sacred to Jupiter. He followed the fortune of Æneas, and, with
his brother, was killed by the Rutuli in Italy. _Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 9, li. 672, &c.――――One of Dido’s lovers, present when Æneas and
the Trojans were introduced to the queen. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1,
li. 742.
=Biton.= _See:_ Cleobis.
=Bituītus=, a king of the Allobroges, conquered by a small number of
Romans, &c.――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 9, ch. 6.――_Florus_, bk. 3,
ch. 2.
=Bituntum=, a town of Spain. _Martial_, bk. 4, ltr. 55.
=Bitŭrĭges=, a people of Gaul, divided from the Ædui by the Ligeris.
_Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 7, ch. 21.
=Biturĭcum=, a town of Gaul, formerly the capital of the Belgæ.
_Strabo_, bk. 4.
=Bizia=, a citadel near Rhodope belonging to the kings of Thrace.
Tereus was born there.
=Blæna=, a fruitful country of Pontus, where the general of Mithridates
Eupator destroyed the forces of Nicomedes the Bithynian. _Strabo_,
bk. 12.
=Blæsii=, two Romans who killed themselves because Tiberius deprived
them of the priesthood. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 6, ch. 40.
=Junius Blæsus=, a governor of Gaul. _Tacitus._
=Blandenona=, a place near Placentia. _Cicero_, bk. 2, ltr. 15,
_Letters to his brother Quintus_.
=Blandŭsia=, a fountain on the borders of the country of the Sabines
near Mandela, Horace’s country seat. _Horace_, bk. 3, ode 13.
=Blastophœnīces=, a people of Lusitania. _Appian._
=Blemmyes=, a people of Africa, who, as is fabulously reported, had
no heads, but had the eyes and mouth placed in the breast. _Mela_,
bk. 1, ch. 4.
=Blenīna=, a town of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 27.
=Blitius Catulinus=, was banished into the Ægean sea, after Piso’s
conspiracy, &c. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 15, ch. 71.
=Blucium=, a castle where king Dejotarus kept his treasures in
Bithynia. _Strabo_, bk. 12.
=Boadicea.= _See:_ Boudicea.
=Boæ= and =Boea=, a town of Laconia. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 21.
=Boagrius=, a river of Locris. _Strabo_, bk. 9.
=Bocalias=, a river in the island of Salamis.
=Boccar=, a king of Mauritania. _Juvenal_, satire 4, li. 90, applies
the word in a general sense to any native of Africa.
=Bocchŏris=, a wise king and legislator of Egypt. _Diodorus_, bk. 1.
=Bocchus=, a king of Gætulia, in alliance with Rome, who perfidiously
delivered Jugurtha to Sylla the lieutenant of Marius. _Sallust_,
_Jugurthine War_.――_Paterculus_, bk. 2, ch. 12.
=Boduagnātus=, a leader of the Nervii, when Cæsar made war against
them. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 2, ch. 23.
=Bodūni=, a people of Britain who surrendered to Claudius. _Dio
Cassius_, bk. 60.
=Boea.= _See:_ Boæ.
=Bœbe=, a town of Thessaly. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 7, fable 5.
――――A lake of Crete. _Strabo_, bk. 9.
=Bœbēis=, a lake of Thessaly, near mount Ossa. _Lucan_, bk. 7, li. 176.
=Bœbia lex=, was enacted to elect four pretors every year.――――Another
to insure proprietors in the possession of their lands.――――Another,
A.U.C. 571, against using bribes at elections.
=Boedromia=, an Athenian festival instituted in commemoration of
the assistance which the people of Athens received in the reign
of Erechtheus, from Ion son of Xuthus, when their country was
invaded by Eumolpus son of Neptune. The word is derived ἁπο του
βοηδρομειν, _coming to help_. Plutarch in _Theseus_ mentions it
as in commemoration of the victory which Theseus obtained over the
Amazons, in a month called at Athens Boedromion.
=Bœotarchæ=, the chief magistrates in Bœotia. _Livy_, bk. 42, ch. 43.
=Bœotia=, a country of Greece, bounded on the north by Phocis, south
by Attica, east by Eubœa, and west by the bay of Corinth. It has
been successively called Aonia, Mesapia, Hyantis, Ogygia, and
Cadmeis, and now forms a part of Livadia. It was called Bœotia,
from Bœotus son of Itonus; or, according to others, _a bove_, from a
cow, by which Cadmus was led into the country where he built Thebes.
