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  • She was also the mother of Hermaphroditus with Mercury (Hermes), Priapus with Dionysus (Bacchus), and Beroe (after whom the city Berytus in Lebanon was named) with Adonis.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • She was also the mother of Hermaphroditus with Mercury (Hermes), Priapus with Dionysus (Bacchus), and Beroe (after whom the city Berytus in Lebanon was named) with Adonis.

    Sense & Sensuality 2009

  • These catch hold of and twine around some fixed thing, and moor the craft; and when the Beroe is about to be roving again, they unwind themselves, and all slip quietly back into the little ice-ball out of sight.

    St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 Various

  • It's about a kind of jelly-fish which he called a "Globe-Beroe," I think; but you can find out for yourselves, if I caught the name aright or not.

    St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 Various

  • Beroe (ber´-o-e, first _e_ like ei in _their_), 35.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

  • Besides this Beroea, there was in Thracia a Beroe, or Augusta Trajana

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • Pyr'go by name, who had just then joined the party, discovered that it was not Beroe who had been speaking, for she recognized in the eyes and voice and gait, the resemblance of a goddess.

    Story of Aeneas Michael Clarke 1880

  • Subsequently I had the wished-for opportunity of tracing the development of a Hyperia which is not uncommon upon Ctenophora, especially Beroe gilva, Eschsch. The youngest larva from the brood-pouch of the mother already possess THE

    Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859

  • We have a familiar example in the _Beroe_ of our own seas, a most attractive little being, and a prime favourite with naturalists, who have described its habits and celebrated its beauty with enthusiasm.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852 Various 1841

  • Assuming the form of Beroe, her aged nurse, she insinuated doubts whether it was indeed Jove himself who came as a lover.

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

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