AU-XE'SI-A, (11) a virgin stoned to death at | BA-GO'As, and BA-GO'SAS, an Egyptian eu A-ZIRIS, a place in Libya. nuch, of great influence in the court of Artaxerxes. BAIE, a famous city of Campania. Syria. BA-LA CRUS, one of Alexander's officers. BA-LARI, a people of Sardinia. 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. BA-LISTA, a mountain of Liguria. BAL'Y-RAS, a river of Peloponnesus. 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 CHA, the name of a noble Carthaginian family. BAR-DEI, a people of Illyricum. BAR DI, a sacerdotal order of the Gauls. 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. BA'RI-UM, a town of Apulia. BAR NU-US, a town of Macedonia. 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. BAS'I-LIS, a city of Arcadia. BA-SIL'I-US, (31) a celebrated African bishop. Bacchus. BASTI-A, the wife of Metellus. BA-TA VI, the people of Batavia. BATH Y-CLES, an artist of Magnesia. BANTI-A, a town of Apulia. 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 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. BA-TINA, and BAN-TI NA, the inhabitants of BELUS, one of the first kings of Babylon. Bantia. Homer. BATON, a charioteer of Amphiaraus. BATU-LUM, a town of Campania. Roman poet. BE-NA CUS, a lake of Italy. BEN-E-VENTUM, a town of the Hirpini; now Benevento. BER-E-CYNTHI-A, a surname of Cybele. BER-E-NICE, (30) or BE-RE-NICE, the beau- BER-GIS'TA-NI, a people of Spain. BE-RO'SUS, a priest of Belus, and celebrated astronomer. BE'SA-RO, a city of Spain. BE-SIDI-E, a town of Calabria. 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. BE-O'TI-A, a country of Greece. BE-OR-O-BIS TAS, a disciplinarian of the Getæ. BO-JOC A-LUS, a general of the Germans. 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. BIS TON, a son of Mars, who built Bistonia. BIS-TO'NI-A, a city of Thrace. BIS TO-NIS, a lake in Thrace. BI-THYN'I-A, a country of Asia Minor. 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. 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. reans. BORE-AS, the name of the north-wind. honour of Boreas. BO RE-US, a Persian. BOR'GES, a Persian who burnt himself. 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. BLU'CI-UM, (10) a castle in Bithynia. Bоc'CHUS, a king of Getulia, who betrayed BOR-SIP PA, a town of Babylonia. There were 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. 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. BRON GUS, a river falling into the Danube. BRON-TINUS, a Pythagorean philosopher. Bacchus. Nile. BU-COL'I-CUM, one of the mouths of the Nile. BU'DI-1, (3) or BU-DINI, a people of Scythia. BUL-LA'TI-US, (10) a friend of Horace. BU'PHA-GUS, a surname of Hercules. 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. IRIS, a barbarous king of Egypt. BUTES, the armour-bearer of Anchises and BU-THRO TUM, a town of Epirus. BU-TUN TUM, an inland town of Apulia. BU-ZY'GES, an Athenian husbandman. Caria. C. CA-AN'THUS, a son of Oceanus. CA-BIRA, a wife of Vulcan. 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 CE SI-A, (10) a surname of Minerva. CA'SO, a son of Cincinnatus. CA-SO'NI-A, a lascivious woman, wife of CA-SONI-US, a friend of Seneca. 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-DUS CI, a nation near the Caspian Sea. CE'A, (7) an island in the Ægean Sea. CA-CIL'I-I, (4) a plebeian family at Rome. treason. CELI-US, a disciple and client of Cicero. 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-US, and CA'I-A, a Roman prænomen to each sex respectively. CAL AB-ER, (Q.) a poet of the third century, CAL ́A-MUS, (20) a son of the river Meander. CA-LA NUS, a celebrated Indian philosopher. CALA-RIS, a city of Sardinia. CAL'AT-ES, a town of Thrace. CAL-A-THA'NA, a town of Macedonia. CAL BIS, a river of Caria. CAL-CA'GUS, a prince of ancient Britain. CAL CHAS, a celebrated soothsayer in the 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. CALE, CA LIS, or CA-LE'NUM, a town of CAL-E-DO NI-A, the ancient name of Scotland. CA-LE NUS, an Etrurian soothsayer. |