Berytan

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English

Adjective

Berytan (comparative more Berytan, superlative most Berytan)

  1. Alternative form of Berytian
    • 1961, A Study of History, volume 7, page 272:
      Justinian's board of commissioners was composed of representatives of four parties: Constantinopolitan officials, Constantinopolitan professors, Berytan professors [...]
    • 1996, Codex Bezae, page 335:
      Having firmly nailed my colours to the Berytan mast, I have simply to offer my case as an ill-favoured thing [...]
    • 2004, The Roman Coinage of Cyprus, page 151:
      The coin of Berytus in the Salamis hoard likewise is paralleled by the Berytan coins found at Kourion.
    • 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:
      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.

Noun

Berytan (plural Berytans)

  1. Alternative form of Berytian
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1994, The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting, page 240:
      Moreover, the Berytans were fervent worshippers of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus [...]
    • 2017, John D. Grainger, Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300:
      The Tyrians and the Sareptans had clearly formed themselves into some sort of social-cum-religious clubs, just as had the Berytans [...]

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