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AU-XE'SI-A, (11) a virgin stoned to death at | BA-GO'As, and BA-GO'SAS, an Egyptian eu

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A-ZIRIS, a place in Libya.

nuch, of great influence in the court of Artaxerxes.
BAG-O-DA RES, another friend of Bessus.
BA-GOPH A-NES, a governor of Babylon.
BAG'RA-DA, a river of Africa.

BAIE, a famous city of Campania.
BA'LA, a surname of Alexander, king of

Syria.

BA-LA CRUS, one of Alexander's officers.
BAL-A-NA GRE, a town of Cyrene.
BA-LA'NUS, a prince of Gaul.

BA-LARI, a people of Sardinia.
BAL-BIL'LUS, (C.) a governor of Egypt.
BAL-BINUS, an admirer of Agna, mentioned
by Horace.

BAL BUS, a mountain of Africa.

Az'o-NAX, an instructor of Zoroaster in BAL-E-A'RES, the islands Majorca and

magic.

A-zo RUS, (11) one of the Argonauts.

Minorca.

BA-LETUS, a son of Hippo.

A-zo TUS, a seaport of Phoenicia; now BA'LI-US, one of the horses of Achilles.

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BA-LISTA, a mountain of Liguria.
BAL-LON O-TI, (3) a people of Sarmatia.
BAL-VEN'TI-US, (10) a centurion in Cæsar's
army.

BAL'Y-RAS, a river of Peloponnesus.
BAM-U-RUE, a people of Libya.
BANTI-E, (4) a town of Apulia.
BAN'TI-US, L. (10) a youth of Nola, who

behaved with great valour at the battle of Cannæ. BAPH'Y-RUS, (6) a river of Macedonia, BAP'TE, the priests of Cotytto.

BA-REI, a people of Colchis.

BAR A-THRUM, a deep pit at Athens, into which criminals were thrown.

BAR BA-RI, (BAR-BA RI-ANS, Eng.) a name applied by the Greeks and Romans to every nation, except their own.

BAR-BAR'I-A, a river of Macedonia.

BAR-BOS THE-NES, a mountain of Pelopon

nesus.

BAR-BYTH A-CE, a city of Persia.
BAR CA, a friend of Cato the elder.
BAR-CE'I, or BAR-CITE, a nation of Africa.
BAR CE, the nurse of Sichæus.

BAR CHA, the name of a noble Carthaginian

family.

BAR-DEI, a people of Illyricum.

BAR DI, a sacerdotal order of the Gauls.
BAR-DINE, a river of Spain; called also
Chrysorrhoas.

BAR-DYLLIS, an Illyrian prince.

BA-RE'A, a seaport of Spain.

BA'RE-AS SO-RA'NUS, a youth killed by his tutor Ignatius.

BA'RES, a naval officer of Persia.
BAR-GU'SI-1, (3) a people of Spain.
BA-RI'NE, a perjured prostitute.
BA-RIS'SES, one of the seven conspirators
against Smerdis.

BA'RI-UM, a town of Apulia.

BAR NU-US, a town of Macedonia.
BAR-SI'NE, and BAR-SE'NE, a daughter of

Darius.

BAR-ZA-EN TES, a satrap who revolted from

Alexander.

BAR-ZA NES, a king of Armenia.

BAS-I-LE'A, an island in the Northern ocean,

famous for its amber.

BAS-I-LIDE, European Sarmatians.

BAS-I-LIDES, the father of Herodotus.
BA-SIL-I-O-POT A-MOS, a name of the river
Eurotas.

BAS'I-LIS, a city of Arcadia.

BA-SIL'I-US, (31) a celebrated African bishop.
BASI-LUS, an insignificant lawyer.
BAS'SE, a place in Arcadia sacred to Apollo.
BAS-SA NI-A, a town of Macedonia.
BAS'SA-REUS, a surname of Bacchus.
BAS-SAR'I-DES, the votaries of Bacchus.
BAS SA-RIS, the robe worn by the priests of

Bacchus.

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BASTI-A, the wife of Metellus.
BATA, a seaport of Asia.

BA-TA VI, the people of Batavia.
BA-TA VI-A, now Holland.
BATHOS, a town of Arcadia.

