Bebryces
- a people inhabiting Bebrycia, a province of Asia Minor, afterwards called Bithynia, Plin. 5, 30, 33, § 127; Val. Fl. 4, 315.—
- II Derivv.
- A Bē-brȳ̆cĭa, ae, f., = Βεβρυκία, the province inhabited by the Bebrycians, afterwards Bithynia, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 5, 373; Val. Fl. 5, 502; y long in Avien. Perieg. 974.—
- B Bēbryx, ȳ̆cis, m., a Bebrycian, Val. Fl. 4, 315; and, κατʼ ἐξοχήν, an ancient king in Bebrycia, also called Amycus, who, being powerful in the contest with the caestus, was accustomed to sacrifice foreigners whom he had vanquished, but was finally himself overcome by Pollux, and slain, Val. Fl. 4, 261 and 290: Bebryca (acc. Gr.), Stat. Ach. 1, 190.—
- C Bēbrȳ̆cĭus, a, um. adj., pertaining to the province Bebrycia, of Bebrycia: gens, Verg. A. 5, 373: regnum, Val. Fl. 4, 99: fretum, id. 4, 220.—
- 2 Pertaining to King Bebryx: harena, upon which Pollux fought with Amycus, Stat. S. 4, 5, 28: nemus, in which Amycus lay in wait for foreigners, id. Th. 3, 352: cruor, the blood shed by him, Tert. Carm. Sod. 2.—Also pertaining to the Bithynian king Prusias: hospes, Sid. Carm. 2, 304.
- a people in Gallia Narbonensis, on the Pyrenees, Sil. 3, 423 sq.—
- II Derivv.
- A Bēbryx, ȳcis, m., a Bebrycian; κατʼ ἐξοχήν, an ancient king of the Bebrycians, whose daughter Pyrene gave name to the mountains there, Sil. 3, 423.—
- B Bēbrycĭus, a, um, adj., pertaining to King Bebryx, Bebrycian: aula, Sil. 3, 443: virgo, i.e. Pyrene, id. 3, 420.
BE´BRYCES (Βέβρυκες, their country Βεβρυκία).
1.A nation on the Pontus in Asia. Stephanus (s. v. Βυσναῖοι) also mentions the Bysnaei as a tribe of Bebryces. Strabo (p. 295) supposes the Bebryces to have been of Thracian stock, and that their first place of settlement in Asia was Mysia. Dionysius Periegetes (805; and see the commentary of Eustathius) places the Bebryces where the river Cius enters the Propontus, that is, about the Gulf of Cius. Eratosthenes (Plin. Nat. 5.30) enumerates the Bebryces among the Asiatic nations that had perished. In fact, the Bebryces belong to mythology rather than to history. [G.L]
2.An Iberian people, regarded as aboriginal, dwelling on both sides of the Pyrenees. They were wild and uncivilized, and subsisted on the produce of their flocks and herds. (Avien. Or. Marit. 485; Sil. Ital.--443, 15.494; Tzetz. ad Lycophr. 516, 1305; Zonar. 8.21; Humboldt, die Urbewohner Hispaniens, p. 94.) [P.S]
(Βέβρυκες). The original inhabitants of Bithynia (q.v.), which was also called Bebrycia, from Bebrycé, a daughter of Danaüs.
- the Argonauts among the: Apollod. 1.9.19
- a Mysian tribe, conquered by Herakles: Apollod. 2.5.9