The inhabitants were reckoned rude and illiterate, fonder of bodily
strength than of mental excellence; yet their country produced many
illustrious men, such as Pindar, Hesiod, Plutarch, &c. The mountains
of Bœotia, particularly Helicon, were frequented by the Muses,
to whom also many of their fountains and rivers were consecrated.
_Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 49; bk. 5, ch. 57.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 3, li. 10.――_Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 1, &c.――_Cornelius Nepos_,
bk. 7, ch. 11.――_Strabo_, bk. 9.――_Justin_, bk. 3, ch. 6; bk. 8, ch.
4.――_Horace_, bk. 2, ltr. 1, li. 244.――_Diodorus_, bk. 19.――_Livy_,
bk. 27, ch. 30, &c.
=Bœotus=, a son of Itonus by Menalippa. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 1.
=Bœorobistas=, a man who made himself absolute among the Getæ, by the
strictness of his discipline. _Strabo_, bk. 7.
=Boethius=, a celebrated Roman, banished and afterwards punished with
death, on a suspicion of a conspiracy, by Theodoric king of the
Ostrogoths, A.D. 525. It was during his imprisonment that he wrote
his celebrated poetical treatise _De consolatione philosophiæ_, in
five books. The best edition of his works is that of Hagenau, 4to,
1491, or that of Leiden, 1671, with the _notis variorum_.
=Boetus=, a foolish poet of Tarsus, who wrote a poem on the battle
of Philippi. _Strabo_, bk. 14.――――A river of Spain, more properly
called Bætis. _See:_ Bætis.
=Boeus=, one of the Heraclidæ.
=Boges= and =Boes=, a Persian who destroyed himself and family when
besieged by the Athenians. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 107.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 8, ch. 8.
=Bogud=, a king of Mauritania in the interest of Cæsar. _Cæsar_,
_Alexandrine War_, ch. 59.
=Bogus=, a king of the Maurusii, present at the battle of Actium.
_Strabo_, bk. 8.
=Boii=, a people of Celtic Gaul, who migrated into Cisalpine Gaul, and
the north of Italy on the banks of the Po. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_,
bk. 1, ch. 28; bk. 7, ch. 17.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 4, li. 158.
=Bojocalus=, a general of the Germans in the age of Tiberius, &c.
_Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 13, ch. 55.
=Bola=, a town of the Æqui in Italy. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 775.
=Bolānus.= _See:_ Bollanus.
=Bolbe=, a marsh near Mygdonia. _Thucydides_, bk. 1, ch. 58.
=Bolbitīnum=, one of the mouths of the Nile, with a town of the same
name. Naucrautis was built near it. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 17.
=Bolgius=, a general of Gaul, in an expedition against Ptolemy king of
Macedonia. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 19.
=Bolīna=, a virgin of Achaia, who rejected the addresses of Apollo,
and threw herself into the sea to avoid his importunities. The god
made her immortal. There is a city which bears her name in Achaia.
_Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 23.
=Bolinæus=, a river near Bolina. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 23.
=Bolissus=, a town and island near Chios. _Thucydides_, bk. 8, ch. 24.
=Bollānus=, a man whom Horace represents, bk. 1, satire 9, li. 11, as
of the most irascible temper and the most inimical to loquacity.
=Bolus=, a king of the Cimbri, who killed a Roman ambassador. _Livy_,
bk. 67.
=Bomienses=, a people near Ætolia. _Thucydides_, bk. 3, ch. 96.
=Bomilcar=, a Carthaginian general, son of Amilcar. He was suspected
of a conspiracy with Agathocles, and hung in the forum, where he
had received all his dignity. _Diodorus_, bk. 26.――_Justin_, bk. 22,
ch. 7.――――An African, for some time the instrument of all Jugurtha’s
cruelties. He conspired against Jugurtha, who put him to death.
_Sallust_, _Jugurthine War_.
=Bomonīcæ=, youths that were whipped at the altar of Diana Orthia
during the festivals of the goddess. He who bore the lash of the
whip with the greatest patience, and without uttering a groan, was
declared victorious, and received an honourable prize. _Pausanias_,
bk. 3, ch. 16.――_Plutarch_, _Lycurgus_.