BATH Y-CLES, an artist of Magnesia.
BA-THYLLUS, a beautiful youth of Samos.
BAT-I-A TUS, a Campanian, who kept a house
full of gladiators, who rebelled against him.
BA-TI'A, a naiad.

BAN‍TI-A, a town of Apulia.

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BEL-LE RUS, another son of Glaucus, slain by his brother Bellerophon; whence the latter, before called Hipponous, derived his name.

All our lexicographers unite in giving this word the antepenultimate accent; but Milton seems to have sanctioned the penultimate, as much more agreeable to English ears, in his Lycidas

Or whether thou to our moist vows deny'd
Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old.

Though it must be acknowledged that Milton has in this word deserted the classical pronunciation, yet his authority is sufficient to make us acquiesce in this accentuation in the above-mentioned passage. [True; but not elsewhere.-Edit.]

BEL-LI-ENUS, a Roman, whose house was

burnt at Cæsar's funeral,

BEL-LO'NA, the goddess of war.
BEL-LO-NA RI-I, (4) the priests of Bellona.
BEL-LOV'A-CI, a people of Gaul.
BEL-LO-VE'SUS, a king of the Celtæ.
BE'LON, one of Alexander's generals.

BA-TINA, and BAN-TI NA, the inhabitants of BELUS, one of the first kings of Babylon.

Bantia.

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Homer.

BATON, a charioteer of Amphiaraus.
BAT-RA-CHO-MY-O-MACH'I-A, the battle of the
frogs and mice; a mock-heroic poem, attributed to
BAT-TIA-DES, a patronymic of Callimachus.
BATTIS, a girl, celebrated by Philetus.
BATTUS, the father of Callimachus. Also,
a Lacedemonian, so called from the difficulty with
which he spoke.

BATU-LUM, a town of Campania.
BAT U-LUS, a surname of Demosthenes.
BA TYLLUS, a celebrated dancer.
BAU BO, an old woman, who gave Ceres
some drink, when tired with searching for Proserpine.
BAU CIS, an old woman, wife of Philemon,
who hospitably entertained Jupiter and Mercury.
BA'VI-US, a contemptible and malevolent

Roman poet.

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BE-NA CUS, a lake of Italy.
BEN-DID'I-UM, the temple of Bendis..
BEN'DIS, the Thracian Diana.

BEN-E-VENTUM, a town of the Hirpini; now

Benevento.

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BER-E-CYNTHI-A, a surname of Cybele.
BER-E-CYN THUS, a mountain in Phrygia,
sacred to Cybele.

BER-E-NICE, (30) or BE-RE-NICE, the beau-
tiful mother of Ptolemy Philadelphus.
BER-E-NICIS, a part of Africa.
BER'GI-ON, a giant.

BER-GIS'TA-NI, a people of Spain.
BE'RIS, and BA'RIS, a river of Cappadocia.
BER'MI-US, a mountain of Macedon.
BER'O-E, the nurse of Semele.
BE-REA, a large city of Thessaly.
BER-O-NICE, (30) see Berenice.

BE-RO'SUS, a priest of Belus, and celebrated

astronomer.

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BE'SA-RO, a city of Spain.

BE-SIDI-E, a town of Calabria.
BE-SIP PO, a town of Spain; now Bejer.
BES'SI, (3) a people of Thrace.
BES SUS, a governor of Bactria.
BES TI-A, a Roman surname.
Beta-si, a people of Belgium.
BE-TU'RI-A, a country of Lusitania.
BIA, the goddess of violence.
BI-A NOR, the founder of Mantua,

Lempriere accents this word on the first syllable; but Labbe, Ainsworth, Gouldman, and Holyoke, on the second; and these agree with Virgil, Eel, ix. v. 60.

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BE-O'TI-A, a country of Greece.
Ba-O'TUS, see Bootus.

BE-OR-O-BIS TAS, a disciplinarian of the Getæ.
Bo-E'THI-US, a Roman author, A.D. 470.
Bo'E-TUS, a poet of Tarsus.
Bo'E-US, one of the Heraclidæ.
Bo'GES, a præfect of Eion.
BO'GUD, a king of Mauritania.
Bo'Gus, a king of the Maurusii.
Bo'1-1, (3) a people of Gaul.

