Berytian

alternative Berytan · alternative Berytean

1. historicalnot comparableOf or pertaining to Berytus (“the ancient city of Beirut”).

   The only detailed accounts of Berytian religious beliefs and practices are found in a number of Greek and Roman texts written in or after the first century ce.

   2017, Mark Woolmer, “Religion”, in A Short History of the Phoenicians, London; New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris & Co., →ISBN, page 114

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   [P]reſently after Gideons death, the Iſraelites worſhipped Baal Berith, or Beryti, from the Citie called Berytum, [...] The like Judg[es] 9. 2, 4. i.e. the Idol of Berith, or the Berytian Citie. Whence it is moſt likely, that Gideon making a League, or having frequent Commerce with ſome Berytian perſon of great fame, it gave the occaſion of this piece of Jewiſh idolatrie, otherwiſe unknown: [...]

   1671, Theoph[ilus] Gale, “Of the Phenecian Philosophie, Its Traduction from the Jews”, in The Court of the Gentiles: Or, A Discourse Touching the Original of Human Literature, both Philologie, and Philosophie, from the Scriptures, and Jewish Church: […], part II (Of Philosophie), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Will[iam] Hall, for Tho[mas] Gilbert, →OCLC, page 51

   It will have been observed that the names of the Tyrian, Sidonian, and Berytian learned men and authors of the time—Antipater, Apollonius, Boëthus, Diodotus, Philo, Hermippus, Marinus, Paulus, Maximus, Porphyrius—are without exception either Latin or Greek.

   1889, George Rawlinson, “Political History”, in History of Phœnicia, London; New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, § 7 (Phœnicia under the Greeks (b.c. 323–65)), page 549

   [T]he book actually does cram together a great deal of legal knowledge. Schulz thought that it could only be a product, directly or indirectly, of the school of Beirut and proposed to rename it 'the Berytean lawbook'; [...]

   1987, Patricia Crone, “The State of the Field”, in Roman, Provincial, and Islamic Law: The Origins of the Islamic Patronate (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 13

   Byzantine believers showed equally little interest in the removal of the Alexandrian school to Antioch after Olympiodorus, and of the Berytian law school to Sidon after the disastrous earthquake of 557.

   1994, Gunnar af Hällström, “The Closing of the Neoplatonic School in A.D. 529: An Additional Aspect”, in Paavo Castrén, editor, Post-Herulian Athens (Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens; 1), Helsinki: Suomen Ateenan-instituutin Säätiö [Finnish Institute at Athens], →ISBN, page 159

   Numerous inscriptions relating to soldiers and officers have been found in Numidia and in Gaul [...]. The one example that relates to Berytan merchants comes from Puteoli in Italy.

   2019, Simone Paturel, “Roman Berytus”, in Jonathan M[ark] Hall, Jan Paul Crielaard, Benet Salway, editors, Baalbek-Heliopolis, the Bekaa, and Berytus from 100 BCE to 400 CE (Mnemosyne Supplements: History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity; 426), Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 145

plural Berytians · alternative Berytan · alternative Berytean

1. historicalA native or inhabitant of Berytus (“the ancient city of Beirut”).

   Nonnus, the poet of Panopolis in Egypt, records this claim of the Berytians in verses [...]

   1846, John Dudley, “On Cave Temples”, in Naology: Or, A Treatise on the Origin, Progress, and Symbolical Import of the Sacred Structures of the Most Eminent Nations and Ages of the World, London: F[rancis] and J[ohn] Rivington, […]; Leicester, Leicestershire: J. S. Crossley, →OCLC, page 289

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   So that whether the Hermippus, whom he ſo frequently quotes, was the Smyrnean or the Berytian, is not always certain, and for the moſt part, can only be collected from Circumſtances and Conjecture.

   1736, [Charles Hayes], A Vindication of the History of the Septuagint from the Misrepresentations of the Learned Scaliger, Dupin, Dr. Hody, Dr. Prideaux, and Other Modern Criticks, London: […] T. Woodward, […], →OCLC, page 42

   It is scarcely possible to attribute to it any other use but that of a basilica, a large public hall, where the Phœnician merchants were in the habit of congregating, probably for commercial transactions. It may have been the Exchange of the Berytans.

   1854, F[élicien] de Saulcy, chapter I, in Edward de Warren, editor, Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands; […], new (2nd) edition, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 13

   Sanchuniathon also, a Sidonian according to some, according to others a Syrian, and to others a Berytean, is said to have lived before or during the time of the Trojan war.

   1877, Max[imilian Wolfgang] Duncker, “The Religious Rites of the Canaanites”, in Evelyn Abbott, transl., The History of Antiquity. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley & Son, […], →OCLC, page 352

   In the commercial, social and religious activities of Delos, the Berytians occupied a position second only to that of the Italians.

   1951, Philip K[huri] Hitti, “Trade and Industry”, in History of Syria: Including Lebanon and Palestine, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part III (The Greco-Roman Period), page 274

   If we widen the search for evidence to take in the undated, but Hellenistic, inscriptions recording the presence of Berytians, the picture is less restricted geographically, but equally instructive commercially.

   1991, John D. Grainger, Hellenistic Phoenicia, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 209