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1 Belus
Bēlus, i, m., = Bêlos; Heb..I.An Asiatic king of a primitive age, builder of Babylon and founder of the Babylonian kingdom, Verg. A. 1, 621; 1, 729 sq.:II.priscus,
Ov. M. 4, 213 (like Bêlos ho archaios, Aelian. V. H. 13, 3).—An Indian deity, compared with Hercules of the Greeks, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; cf. Robinson, Dict., under.—III.A king of Egypt, father of Danaus and Ægyptus. —IV.Derivv.A.Bēlīdes, ae (for the length of the i, cf. Prisc. p. 584 P.), m., = Bêlidês, a male descendant of Belus:B.Belidae fratres,
i. e. Danaus and Ægyptus, Stat. Th. 6, 291:surge, age, Belide, de tot modo fratribus unus,
i. e. Lynceus, son of Ægyptus, Ov. H. 14, 73:Palamedes,
Verg. A. 2, 82 (septimo gradu a Belo originem ducens, Serv.).—Bēlis, ĭdis, f., and usu. in plur., Bēlĭdĕs, um, the granddaughters of Belus, the Belides, = Danaides (v. Danaus), Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 62; id. A. A. 1, 74; id. M. 4, 463; 10, 44.—C.Bēlĭăs, ădis, f., = Belis, Sen. Herc. Oet. 961.—V. VI.A river of Galilee, on the borders of Phœnicia, now Nahr Naaman, Plin. 5, 19, 17, § 75; Tac. H. 5, 7.
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