BO-JOC A-LUS, a general of the Germans.
BO'LA, a town of the Æqui.
BOL BE, a marsh near Mygdonia.

BOL-BI-TINUM, one of the mouths of the

Nile.

BION, a poet of Smyrna. Also, a Scythian BOLGI-US, a Gallic general.

philosopher.

BIR'RHUS, a celebrated robber.

BI-SALTE, a people of Macedonia.

BI-SAL TES, a man of Abydos.

BI-SAL TIS, a patronymic of Theophane.
BI-SAN THE, a town on the Propontis.

BIS TON, a son of Mars, who built Bistonia.
BIST'O-NES, the Thracians, so called from
Biston.

BIS-TO'NI-A, a city of Thrace.

BIS TO-NIS, a lake in Thrace.
BÍTHUS, a celebrated gladiator.
BITH'Y-Æ, Women of Scythia.

BI-THYN'I-A, a country of Asia Minor.
BITI-AS, a companion of Æneas.

BI'TON, the brother of Cleobis. The filial affection of the two brothers was immortalized by the

Athenians.

BI-TU-ITUS, a king of the Allobroges.
BI-TUN TUM, a town of Spain.
BI-TUR I-CUM, a people of Gaul.
BI-TUR'I-GES, a people of Gaul.

BIZ'I-A, a town on the Euxine.

BLE NA, a country of Pontus.

BO-LI'NA, an Achæan virgin beloved by Apollo. BOL-I-NE'US, a river in Achaia.

BO-LIS'SUS, an island near Chios.

BOL-LA NUS, a man of a very irascible disposition.

Bo'LUS, a king of the Cimbri.

BOM-I-EN'SES, a people near Ætolia.
BO-MIL CAR, a Carthaginian general.
BOM-O-NICE, (30) certain Spartan youths,
who were whipped in honour of Diana.
BO-NO NI-A, a city of Pannonia.
Bo-NO'SI-Us, an officer of Probus.
Bo-o'sU-RA, a town of Cyprus.
Bo-O'TES, a northern constellation.
Bo-o'tus, or BŒ-O'TUS, a son of Neptune.
BO'RE-A, a town taken by Pompey.
BO-RE'A-DES, the priests of the Hyperbo-

reans.

BORE-AS, the name of the north-wind.
BO-RE-AS MI, (3) an Athenian festival in

honour of Boreas.

BO RE-US, a Persian.

BOR'GES, a Persian who burnt himself.
BOR-GO DI, a people of Asia.

BLE'SI-1, (4) two Romans, who killed them- BOR'NOS, a place of Thrace.

selves because they were deprived of the priesthood.

BLE SUS, a Roman consul.

BLAN-DE-NO NA, a place near Placentia.
BLAN-DU SI-A, a fountain near Horace's

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BLU'CI-UM, (10) a castle in Bithynia.
BO-AD-I-CE'A, a queen of the ancient Britons.
Bo'E, and Bo'E-A, a town of Locris.
BO-A GRI-US, a river of the Locri.
BO-CA'LI-AS, a river of Salamis.
BOC CAR, a king of Mauritania.
BOC CHO-RIS, a king of Egypt.

Bоc'CHUS, a king of Getulia, who betrayed
Jugurtha to the Romans.
BO-DU-AG-NATUS, a leader of the Nervii.

BOR-SIP PA, a town of Babylonia.
BO'RUS, the husband of Polydora.
BO-RYS THE-NES, a large river of Scythia.
BOS PHO-RUS, or Bosp'o-RUS.

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BRA'SI-E, a town of Laconia.

BU-BA-CENE, a country of Asia. BRAS-I-DAS, a famous Lacedemonian ge- BU-BA'CES, an eunuch of Darius.

neral.

BU BA-RIS, a Persian general.

BRAS-I-DE'I-A, festivals in honour of Bra-Bu-BAS-TI'A-CUS, one of the mouths of the

sidas.

BRAS 1-LAS, a man of Cos.

BRAURE, a woman concerned in the mur

der of Pittacus.

