an ancient appellation given to philosophers by way of contempt, denoting a man with a staff and a budget.

We suppose it is of the same people that Pauchasias Radbertus speaks under the corrupt name of *Bacoperita* or *Bachioniter*, whom he described as philosophers who had so great a contempt for all earthly things, that they kept nothing but a dish to drink out of; and that one of this order seeing a peasant scooping up the water in his hand, threw away his cup as a superfluity: which is nothing but the old story of Diogenes the Cynic.

**BACCULE**, in *Fortification*, a kind of portcullis, or gate, made like a pit-fall with a counterpoise, and supported by two great stakes. It is usually made before the corpade-guard, not far from the gate of a place.