994 BEBOEA. ion.; Hiandcsi Ealdi, Alep|v), a awa in Sjtia (Stnb. in. p. 7SI), about mulna]' between Antiocb and Hiempdii. (Pncop. il.i>. ii. 7; Ftol. t. IS.) Jalian, aftir a iBborioog nuindi of two i*.yt fmn Ad- tiodi, halted CO the third at B«fDea. ( Joliui, £pu<. uvii.; Tbeodorei. iii. !3j Mihnu'i tiibbon, tcj. ii;. ti.l44;LiiBc«a,Bai£>i^,VDl.iiLp.56.> Cboi- ms, in bia innad opn ^jria, A. D. ft40, deouDdcd a bribote from Suroea, iriooh ba nmitted aAviiiBids, ■I the iuhaUtanti vere nnible to paj it. (Pracop. fi.P. iL 7; Hilman'a GibbH, toL tu. fL SIS; Le B«an, «irf. ii. p. 13.) a. d. 611 Cbosron IL Mcn- pied thii citf. (Gibbm, toI. Tiii. p. 321.) It owed ita Haoadonian naaiB of Beroea to tialencoi Nkatw, •nd (mtiniwd to be called n till lb* conqoeat bj the Arabs nnder Abu Obddah, A. n. 638, when it m- BURiiid ita anciait name of Cbaleb or CbalyboE. (Ni- «pfa. B. E. liT. 39 ; ScbulIen'B ladtx Geoff, g. v. HaM ! WiBM, BiU SmI- W/H-l. ft«A.) It after- vards became tie capUi of the SnlUns of the racfl of Hamadan, but in tba latter part of the lentb cen- tui7 was united to the Greek empire bj tba cmqncats of Zimiacc!, eBpercr of Oooatantinople. Tbe eiua- TBtiooi I littia wBf eastward of the towo, an the of Urge iputmeDla, wbich are a^xinlcd b; poiticai of aolid nick, with mawin plaaten left at intervais to support the man abors. (Cbesae;, Etped. £»• plHvL Tol. i. p. 435.) lu present pt^Hlatiiti ia aame- «bat nan Ihao 1 00,000 souls. For cohis of Beroea, Intli autononuoe mid impeml, nuiginji fran Trejao .to Antooinua, gee Raadie, ToL L p. 1492; £i;kbcl, vol. iii. p. 3S9. 4. (Btf>^ I tfacc. ix. 4), a nllafn In Judaea (iicland, PdtoeK. p. 640), which, amiffdine to Winar <>. T.), miHt not be cmrouDilBd with the Berea men- tiontd S Mace. liii. 4. [E. B. J.] HERO'NES or VERO'NES (BAp««i), a peuple in the N, of Hiipuiia TarrKMnenma, alonR the uppw conne of the Iberus (Jftro), on its riKbt bank, about J^n^roSa, between the CEi.TiBeRi on the S^ and the Cantabbi od the fl., SE. of tba Autrtookbs, and on the borders of the CoSTKOTAm. Thej wm a Celtic people, and ub nwnUoned I17 Stiabo as fom- inf[, with the Cehibeii, the chief renmant of the old Celtic popntalim of 8[«n. (Liv. Fr. id., when (bo cennnoD rcsdin^ is Viroaet : Strab. Iii. pp, 158, 163; Ptol. ii. 6. § 55.) Tbe followjnf! were their
- hiaf citiMi Tiurnja Metau-ub (TpiTwr Mt-
TaMw, Ptol.i TWcio, nei Nagtra), in the Anto- nuM Itinerarj (p. 394) simply Tritium, on the hij-h md from Leps VII, (Lam) to Caaaraugosta, 36 II. P, SE, of ViROVESCA, and not to be confoundoil with a placo uf the same name W. of ViroTwca: Vehbu, «i the same i«d, 18 U.P. SE. of Tritium, and 88 NW. of Cai-oukris (CaWorra, /(in, p. 393), ondoubtodly the Varbia ot Vahia (Oiiiffiii, Onipia) of IJvy, Stiabo, Pliny, and Ptolemy, wlrieli .he strongest dty of the district (Liv. L c): it St a passage of the Ibems (gtrab. p. 162), S60M.P.