at a spot now called Punta della Petma^ a prqecting headland with a small port about 5 miles N. of // Vatto (Histonium), where it is said that considerable an- cient remains were still visible in the 17th centniy. Two inscriptions, said to have been discovered on this site, would be almost ccmclusive in favour of this view, but th^ are probably foi^eries. This subject is further discussed in the article Frentanl (Ro- inanelli, vol. iii. p. 40 — 42 ; M(»mnsen, Inscr. Regn. Neapol App, p. 30.) [K. H. B.] BUCINNA. BUGEP-HALA or BUGEPHALI'A (rk howcl. ^oXo, Arrian, Anab. v. 29; Ptol. viL 1. § 46 ; ^ BotfKt^Mai, Arrian, Anab. v. 19 ; Died. xvii. 95; Stef^. B. «. 9. Bobs Kf^NiXoi ; ^ BouKC^oAca, Stnb. XV. p. 698; Plut. de Fart, Alex, i. 5 ; Snid. s, v.; ^ BouK€<pd€M, Hesych. », v.; Steph. B.; ^ Bovicc- ^oAof, PeripL p. 27), a city of India, on the Hy- daspes (Jdum), built by Alexander, after his great victory over Poms (b. c. 326), at tiie place where he had crossed the river before the battle, and in memory of his celebrated charger Bucephalus, who had expred in the hour of victory, from &tigue and old age, or from wounds. (Arrian. &c., U. oc, ; Gurt. ix. 3. § 23.) The exact site la not ascertained ; but the probabilities seem to be in favour of Jeium, at which place is the ordinary modem passage of the river, or of JeUapoor^ about 16 miles lower down. (Gourt, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal^ 1836, pp. 468, foil.; Elphinstone, CoW, p. 80; and an important note in Thurlwall, Hi$L of Greece, vol. vii. p. 16.) It was one of Ptolemy's points of recorded astronomical observations, having about 14^ hours for its longest day, and being distant a littie more than 4^ hours £. of Alexandria. [P. S.] BUGETHALA (JRovKi^aKa &Kpa), a promontory of Argolis, lying a little S. of Scyllaeum, in Tree- zenia, having £ree islands adjacent to it (Paus. ii. 34. § 8.) BUGE'PHALUS (Bovic^^^aXos), a pramontorr of Gorinthia, with a port of the same name, situated S. of Cenchreae, which must be distinguished from Bucephala in Argolis. (Mel. ii. 3 ; Ptol. iii. 16. § 12; Plin. iv. 5. s. 9.) Stephanus B. speaks of BovKt^das ifdf9 in Attica. BUGES or BUGES LAGUS (Plin. iv. 12. s. 26), BYGE or BYGES (ji BiJioj Mftyti, Ptol. iv. 5. §§ 9, 10), BIGES (Val. Flacc. Arff. vi. 68), an almost encloeed gulf at the end of the Palus Afoeotis {Sea ofAzov)y from which it is separated, says Pliny, by a ridge of rock (petroto dortOj now called the Koea Arabattkaia: it is, however, rather sandy than rocky). Ptolemy mentions it as the E. boundary of the isthmus of the Tanric Ghersonesus (^Crimea). Strabo (vii. p. 308) gives a tnon particular descrip^ tion of it rnider the name of if 2cnr^ Affu^, the Putrid Lake, by which it is still called; in Russian, SibacM (or Si9ach6)Mor6, He describes it as 4000 stadia in length, uid as the W. put of the Palus Maeotis, with which it is united by a large mouth (the strait is in fact only a furiong wide); it is very marshy, and scarcely navigable by boats made of hides sewn together, as the shallows are readily un- corered and covered again by the winds. (Strab. i c) It is in fact a great lagoon, covered with water when an £. wind blows the water of the Sea of Azov in at its narrow opening, but at other times a tract of pesti- lential mud. Mela (ii. 1 ), Pliny, and Ptolemy men- tion a river of the same name, the exact position of which is doubtful. (Ukert, yoL iiL pt 2, pp^ 170, 201,356,422,462.) [P. S] BUGHAETIUM (Bovxo'riov, Stivb. vii. p. 324; Bovx*''^} Polyb. xxii. 9 ; Bo^x'^'^} ^™* ^ ^^ kmn, S 32 ; Harpocrat. », v.), a dty of the Gas- sopaei in Thesprotia, a little above the sea. (Stmb. L c.) It is placed by Leake at the harbour of St. John, a few miles E. of Parga. (Leake, Northern Greece^ vol. iv. p. 73.) BUGINNA, is mentioned by Pliny (iu. 8. s. 14) among tho small islands on the W. coast of Sicily As he enumerates it next to Aegusa, it is supposed to be the same called by Ptolemy Phorbantia, now