Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Buccula

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

BUC'CULA (παραγναθίς). The cheek-piece of a helmet, which was furnished with one on each of its sides, attached by hinges, so as to be lifted up and down at pleasure. In active exercise the bucculae were fastened under the chin; when the wearer was "at ease," they were frequently tied up over the top of the skull cap. (See the illustrations s. GALEA. Liv. xliv. 34. Juv. x. 134.) The engraving (Buccula/1.1) shows one side of an original bronze helmet found in a tomb at Paestum, with the cheek piece depending from it.

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  Buccula/1.1