=Bona Dea=, a name given to Ops, Vesta, Cybele, and Rhea, by the
Greeks; and by the Latins, to Fauna, or Fatua. This goddess was
so chaste that no man but her husband saw her after her marriage;
from which reason, her festivals were celebrated only in the night
by the Roman matrons in the houses of the highest officers of the
state, and all the statues of the men were carefully covered with a
veil where the ceremonies were observed. In the latter ages of the
republic, however, the sanctity of these mysteries was profaned
by the introduction of lasciviousness and debauchery. _Juvenal_,
satire 6, li. 313.――_Propertius_, bk. 4, poem 10, li. 25.――_Ovid_,
_de Ars Amatoria_, bk. 3, li. 637.
=Bonōnia=, called also Felsina, a town on the borders of the Rhine,
or Rheno, which falls into the Po. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 8, ch. 1.
――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 599.
=Bonosius=, an officer of Probus, who assumed the imperial purple in
Gaul.
=Bonus Eventus=, a Roman deity, whose worship was first introduced by
the peasants. He was represented holding a cup in his right hand,
and in his left, ears of corn. _Varro_, _de Re Rustica_, bk. 1.
――_Pliny_, bk. 34, ch. 8.
=Boosūra= (_bovis cauda_), a town of Cyprus, where Venus had an
ancient temple. _Strabo._
=Boōtes=, a northern constellation near the Ursa Major, also called
Bubulcus and Arctophylax. Some suppose it to be Icarus the father
of Erigone, who was killed by shepherds for inebriating them. Others
maintain that it is Arcas, whom Jupiter placed in heaven. _Ovid_,
_Fasti_, bk. 3, li. 405.――_Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 2,
ch. 42.
=Bootus= and =Bœotus=, a son of Neptune and Menalippe, exposed by his
mother, but preserved by shepherds. _Hyginus_, fable 186.
=Borea=, a town taken by Sextus Pompey. _Cicero_, bk. 16, _Letters to
Atticus_, ltr. 4.
=Boreădes=, the descendants of Boreas, who long possessed the
supreme power and the priesthood in the island of the Hyperboreans.
_Diodorus_, bks. 1 & 2.
=Boreas=, the name of the north wind blowing from the Hyperborean
mountains. According to the poets, he was son of Astræus and Aurora,
but others make him son of the Strymon. He was passionately fond
of Hyacinthus [_See:_ Hyacinthus], and carried away Orithyia, who
refused to receive his addresses, and by her he had Zetes and Calais,
Cleopatra and Chione. He was worshipped as a deity, and represented
with wings and white hair. The Athenians dedicated altars to him,
and to the winds, when Xerxes invaded Europe. Boreas changed himself
into a horse, to unite himself with the mares of Dardanus, by which
he had 12 mares so swift, that they ran or rather flew over the sea,
without scarce wetting their feet. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 20, li. 222.
――_Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 379.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 15.
――_Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 189.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 6,
li. 700.
=Boreasmi=, A festival at Athens in honour of Boreas, who, as the
Athenians supposed, was related to them on account of his marriage
with Orithyia the daughter of one of their kings. They attributed
the overthrow of the enemy’s fleet to the respect which he paid to
his wife’s native country. There were also sacrifices at Megalopolis
in Arcadia, in honour of Boreas. _Pausanias_, _Attica_ & _Arcadia_.
=Boreus=, a Persian, &c. _Polyænus_, bk. 7, ch. 40.
=Borges=, a Persian who burnt himself rather than submit to the enemy,
&c. _Polyænus_, bk. 7, ch. 24.
=Bornos=, a place of Thrace. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Alcibiades_, ch. 7.
=Borsippa=, a town of Babylonia, sacred to Apollo and Diana. The
inhabitants ate bats. _Strabo_, bk. 16.
=Borus=, a son of Perieres, who married Polydora the daughter of
Peleus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 13.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 16,
li. 177.
