Jule Cesar, quand il vit que Brutus aussi estoit de ceux qui luy tirient des coups d'espee, luy dit, _Kai sy tecnon_? c'est à dire.... Et toy mon fils, en es tu aussi.--_Deux Dial. du Noveau Lang. Franc_ (1583). BRUTUS AND CICERO. Cicero says: [Latin: "Cæsare 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 Cæsar'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 £3500. 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).