(PUn.iii.3.s.4).' it Mill bean its ancient Dame (Fares, a little below Lo^roiio, with <rbich some confonnd it; Flore>, Caslabr. p. 196 ; McQ- (elle, Etp.Mtd. p. 363): Ouba ('OAtfa, Ptol.: •ome assume a cormptjOQ by tranapoaitSon, and idejj- tiiy it witb the 'OACia mentioned by Steplianus By. lantinns as a dty of Iberia) ; Conthkbiua, aLw called Leucaa, a stronghold of Sertorius, as bdng the moat convenient hflid-qnaTteis, from which to march out of the teiritory of the Beroa« into any of the DDgbboarinK distncts (Lit. Fr. id. p. 27, where mention is also made of another important city of the same name bclon^n^ to the Ccltiberi): Ukerttakea it for the Cantabria on the lOro, wbich is mentioned iu the middle tg.a, and the rtuna of which are seen between Ziojrono and J'ia'w. (Sandoval. jIwiki*. Ac. quotfd by D'Anville, Him. th lAoA det Imcr. voLii. p. 771; Ukert, vol. it pt. i. p^ 381, 4S7, 4S8.) [i: S.} BEROTHA (fi^pien), mfntioned only by Jo- •ephns aa a city of Upper Galilee, not far from Cadcsh (Naphthali) (^nl. v. 1. % IS). He makte it the scene of the deciaive battle which Joahna fooirbt with the northern kinc«i " at the wattre of Ueinm." (JoiA. xi. 1—9.) [G.W ] BERUUIUM, the thurd pronontory on the noftb- wFst coaat of Scotland, aooocding to Itoleniy. Pi^ bably, A^oai ffMii [R.G.L.] BERYA, a town in Apomene, according to the PeiUmgiT Tabht. SK. of Aniioch, 35 M. P. fmn Chsl«aaodS4M.P. fnxnBathaa. Niebobi (Aeise, vol. ill. p. 95) fouB^ roany nuas under the name of Btn.a. [E. B. J ] BKRYT(JS(BitpvrJi,BerftuaaIldBet;tus: Eli. Bi||i>>Tuif , Berytcnris, nerytiuB,Stepb.B.Scyhii,p. 42; Dionys.Fer.T.911; Pomp. Mela, i. 12. g 9; Amm. }[ar.iiv.8.§e; Ttc.Hul.a.Bl; /tin.Aalim.i Pent. Tab.; Gtogr. Rav. Hierocka: BtiritC), a town of Phoenicia, wbich has been identified by some with tbe Bemtha or Berothai of the Hcbtew ScHptntn. (2 San. viii. S; A'g&t. xlyii. 16.) In the former pSKiai^e Berothai is spoken of aa belnngini; to the kingdom of Zobah (comp. v. S), which ^ipean to have included Hamath (comp. w, 9, 10; 2 CiniK. viii, 3). In tba latter passage the bisiier of Israel ia drawn in poetic viBkn, apparently from the Aledi- tcrranean, by Hamath and Berothan, towaids Da- mascus and Hauran. The Bsrotha hen meant would, S3 Mr. Robinson {Paleilme, vol. iii. f. 442) argun, more naturally seem to have been an inland dty. After ita destmction bj Tiyphon, B. c. 140 (Stmb. rri. p. TS6), it was iniaoed by A^pp, and colo- nised by the vetenuis of the v. Uacedmica f^o and vilL Augusta, and became a Roman cokny under the name of Colonia Julia Anguata felli Beiytna (Ordli, Inter, n. 514, and cmns in Eckhel, vol. iii. p. 356; Msrquardt, HamOtick der Kom. All, p. 199), uid waa afterwards eulowod >Tith the rights of an Italian city. (L'lpion, Zit<r. 15. 1. § 1; I'lin. V. SO.) It ffas at this city that Herod the Great held the moek tiial over his two sons. (Jueepli. .Jntlvi. 11,§§I— 6.) TheeldorA^rippaKmtly hvoored tl^e city, and adorned it with a eiilcndiil IheMn aud unphithsntre, boide baths and puninKS. innuftarating them with games and apectadei of every kind, mclndlng shows of gladiators. (Joseph. AnL lit 7. 5 S.) He™, too, Titoi celebrated the birthday of his &thor Vespauau by the eihibitioo of
