Bromius, a surname of Bacchus, from βρεμειν, frendere, alluding to the groans which Semele uttered when consumed by Jupiter’s fire. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 4, li. 11.——A son of Ægyptus. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 1.
Bromus, one of the Centaurs. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 12, li. 459.
Brongus, a river falling into the Ister. Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 49.
Brontēs (thunder), one of the Cyclops. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 8, li. 425.
Brontīnus, a Pythagorean philosopher.——The father of Theano the wife of Pythagoras. Diogenes Laërtius.
Broteas and Ammon, two men famous for their skill in the cestus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 5, li. 107.——One of the Lapithæ.
Brotheus, a son of Vulcan and Minerva, who burned himself to avoid the ridicule to which his deformity subjected him. Ovid, Ibis, li. 517.
Bructēri, a people of Germany, inhabiting the country at the east of Holland. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 1, ch. 51.
Brumālia, festivals celebrated at Rome in honour of Bacchus, about the month of December. They were first instituted by Romulus.
Brundusium, now Brundisi, a city of Calabria, on the Adriatic sea where the Appian road was terminated. It was founded by Diomedes after the Trojan war, or, according to Strabo, by Theseus, with a Cretan colony. The Romans generally embarked at Brundusium for Greece. It is famous for the birth of the poet Pacuvius and the death of Virgil, and likewise for its harbour, which is capacious and sheltered by the land, and by a small island at the entrance, against the fury of the winds and waves. Little remains of the ancient city, and even its harbour has now been choked up by the negligence of the inhabitants. Justin, bk. 3, ch. 4; bk. 12, ch. 2.—Strabo, bk. 5.—Cæsar, Civil War, bk. 1, ch. 24.—Cicero, Letters to Atticus, bk. 4, ltr. 1.