BRAU RON, a town of Attica, where Diana

had a temple.

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Labbe tells us, that this word is sometimes pronounced with the penultimate accent, but more frequently with the antepenultimate.-[Qua nec terribiles Cimbri, nec Britones unquam, &c. Juv. Sat. xv. 124.Edit.]

BRIX-EL LUM, a town of Italy; now Bresello.
BRIX'I-A, a town in the north of Italy.
BRIZO, the goddess of dreams.
BROC-U-BELUS, a governor of Syria.
BRO'MI-US, a name of Bacchus.
BRO'MUS, one of the Centaurs.

BRON GUS, a river falling into the Danube.
BRON TES, One of the Cyclops.

BRON-TINUS, a Pythagorean philosopher.
BROTE-AS, one of the Lapitha.
BROTHE-US, a son of Vulcan.
BRUC'TE-RI, (4) a people of Germany.
BRU-MA LI-A, a Roman festival in honour of

Bacchus.

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Nile.

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BU-COL'I-CUM, one of the mouths of the Nile.
BU-CO'LI-ON, a son of king Laomedon.
Bu'co-LUS, a son of Hercules.

BU'DI-1, (3) or BU-DINI, a people of Scythia.
BU-DO'RUM, a promontory of Salamis.
BU'LIS, a town of Phocis.

BUL-LA'TI-US, (10) a friend of Horace.
BU NE-A, a surname of Juno.
BU'NUS, a son of Mercury.
BU PA-LUS, a statuary.

BU'PHA-GUS, a surname of Hercules.
BU-PHO ́NI-A, an Athenian festival in honour
of Jupiter.

BU-PRA'SI-UM, a city of Elis.

BU'RA, or BURIS, a city in the bay of

Corinth.

BU-RA I-CUS, an epithet of Hercules, who had a temple at Bura.

BUR RHUS, one of Nero's guards.
BUR'SA, a city of Bithynia.
BUR'SI-A, a town of Babylonia.
Bu ́sÆ, a nation of Media.
BU-SI'R

IRIS, a barbarous king of Egypt.
BU'TA, a town of Greece.
BU'TE-0, a Roman orator.

BUTES, the armour-bearer of Anchises and
Ascaníus,

BU-THRO TUM, a town of Epirus.
BUTH-RO TUS, a river of Italy.
BU-THYR E-US, a famous statuary.
BU-To's, an island in the Mediterranean.
BU-TOR'I-DES, a writer on the pyramids.
BU'Tos, a town of Egypt.

BU-TUN TUM, an inland town of Apulia.
Burus, a son of Pandion.

BU-ZY'GES, an Athenian husbandman.
BYB-LE'SI-A, and BY-BAS'SI-A, a country of

Caria.

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C.

CA-AN'THUS, a son of Oceanus.
CAB'A-DES, (20) a king of Persia.
CAB'A-LA, a place in Sicily.
CAB'A-LES, (20) a people of Africa.
CA-BAL'I-1, (5) a people of Asia Minor.
CAB-A-LI NUS, a fountain on Mount Helicon.
CAB-ALLA-CA, a town in Arcadia.
CA-BAR'NI, the priests of Cabarnos.
CAB-AL-LI'NUM, a town of the Ædui.
CA-BAR NOS, a god, worshipped at Paros.
CA-BE'SUS, a city of Thrace.
CA-BALLI-O, (4) a city of Gaul.

CA-BIRA, a wife of Vulcan.

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CE-SA-ROM A-GUS, the capital of the Bellovaci; now Beauvois.

CA-SE'NA, a city in Flaminia.

CE-SEN'NI-US, one of Nero's generals.

CE-CE TI-US, (10) a Roman who protected his
children against Cæsar.

CE SI-A, (10) a surname of Minerva.
CA'SI-Us, (10) a Latin poet.

CA'SO, a son of Cincinnatus.

CA-SO'NI-A, a lascivious woman, wife of
Caligula.

CA-SONI-US, a friend of Seneca.
CETO-BRIX, a town of Lusitania.

CA-BIRI, (3) certain deities worshipped at CAT'U-LUM, a town of Spain.

Thebes and Lemnos.

CA-BIR'I-A, a surname of Ceres.

