Meaning of Berytian | Babel Free

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

historical

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Examples

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“At the time of the Messiah Jesus, Tyre had such a large number of Syrians (Arameans), Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Berytians, Aradians, Tripolitanians, Egyptians and Sareptians that there is no evidence, even according to the archaeological finds, that inhabitants had Tyrian/Phoenician blood.”

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