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.