CA-BURA, (7) a fountain in Mesopotamia.

CAB'U-RUS, (20) a chief of the Helvetii.

CA'CA, a Roman goddess.

CACH'A-LES, (20) a river of Phocis.

CA'CUS, a celebrated robber, son of Vulcan

and Medusa.

CA-CU'THIS, a river of India.
CA-CYPA-RIS, a river of Sicily.
CA'DI, (3) a town of Phrygia.
CAD-ME'A, the citadel of Thebes.
CAD-ME IS, an ancient name of Boeotia.
CAD'MUS, the founder of Thebes.
CA'DRA, (7) a mountain in Asia.
CA-DU'CE-US, (10) the wand of Mercury.
CA-DUR CI, (3) a people of Gaul.

CA-DUS CI, a nation near the Caspian Sea.
CAD'Y-TIS, a town of Syria.

CE'A, (7) an island in the Ægean Sea.
CA'CI-AS, (10) the E.N.E. wind.
CE-CIL'I-A, a name of Tanaquil.
CE-CIL-I-A NUS, a Latin writer.

CA-CIL'I-I, (4) a plebeian family at Rome.
CE-CILI-US, the prænomen of Metellus.
CE-CINA TUS'cus, a son of Nero's nurse.
CAC U-BUM, a town of Campania.
CECU-LUS, a son of Vulcan.
CE-DIC'I-US, (10) a Roman consul.
CELI-A (Lex), a Roman law respecting

treason.

CELI-US, a disciple and client of Cicero.
CAM'A-RO, a Greek, who wrote a history of

India.

CENE, or CE-NOP'O-LIS, the same as Ta

narus.

CE'NE-US, one of the Argonauts.

CAN-IDES, a patronymic of Eetion.

CE-NINA, a town of Latium.

CEYX, see Ceyx.

CA-GA CO, a fountain of Laconia.
CA-I-CINUS, a river in Italy.
CA-I'CUS, a companion of Æneas.
CAI-E'TA, a seaport of Latium.

CA'I-US, and CA'I-A, a Roman prænomen to

each sex respectively.

CAL AB-ER, (Q.) a poet of the third century,
who wrote a continuation of Homer's poems.
CA-LA BRI-A, a country of Italy.
CAL'A-BRUS, a river of Calabria.
CAL-A-GUR-RI-TA'NI, a people of Spain.
CAL'A-IS, one of the Argonauts.
CA-LAGU-TIS, a river of Spain.
CAL'A-MIS, (20) a famous engraver.
CAL-A-MI SE, islands near Lydia.
CALA-MOS, a town of Asia.

CAL ́A-MUS, (20) a son of the river Meander.

CA-LA NUS, a celebrated Indian philosopher.
CALA-ON, a river of Asia.

CALA-RIS, a city of Sardinia.

CAL'AT-ES, a town of Thrace.

CAL-A-THA'NA, a town of Macedonia.
CA-LA THI-ON, a mountain of Laconia.
CAL ́A-THUS, a son of Jupiter.
CA-LA TI-A, a town of Campania.
CA-LA TI-E, (10) a people of India.
CA-LA'VI-I, (4) a people of Campania.
CA-LA'VI-US, a governor of Capua.
CAL-AU-RE'A, and CAL-AU-RIA, an island
opposite Trozene.

CAL BIS, a river of Caria.

CAL-CA'GUS, a prince of ancient Britain.
CALCE, a city of Campania.

CAL CHAS, a celebrated soothsayer in the
Grecian army at the war of Troy.
CAL-CHE-DO'NI-A, see Chalcedon.

CAL-CHIN'I-A, (12) a daughter of Leucippus.

CA'NIS, a Thessalian woman, whose sex was CAL'DUS CALI-US, a Roman suicide.

changed by Neptune.

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CALE, CA LIS, or CA-LE'NUM, a town of
Campania famous for its wine.

CAL-E-DO NI-A, the ancient name of Scotland.
CA-LEN'TUM, a place in Spain.

CA-LE NUS, an Etrurian soothsayer.
CA-LE'SI-Us, (10) a charioteer of Axylus.
CA-LETE, a people of Gaul.

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