Buxus, f. g. & Buxum, n. g. Virg.Boxe: the boxe tree: a trumpet or pipe.Crispata buxus cacumine denso. Claud. Densum folijs buxum.Ouid. Horrida buxus. Claud. Horrisona buxus. Valer. Flac. Idæa buxus.Stat.Growing in Ida.Multifori tibia buxi.Ouid.A boxen pipe.Pallidius buxo.Ouid.Simillimus bu pallor. Ouid.Perpetuò virens buxus.Ouid.Buxum torquere flagello.To driue a toppe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
buxum, i, n. [id.], the wood of the boxtree (cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 509; 1, 625). I. In gen.: torno rasile, Verg. G. 2, 449: ora buxo Pallidiora, Ov. M. 4, 134: multifori tibia buxi, id. ib. 12, 158: buxoque simillimus Pallor, id. ib. 11, 417; cf. Plin. 16, 16, 28, 70.—II. Esp. of objects made of boxwood. 1.A flute, pipe: inflati murmur buxi, Ov. M. 14, 537: terebratum per rara foramina, id. F. 6, 697; id. P. 1, 1, 45: cava buxa, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 42: ad inspirata rotari Buxa, Stat. Th. 7, 171; Sen. Agam. 688.—2.A top: volubile, Verg. A. 7, 382: buxum torquere flagello, Pers. 3, 52.—3.A comb: crines depectere buxo, Ov. F. 6, 229: caput intactum buxo, Juv. 14, 194.—4.A writingtablet, Prop. 3 (4), 23, 8; Schol. ad Hor. S. 1, 6, 74.—III.Transf., = buxus, the boxtree, Plin. 16, 43, 84, 231.
buxus, i, f., = pu/cos (cf. Prisc. p. 549, and the letter B). I.Lit., the pale, evergreen box-tree, Enn. ap. Phylarg. l. l.: buxus densa foliis, Ov. A. A. 3, 691: crispata, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 110: horrida, id. ib. 2, 268: perpetuo virens, Ov. M. 10, 97; Plin. 16, 43, 84, 230; for its natural history, v. Plin. 16, 16, 28, 70 sq.—II. For things made of boxwood (cf. Plin. 16, 36, 66, 172), a pipe or flute: tympana vos buxasque vocant Berecyntia. Verg. A. 9, 619 Forbig. ad loc.; Ov. M. 4, 30; Stat. Th. 2, 77; 9, 480; Claud. in Eutr. 2, 286; id. Rapt. Pros. 1, 209; 3, 130.