=Borysthĕnes=, a large river of Scythia, falling into the Euxine sea,
now called the _Dnieper_, and inferior to no other European river
but the Danube, according to _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 45, &c.――――There
was a city of the same name on the borders of the river, built by a
colony of Milesians, 655 years before the christian era. It was also
called _Olba Salvia_. _Mela_, bk. 2, chs. 1 & 7.――――A horse with
which the emperor Adrian used to hunt. At his death he was honoured
with a monument. _Diodorus._
=Bosphŏrus= and =Bospŏrus=, two narrow straits, situate at the confines
of Europe and Asia. One was called Cimmerian, and joined the Palus
Mœotis to the Euxine, now known by the name of the straits of Caffa;
and the other, which was called the Thracian Bosphorus, and by the
moderns the straits of Constantinople, made a communication between
the Euxine sea and the Propontis. It is 16 miles long, and one and a
half broad, and where narrowest 500 paces or four stadia, according
to Herodotus. The word is derived from Βοος πορος, _bovis meatus_,
because, on account of its narrowness, an ox could easily cross it.
Cocks were heard to crow, and dogs to bark, from the opposite banks,
and in a calm day persons could talk one to the other. _Pliny_, bk.
4, ch. 12; bk. 6, ch. 1.――_Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 3, poem 4, li. 49.
――_Mela_, bk. 1, ch. 1.――_Strabo_, bk. 12.――_Herodotus_, bk. 4,
ch. 85.
=Boter=, a freedman of Claudius. _Suetonius_, _Claudius_.
=Bottia=, a colony of Macedonians in Thrace. The people were called
_Bottiæi_. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 1.――_Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 185, &c.
――_Thucydides_, bk. 2, ch. 99.
=Bottiæis=, a country at the north of Macedonia, on the bay of Therma.
_Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 123, &c.
=Boudicea=, a queen in Britain, who rebelled upon being insulted by
the Romans. She poisoned herself when conquered, A.D. 61. _Tacitus_,
_Annals_, bk. 14, ch. 31.
=Bouiānum=, an ancient colony of the Samnites, at the foot of the
Apennines not far from Beneventum. _Livy_, bk. 9, ch. 28.
=Bovillæ=, a town of Latium near Rome. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 3,
li. 607.――――Another in Campania.
=Brachmanes=, Indian philosophers, who derive their name from Brahma,
one of the three beings whom God, according to their theology,
created, and with whose assistance he formed the world. They devoted
themselves totally to the worship of the gods, and were accustomed
from their youth to endure labours, and to live with frugality and
abstinence. They never ate flesh, and abstained from the use of
wine, and all carnal enjoyments. After they had spent 37 years
in the greatest trials, they were permitted to marry and indulge
themselves in a more free and unbounded manner. According to modern
authors, Brahma is the parent of all mankind, and he produced as
many worlds as there are parts in the body, which they reckoned 14.
They believed that there were seven seas, of water, milk, curds,
butter, salt, sugar, and wine, each blessed with its particular
paradise. _Strabo_, bk. 15.――_Diodorus_, bk. 17.
=Bræsia=, a daughter of Cinyras and Metharme. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3,
ch. 14.
=Branciădes=, a surname of Apollo.
=Branchĭdæ=, a people of Asia, near the river Oxus, put to the sword
by Alexander. They were originally of Miletus, near the temple of
Branchus, but had been removed from thence by Xerxes. _Strabo_, bk.
11.――_Curtius_, bk. 7, ch. 5.――――The priests of Apollo Didymæus, who
gave oracles in Caria. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 29.
=Branchyllĭdes=, a chief of the Bœotians. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 13.
=Branchus=, a youth of Miletus, son of Smicrus, beloved by Apollo,
who gave him the power of prophecy. He gave oracles at Didyme,
which became inferior to none of the Grecian oracles except Delphi,
and which exchanged the name of Didymean for that of Branchidæ.
The temple, according to Strabo, was set on fire by Xerxes, who
took possession of the riches it contained, and transported the
people into Sogdiana, where they built a city, which was afterwards
destroyed by Alexander. _Strabo_, bk. 15.――_Statius_, _Thebiad_,
bk. 3, li. 479.――_Lucian_, _de Domo_.
=Braslæ=, a town of Laconia. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 24.
=Brasĭdas=, a famous general of Lacedæmon, son of Tellus, who, after
many great victories over Athens and other Grecian states, died of
a wound at Amphipolis, which Cleon the Athenian had besieged, B.C.
422. A superb monument was raised to his memory. _Pausanias_, bk. 3,
ch. 24.――_Thucydides_, bks. 4 & 5.――_Diodorus_, bk. 3.――――A man of
Cos. _Theocritus_, _Idylls_, poem 7.
