Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Bustum

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

BUS'TUM (τύμβος). A vacant space of ground, on which a funeral pile was raised, and the corpse burnt; but expressly so termed when this area was contained within the sepulchral enclosure, and contiguous to the tomb in which the ashes were afterwards deposited. It is, therefore, to be considered in the light of a private or family burning ground in contradistinction to the Ustrinum, or public one. Festus, s. v. Lucret. iii. 919. Cic. Leg. ii. 26. Suet. Nero, 38.