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ptinftual in performing them ; prudent in hia plans, and 

 lii-m and zv.'aloiis in ext-culing them. His memory was tena- 

 cious, his bcn!T(Jincc txtt;nlivc, his reverence of the Deity 

 unfeigned, and his attachmui.t to the Chridian religion un- 

 wavering. Gen. Biog. 



BERNUS, in Geography, a mountain of European Tur- 

 key ill Macedonia ; 10 miles S. E. of Saloniki. 



BEllNY, a town of France, 2 leagues fonth of Paris. 



BEROALDO, Philip the Elihr, in Biography, was 

 born at Bologna in 1453, and at the age of 19, became pro- 

 feiTor of the belles k-ttres in his native city. He alfo read 

 Icclnres at Parma, Milan, and Paris, and at the latter place, 

 or, as fome fuppofe, Perugia, he held a public fchool of 

 eloquence. But, recalled by his countrymen, he renewed 

 his fcholadic labours at Bologna with fuch reputation, that 

 he had 6co hearers at a time. To the iludy of polite litera- 

 ture, he added thofe of philofophy, medicine, and jurifpru- 

 dencc ; and he alfo engaged in public employments affigned 

 to him by his country. His difpolition was convivial, and 

 his condutl not exempt from the charge of hcentioufnefs, 

 before his marriage in 1498. By his good humour he cf- 

 caped or conciliated literary conleils, and maintained an un- 

 interrupted intercourfe with the greatell number ot learned 

 perfons of the age in which he lived. He died in 1505. 

 His commentaries and notes extended to all the Latin writers 

 of eminence ; and are more diilinguilTied by their erudition, 

 than their elegant ta'le and found criticifm. With the more 

 obfcure authors of antiquity, he was particularly convcrfant, 

 and he took pleafure in reviving the ufe of words that were 

 barbarous or ohfolete. Befides his commentary on the 

 " Golden Afs of Apuleius," printed in 1 501, and affording 

 a fpecimen of his manner, he pubhihed a great number of 

 his own orations, letters, poems, and other worki, of which 

 a collection was printed at Balil in 1513. Moll of his ob- 

 fcrvations on authors are contained in Grutcr's Thefuurus 

 Criticus. Moreri. Gen. Biog. 



Beroaldo, Philip, the Younger^ nephew of the former, 

 was a native of Bologna, and profelfor of belles lettrcs in 

 the univcrfity of that city, and afterwards at the Sapienza 

 in Rome. In 1516, he was appointed librarian of the Vati- 

 can by Leo X., but about two years after, before he took re- 

 gular poffeffion of the office, with its e.-'.ioluments, he died, at 

 the age of about 40 years. His Latin poems, by which he 

 acquired great reputation, are publilhed with thofe of his 

 \inclc, to which they are prefixed, in th-i tirft volume of the 

 " Delicix Poetarum Italorum." A colletlion of his ele- 

 gies and epigrams, in 3 books, was publiihed at Rome in 

 1530. His Latin verfion of an oration of Ifocrates, and notes 

 on the full five books of the Annals of Tacitus, were pub- 

 lifhed by order of Leo X. Nouv. Dift. Hift. 



BE ROE, in Entomology, the name affigned by Cramer, 

 to the fpecies of Papilio Europa of Fabricius and Gme- 

 lin. 



Beroe, in Natural Htjlory, the name of a fpeciea, Medusa 

 {Pilius) in Aft. Helv. Beroe with an oftagonal body, and 

 very long tentacula, Gronovius. — Beroe is alfo the name 

 under which meJufa infundiLulum (Miill. and Fabr.) is figured 

 and defcribed in Brown's Hill. Jam. — Linna:us, in the 

 tenth edition of his " Syftema Naturx," calls it medufa 

 beroe, and in the twelfth, vohox (Beroe) ovatus, angulis ci- 

 I'tatls novem. 



Beroe, in Mythology, one of the nymphs, who, accord- 

 ing to Virgil, was companion to Cyrene, the mother of 

 Ariftaeus. Beroe was alfo the name of the nutfe of 

 Semele. 