=Brasidēia=, festivals at Lacedæmon, in honour of Brasidas. None but
freemen born Spartans were permitted to enter the lists, and such as
were absent were fined.
=Brasĭlas=, a man of Cos. _Theocritus_, poem 7.
=Braure=, a woman who assisted in the murder of Pittacus king of the
Edoni. _Thucydides_, bk. 4, ch. 107.
=Brauron=, a town of Attica, where Diana had a temple. The goddess had
three festivals called _Brauronia_, celebrated once every fifth year
by 10 men, who were called ἱεροποιοι. They sacrificed a goat to the
goddess, and it was usual to sing one of the books of Homer’s Iliad.
The most remarkable that attended were young virgins in yellow gowns,
consecrated to Diana. They were about 10 years of age, and not under
five, and therefore their consecration was called δεκατευειν, from
δεκα, _decem_; and sometimes ἀρκτευειν, as the virgins themselves
bore the name of ἀρκτοι, _bears_, from this circumstance. There was
a bear in one of the villages of Attica so tame, that he ate with
the inhabitants, and played harmlessly with them. This familiarity
lasted long, till a young virgin treated the animal too roughly,
and was killed by it. The virgin’s brother killed the bear, and
the country was soon after visited by a pestilence. The oracle was
consulted, and the plague removed by consecrating virgins to the
service of Diana. This was so faithfully observed, that no woman
in Athens was ever married before a previous consecration to the
goddess. The statue of Diana of Tauris, which had been brought into
Greece by Iphigenia, was preserved in the town of Brauron. Xerxes
carried it away when he invaded Greece. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 46.
――_Strabo_, bk. 9.
=Brenni= and =Breuni=, a people of Noricum. _Horace_, bk. 4, ode 14.
=Brennus=, a general of the Galli Senones, who invaded Italy, defeated
the Romans at the river Allia, and entered their city without
opposition. The Romans fled into the capitol, and left the whole
city in the possession of the enemies. The Gauls climbed the
Tarpeian rock in the night, and the capitol would have been taken
had not the Romans been awakened by the noise of geese which were
before the doors, and immediately repelled the enemy. Camillus, who
was in banishment, marched to the relief of his country, and so
totally defeated the Gauls, that not one remained to carry the news
of their destruction. _Livy_, bk. 5, ch. 36, &c.――_Plutarch_,
_Camillus_.――――Another Gaul, who made an irruption into Greece with
150,000 men and 15,000 horse, and endeavoured to plunder the temple
of Apollo at Delphi. He was destroyed, with all his troops, by the
god, or more properly, he killed himself in a fit of intoxication,
B.C. 278, after being defeated by the Delphians. _Pausanias_, bk. 10,
chs. 22 & 23.――_Justin_, bk. 24, ch. 6, &c.
=Brenthe=, a ruined city of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 28.
=Brescia=, a city of Italy, which had gods peculiar to itself.
=Brettii=, a people of Italy. _Strabo_, bk. 6.
=Briăreus=, a famous giant, son of Cœlus and Terra, who had 100 hands
and 50 heads, and was called by men Ægeon, and only by the gods
Briareus. When Juno, Neptune, and Minerva conspired to dethrone
Jupiter, Briareus ascended the heavens, and seated himself next to
him, and so terrified the conspirators by his fierce and threatening
looks that they desisted. He assisted the giants in their war
against the gods, and was thrown under mount Ætna, according to
some accounts. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 148.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1,
ch. 1.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 1, li. 403.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6,
li. 287; bk. 10, li. 565.――――A Cyclops, made judge between Apollo
and Neptune, in their dispute about the isthmus and promontory of
Corinth. He gave the former to Neptune, and the latter to Apollo.
_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Brias=, a town of Pisidia.
=Brigrantes=, a people in the northern parts of Britain. _Juvenal_,
satire 14, li. 196.――_Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 43.
=Brigrantīnus=, a lake of Rhœtia between the Alps, now the lake of
Constance. The town on its eastern banks is now Bregentz in the
Tyrol, anciently called Brigantium. _Pliny_, bk. 9, ch. 17.
=Brilessus=, a mountain of Attica. _Thucydides_, bk. 2, ch. 23.
=Brīmo= (_terror_), a name given to Proserpine and Hecate. _Propertius_,
bk. 2, poem 2, li. 11.
