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
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.