BERCEA, Berrhoba, or Ber>ea, in Ancient Geography, 

 Ccra-veruiy a large and populous city of Macedonia) fouth- 



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well of JEga: or Edeffa, north-weft of Pella, and eail of Cyrr- 

 hns, at the foot of mount Bermius. Under the Greek Chrif. 

 tian empires, it became the fee of a bifliop. This was the 

 city to which Paul and Silas fled from Theffalonica, where 

 they found a fynagogue of Jews and prolclytcs, who are 

 commended fcv their unprejudiced and impartial inveiliga- 

 tiuu of divine ttuth, and where, in confcquence ol this dif. 

 pofition, they gained many converts to ChriiHaiiiiy. At'ts, 

 xvii. The medals of this city are bronze, gold, and lilver. 

 — Alfo, a town of Syria, between Antioch and Hierapolis, 

 which fome have fuppofed to be the modern Aleppo, an- 

 ciently called Chalep. (See Aleppo.) In the colleftion 

 of Dr. Huntei", there was a bronze medal of this city, with 

 a legend and a dolphin twiftcd about a trident. At this 

 city there were ilruck Imperial Greek medals iu honour of 

 Trajan, Antoninus, and Adrian. 



BEROLHEIM, in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 the circle of Franconia, and ])rincipality of Anfpach, feated 

 on the Altmuhl, with 2 churches, 5 miles weft of Weificn- 

 burg. 



BEROI^INENSIS, in Entomology, z. fpecies of Cantha- 

 Ris, of a black colour: bale of the antcnnx, and wing- 

 cafes yellowifli ; tip of the laft black ; legs ferruginous, 

 Heibft. 



Berolinexsis, a fpecies of Curculio that inhabits 

 Europe. It is whitifti, varied beneath ; thorax rugofe, 

 black, fides variegated ; on the wing-cafes, two undulated 

 black bands. Herbft. 



Berolinensis, a fpecies of Cryptocephalus, {Crlo- 

 ceris) found in the vicinity of Berlia. The head and thorax 

 are Icarlet and gloffy ; wing-cafts granulated, black ; eyes of 

 the fame colour ; legs fulvous. Herbft. 



BEROSUS, in Biography, a famous ancient hiftorian, 

 was a native of Babylon, and prieft of the temple of Belu5, 

 and flouriflied about the time of Alexander. Tatian in- 

 forms us, that he dedicated his work to Antiochus Theos, 

 the third king after Alexander. While the Macedonians 

 were maftcrs of Babvlon, he learned of thcui the Greek lan- 

 guage, and pafling from Babylon to Greece, fettled in the 

 iilnnd of Cos, arid there opened a fchool, in which he taught 

 allronomy and aftrology. Irom Cos he removed to Athens, 

 where he acquired fuch reputation by his aftrological pre- 

 dictions, that the Athenians erefted to him a ftatue in their 

 gym:;afium, with a golden tongue. (Vitruvius, lib. ix. c.7.) 

 The ancients cite three books of his hiftory of the Chal- 

 dasans of Babylon, of which Jofephus, Alexander Polyhiftor, 

 and Eufebius, have preferved fome fragments, that are ufe- 

 ful in forming the feries of Babylonian kings. Jofephus 

 fays, that he agreed with Mofes in his accounts of the deluge, 

 the fall of man, and the ark, in which the rtftorer of man- 

 kind was faved ; and adds, that he mentions the defcendants 

 of Noah and their rcfpeftive ages, to Nabulaffer, king of 

 Babylon ; and that, relating the adions of that prince, he 

 fpcaks of the taking and burning of Jerufalem by his fon 

 Nebuchadonofor, on which occafion, fays he, the Jews were 

 carried captives to Babylon, whence enfucd the defola- 

 tion of that city for 70 years, till the time of Cyrus. He 

 is quoted by Pliny, Tatian, Clement of Alexander, Tertul- 

 lian, Vitruvius, and Eufebius ; whence we may infer, that 

 lie was efteemed a writer of authority. In the feries he 

 gives us of the ten kings, whom he fuppofes to have reigned 

 at Babylon before the flood, then- are fome fmall variations 

 in the authors who have tranfcril cd that hiftorian. Thefe 

 ten fucceffions exaftly anfwer to the ten generations from the 

 creation to the flood : the firft king, by name Olorus or 

 Alones, has been fuppofed by fome to be the fame \yith. 

 Adi;m, by others Nimrod, as Xifuthrus, the laft in ti>c feries, 



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