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Bucephalus \Bu*ceph"a*lus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, lit., ox-headed; ? ox + ? head.]
The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great.
Hence, any riding horse. [Jocose]
--Sir W. Scott. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wikipedia
Ancient accounts state that Bucephalus died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, in what is now modern Pakistan, and is buried in Jalalpur Sharif outside of Jhelum, Pakistan. Another account states that Bucephalus is buried in Phalia, a town in Pakistan's Mandi Bahauddin District, which is named after him.
Bucephalus was named after a branding mark depicting an ox's head on his haunch.
Bucephalus (, from , "ox", and , "head") was a type of branding mark anciently used on horses. It was one of the three most common, besides Ϻ, San, and Ϙ, Koppa. Those horses marked with a San were called Σαμφόραι, Samphórai; those with a Koppa, , Koppatíai; and those with an ox's head, Βουκέφαλοι, Bucéphaloi.
This mark was stamped on the horse's buttocks, and his harnesses, as appears from the scholiast on Aristophanes's The Clouds, Hesychius, etc.
Alexander the Great's horse was named Bucephalus after this brand on its haunch.
Bucephalus ("ox head") is the genus name for many trematode flatworms that are parasites of molluscs and fish. Like other Bucephalidae, they are found in fish both as adults and as metacercariae. In marine and freshwater teleosts, they live as parasites inside the digestive tract, especially the intestine.
The genus Bucephalus was based on the earliest known bucephalid, B. polymorphus Baer (1827), initially described from a cercaria larva. Siebold (1848) believed that the adult bucephalid he named Gasterostomum fimbriatum represented an adult form of the same bucephalid, but this identity has never been proved.
The name Bucephalus meaning "ox head" was chosen because of the horn-like appearance of the forked tail (furcae) of its cercaria. By what Manter calls a "curious circumstance", horns are also suggested by the long tentacles of adult worms.
They are distinguished from other genera in the same family by having tentacles associated with the anterior sucker. Genus members have their mouth in the middle of the body.
An earlier name for this genus was Gasterostomum, given by von Siebold in 1848 to all adult trematodes with a ventral mouth. Odhner (1905) established two suborders of digenean trematodes called Gasterostomata and Protostomata. The two genera in Gasterostomata were Gasterostomum (now Bucephalus) and Prosorhynchus, of which the former has an anterior sucker separate from its digestive tract and the latter has an anterior rhynchus. Members of the genus Bucephalus are also sometimes referred to as "gasterostomes."
Bucephalus may refer to:
- Bucephalus (c. 355 BC – 326 BC), Alexander the Great's horse
- Bucephalus (brand), a branding mark anciently used on horses
- Bucephalus (racehorse), an 18th-century Thoroughbred racehorse
- Bucephalus (trematode), a trematode flatworm genus
- HMS Bucephalus, an early 19th century English naval vessel see also Invasion of Java (1811).
- The Crystal Bucephalus, an original novel written by Craig Hinton
- BTR-4 "Bucephalus", Ukrainian armored troop carrier
Bucephalus (foaled 1764) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He won the Subscription Purse at York in 1768, but it best known for racing against the undefeated Eclipse in a match race in 1770.
Usage examples of "bucephalus".
Jewels Androclus and the Lion Horatius at the Bridge Julius Caesar The Sword of Damocles Damon and Pythias A Laconic Answer The Ungrateful Guest Alexander and Bucephalus Diogenes the Wise Man The Brave Three Hundred Socrates and his House The King and his Hawk Doctor Goldsmith The Kingdoms The Barmecide Feast The Endless Tale The Blind Men and the Elephant Maximilian and the Goose Boy The Inchcape Rock Whittington and his Cat Casabianca Antonio Canova Picciola Mignon CONCERNING THESE STORIES.
The entire apartment building was now his and all of it was given over to Bucephalus, and to all the offshoots of its enormous memory.
There were only two Macedonian victors: Philotas won the middle-distance race, and Alexander rode Bucephalus to victory against horsemen from Thrace, Athens, Sparta, Thessaly and Corinth.
The prince cantered Bucephalus in a long circuit of the stadium, acknowledging the cheers, finally halting before the royal dais where Philip sat with Cleopatra beside him, flanked by his generals Parmenion, Antipater, Attalus and Cleitus.
He remembered the day, five years before, when Parmenion had first brought Bucephalus to the King.
Alexander obeyed the instruction and was both amazed and delighted when Bucephalus knelt before him.
Paxus, found itself hard pressed to keep up with Bucephalus, who cantered on ahead tirelessly, and the Spartan did not push him.
Even Bucephalus was armoured now, with light chain-mail tied around his neck and over his chest, silver wires braided into his black mane and tail.
A tremendous roar went up from the soldiers which startled Bucephalus, and he reared on his hind legs.
Swinging Bucephalus, Alexander charged at the Guards, the Companion cavalry desperately trying to support him.
Hephaistion and the Companion cavalry came alongside the King, protecting his flanks, but once more Alexander urged Bucephalus forward.
Alexander kicked Bucephalus into a run and rode for the south-east, through the royal park and out on to the road to Elam.
Solemnly, he then named his computer Bucephalus, after the faithful horse of Alexander the Great, the horse who had carried him through all his triumphant battles.
Alexander tested this by having Bucephalus scan the Encyclopedia Britannica and store it all in its memory.
With privacy, he could speak to Bucephalus openly, though he carefully adjusted the computer voice to low intensity.