Berrhœa, a town of Macedonia. Thucydides, bk. 1, ch. 61.
Bery̆tus, now Berut, an ancient town of Phœnicia, on the coast of the Mediterranean, famous in the age of Justinian for the study of law. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 20.
Besa, a fountain in Thessaly. Strabo, bk. 8.
Besidlæ, a town of the Brutii. Livy, bk. 30, ch. 19.
Besippo, a town of Hispania Bætica, where Mela was born. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 6.
Bessi, a people of Thrace, on the left side of the Strymon, who lived upon rapine. Ovid, Tristia, bk. 4, poem 1, li. 67.—Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 111.
Bessus, a governor of Bactriana, who, after the battle of Arbela, seized Darius his sovereign and put him to death. After this murder, he assumed the title of king, and was some time after brought before Alexander, who gave him to Oxatres the brother of Darius. The prince ordered his hands and ears to be cut off, and his body to be exposed on a cross, and shot at by the soldiers. Justin, bk. 12, ch. 5.—Curtius, bks. 6 & 7.——A parricide who discovered the murder he had committed, upon observing a nest of swallows, which, as he observed, reproached him with his crime. Plutarch.
Lucius Bestia, a seditious Roman, who conspired with Catiline against his country. Cicero, bk. 2, Philippics.
Betis, a river in Spain, See: [Bætis].——A governor of Gaza, who bravely defended himself against Alexander, for which he was treated with cruelty by the conqueror.
Beturia, a country in Spain.