=Brisēis=, a woman of Lyrnessus, called also Hippodamia. When her
country was taken by the Greeks, and her husband Mines and brother
killed in the fight, she fell to the share of Achilles in the
division of the spoils. Agamemnon took her away some time after
from Achilles, who made a vow to absent himself from the field of
battle. Briseis was very faithful to Achilles; and when Agamemnon
restored her to him, he swore he had never offended her chastity.
_Homer_, _Iliad_, bks. 1, 2, &c.――_Ovid_, _Heroides_, poem 3; _De
Ars Amatoria_, bks. 2 & 3.――_Propertius_, bk. 2, poems 8, 20, & 22.
――_Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 24.――_Horace_, bk. 2, ode 4.
=Brises=, a man of Lyrnessus, brother to the priest Chryses. His
daughter Hippodamia was called _Briseis_, from him.
=Briseus=, a surname of Bacchus, from his nurse Briso, or his temple
at Brisa, a promontory at Lesbos. _Persius_, bk. 1, li. 76.
=Britanni=, the inhabitants of Britain. _See:_ Britannia.――――A man in
Gallia Belgica. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 17.
=Britannia=, an island in the northern ocean, the greatest in Europe,
conquered by Julius Cæsar during his Gallic wars, B.C. 55, and first
known to be an island by Agricola, who sailed round it. It was a
Roman province from the time of its conquest till the 448th year
of the christian era. The inhabitants, in the age of Cæsar, used
to paint their bodies, to render themselves more terrible in the
eyes of their enemies. The name of Britain was unknown to the Romans
before Cæsar conquered it. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 4.――_Diodorus_,
bk. 5.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 33.――_Tacitus_, _Agricola_, ch. 10.
――_Pliny_, bk. 34, ch. 17.
=Britannĭcus=, a son of Claudius Cæsar by Messalina. Nero was raised
to the throne in preference to him, by means of Agrippina, and
caused him to be poisoned. His corpse was buried in the night;
but it is said that a shower of rain washed away the white paint
which the murderer had put over his face, so that it appeared quite
black, and discovered the effects of poison. _Tacitus_, _Annals_.
――_Suetonius_, _Nero_, ch. 33.
=Britomartis=, a beautiful nymph of Crete, daughter of Jupiter and
Charme, who devoted herself to hunting, and became a great favourite
of Diana. She was loved by Minos, who pursued her so closely,
that, to avoid his importunities, she threw herself into the sea.
_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 30; bk. 3, ch. 14.――――A surname of Diana.
=Britomarus=, a chief of the Galli Insubres conquered by Æmilius.
_Florus_, bk. 2, ch. 4.
=Britŏnes=, the inhabitants of Britain. _Juvenal_, satire 15, li. 124.
=Brixellum=, a town in Italy near Mantua, where Otho slew himself when
defeated. _Tacitus_, _Histories_, bk. 2, ch. 32.
=Brixia=, a town of Italy beyond the Po, at the north of Cremona, now
Brescia. _Justin_, bk. 20, ch. 5.
=Brizo=, the goddess of dreams worshipped in Delos.
=Brocubēlus=, a governor of Syria, who fled to Alexander, when Darius
was murdered by Bessus. _Curtius_, bk. 5, ch. 13.
=Bromius=, a surname of Bacchus, from βρεμειν, _frendere_, alluding
to the groans which Semele uttered when consumed by Jupiter’s
fire. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 4, li. 11.――――A son of Ægyptus.
_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Bromus=, one of the Centaurs. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12,
li. 459.
=Brongus=, a river falling into the Ister. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 49.
=Brontēs= (_thunder_), one of the Cyclops. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8,
li. 425.
=Brontīnus=, a Pythagorean philosopher.――――The father of Theano the
wife of Pythagoras. _Diogenes Laërtius._
=Broteas= and =Ammon=, two men famous for their skill in the cestus.
_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, li. 107.――――One of the Lapithæ.
=Brotheus=, a son of Vulcan and Minerva, who burned himself to avoid
the ridicule to which his deformity subjected him. _Ovid_, _Ibis_,
li. 517.
=Bructēri=, a people of Germany, inhabiting the country at the east of
Holland. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 1, ch. 51.
=Brumālia=, festivals celebrated at Rome in honour of Bacchus, about
the month of December. They were first instituted by Romulus.