Bustum, busti. Cic.A place where dead bodies haue bene burned: a sepulcher.Bustum aut tymbon violare.Cic. Caua busta. Ouid.Coaceruatum bustum excelso aggere. Catul. A graue.Ingens bustum terreno ex aggere. Virgil. A tombe.Fumantia busta.Stat.Horrifico cinefactus busto. Lucret. Iniusta busta.Ouid. Busta inania. Stat.Miserabile bustum.Ouid. Bustum memorabile. Claud. Busta sacra. Claud. Suprema busta. Stat.Teres bustum. Catull. Eruere busta. Seneca. Facere bustum. Cic.Incidere in busto.Cic.To graue in a sepulchre.Peragere busta.Ouid.Piare busta alicuius.Ouid. Piacula busto pendere. Lucan. Vertere busta, pro euertere, & deuastare. Lucan. Violare bustum compositum. Lucan. Bustum omnium legum.Cic.The destruction.Bustuatij.Cic.Sworde players that fought at the burning or burying of one.Bustuariæ mœchæ. Martial. quæ in bustis & monumentis prostabant. Common strumpets.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
bustum, i, n. [buro = uro, whence also comburo; cf. burrus, red], orig. the place where the bodies of the dead were burned and buried; later also, in gen., for a tomb: bustum proprie dicitur locus, in quo mortuus est combustus et sepultus... ubi vero combustus quis tantummodo, alibi vero est sepultus, is locus ab urendo ustrina vocatur; sed modo busta sepulchra appellamus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 32 Müll.; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 3, 22; 11, 201; Inscr. Murat. 1514, 3. I.The place of burning and burying; the funeral-pyre after the burning of the body: semiustaque servant Busta neque avelli possunt, Verg. A. 11, 201 Don. ad loc.; Lucr. 3, 906; Stat. S. 5, 1, 226; cf. Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 64.—II.Transf.A. In gen., a mound, tomb (most freq. in the poets): in busto Achilli, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 14: si quis bustum (nam id puto appellari tu/mbon) violarit, Solon ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 64; Cic. Phil. 14, 13, 34; id. Tusc. 5, 35, 101; id. Att. 7, 9, 1; Cat. 64, 363; Verg. A. 11, 850; 12, 863; Hor. C. 3, 3, 40; Prop. 3 (4), 6, 29; 1, 19, 21; 2 (3), 13, 33; Ov. M. 4, 88; 13, 452 al.; Suet. Caes. 84; id. Ner. 33, 38; Luc. 8, 748 —2.Trop., of things that, like a tomb, give up a body to destruction; so of the maw of an animal that eats men: viva videns vivo sepeliri viscera busto,
seeing the living body enclosed in the living grave
, Lucr. 5, 991.—So of Tereus, who devoured his son: flet modo, seque vocat bustum miserabile nati, Ov. M. 6, 665.—Sarcastically, of one who annulled the laws: bustum legum omnium ac religionum, Cic. Pis. 5, 11; and: bustum rei publicae, id. ib. 4, 9.—Of a battle-field: civilia busta Philippi, Prop. 2, 1, 27 Kuin.—B. Ad Busta Gallica, a place in Rome, so called from the Gauls who were burned and buried there, Varr. L. L. 5, 157 Müll.; Liv. 5, 48, 3; 22, 14, 11.—C. Of a destroyed city, the site, ruins, Plin. 5, 17, 15, 73.—D.The burned body itself, the ashes, Stat. Th. 12, 247.