Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Bustuarius

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. 

BUSTUA'RIUS. A gladiator who engaged in mortal combat round the funeral pyre at the burning of a body; a custom which originated in the notion that the manes were appeased with blood, and the consequent practice of killing prisoners taken in war over the graves of those who were slain in battle. (Serv. ad Virg. Aen. x. 519. Cic. Pis. 9. Compare Hom. Il. xxi. 26. Florus, iii. 20. 9.) The illustration (Bustuarius/1.1) is from an engraved gem; the character of the figure is indicated by the sepulchral pyramid in the back ground.

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  Bustuarius/1.1