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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of hemipterous insects, typical of the family Berytidæ.
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South of Byblos was Berytus Beirut on a prominent headland, then the famous Phoenician port of Sidon halfway down the coast of Lebanon.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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South of Byblos was Berytus Beirut on a prominent headland, then the famous Phoenician port of Sidon halfway down the coast of Lebanon.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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South of Byblos was Berytus Beirut on a prominent headland, then the famous Phoenician port of Sidon halfway down the coast of Lebanon.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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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
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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.
Sense & Sensuality 2009
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Leuke Kome was a small port near Berytus in Syria, a less public place by far than ports like Berytus, Sidon, Joppa.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Leuke Kome was a small port near Berytus in Syria, a less public place by far than ports like Berytus, Sidon, Joppa.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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For the present, marching his army in great haste in the depth of winter through continual storms of snow, he lost eight thousand of his men, and came with much diminished numbers to a place called the White Village, between Sidon and Berytus, on the seacoast, where he waited for the arrival of Cleopatra.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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The most important cities were Arvad, Gubal or Byblos, Sidon, and Tyre; other cities were Marathus, Berytus (Beirut), and Ecdippa.
6. Phoenicia, Carthage, and the Phoenician Colonies, c. 1200-322 B.C.E 2001
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Then a thousand years ago came the Phoenicians from Tyre and Sidon and Berytus on the Syrian coast, and after them came the Greeks.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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