Berytian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: Berytan
form: Berytean
Etymology: From Berytus + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from, related to, or like’; or ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’). Berytus is derived from Latin Bērȳtus, from Ancient Greek Βηρῡτός (Bērūtós), from a Semitic source.
Senses: examples: text: [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: [...]
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: [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'; [...]
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2017, Mark Woolmer, “Religion”, in A Short History of the Phoenicians, London; New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris & Co., →ISBN, page 114:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: One of the inscriptions set up by the Berytian association records how its members in their meetings had honored the Athenian people with crowns [...]
ref: 2019, Taco Terpstra, “Public Institutions and the Phoenician Trade”, in Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions, Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Berytus (“the ancient city of Beirut”).