The position of the vocal organs in pronouncing this letter is thus described: Mar. Vict. p. 32 K b et p dispart inter se oris officio exprimuntur. Nam prima (b) exploso e mediis labris sono, sequens compresso ore velut introrsum attracto oris ictu explicatur; Mart. Cap. 3. 261 b labris per spiritus impetum reclusis edicimus. In Terentianus Maurus this distinction between b and p is wrongly reversed. As an abbreviation B may stand for bovem, badius, bonus and its Cases, bene, beneficiarius; and sometimes (in consequen of the confusion between b and v in popular pronunciation) for bixit (= vixit) and beteranus (= veteranus).

Babĭger, an adj. explained in many glossaries as = stultus: also given in the forms baliger and brabiger (see Löwe P. G. p. 54). Probably a corruption for barbiger, bearded, and so senile or old fashioned. (Perhaps the glosses ‘barbo’; barunculus, ‘barbo’ βάκηλος, quoted by Löwe P. G. p. 65, may be explained in the same way.)

Babullĭa, nom. f.: C. I. L. 9. 486 (Venusia).

Baburĭus, nom. m.: C. I. L. 9. 4778 (Forum Novum).

Baburrus, foolish: Placidus p. 13 D ‘baburra’ stulta, inepta; so Isid. Or. 10. 31; Gloss. Philox. baburra ἂφρων ἀνόητος, μάταιος, Perhaps to be read in Apul. M. 4. 14 for babulus of the MS.