Balbulous
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- balbulus: (Latin) stammering, stuttering
- bibulous: addicted to strong drink
- fabulous:
- Balbus: a Roman who built a wall → A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ch 1: "And behind the door of one of the closets there was a drawing in red pencil of a bearded man in a Roman dress with a brick in each hand and underneath was the name of the drawing: Balbus was building a wall." → Cicero, Letters to Atticus XII:2 (criticizing his fellow Romans for wasting time when they should be attending to the business of state): "Balbus is building. For what does he care?" ("Balbus was notorious already, envied and hated for his princely pleasure-gardens in Rome, his villa at Tusculum. The dictatorship [i.e. Caesar's] found him building, a sign of opulence and display." - Ronald Syme: "The Roman Revolution", 1939.)
- St Babylas: Bishop of Antioch 237-250; he shut the church-doors against the Roman emperor Decius, for which he was imprisoned and martyred
- alb: a white clerical vestment → one of HCE’s 7 items of clothing?
- Tower of Babel
- bulbous: Resembling a bulb in shape; rounded or swollen
- bibulous: excessively fond of drinking alcohol
