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Bora, ae, m., a mountain in Macedonia, now Nitje, Liv. 45, 19, 8 sq.

Borcāni, ōrum, m., a people of Apulia, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 105.

bŏrĕālis, e, v. boreas, II. B.

bŏrĕas (borras, Prud. Psych. 847; Paul. Nol. Carm. 17, 245), ae, m., = Βορέας or Βορρᾶς.

  1. I. The north wind; pure Lat aquilo, Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 119: ventus Boreas, Nep. Milt. 2, 4: Boreae frigus, Verg. G. 1, 93: tellus boreā rigida spirante, id. ib. 2, 316; id. A. 3, 687: horrifer, Ov. M. 1, 65: praeceps, id. ib. 2, 185; 13, 418; 15, 471; Col. poët. 10, 288; Stat. S. 5, 1, 82.
    Acc. Borean, Ov. M. 15, 471; id. F. 2, 147; Luc. 4, 61; 5, 543; 5, 705; 8, 183; 10, 289; Stat. S. 3, 2, 45; id. Th. 7, 6; Manil. 4, 644: Boream, Prop. 2 (3), 26, 51; Claud. Epigr. 9, 3.
    1. B. Meton.
      1. 1. The north: Boreae finitimum latus, Hor. C. 3, 24, 38.
      2. 2. Personified, the son of the river-god Strymon, and father of Calais and Zetes by Orithyia, daughter of Erectheus, king of Attica, Ov. M. 6, 682; 6, 711 sq.; Prop. 2, 26, 51 (3, 22, 31).
  2. II. Derivv.
    1. A. bŏrī̆us or bŏrē̆us = βόρειος, pertaining to the north wind, northern: sub axe boreo, Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 41; so Isid. Orig. 3, 32, 1 Lind. N. cr.; 3, 36; 13, 5, 5: frigus, Prisc. Perieg. 271; 315; 789.
      Bŏrīon, ii, n., = Βόρειοϝ: promonturium, Βόρειον ἄκπον, in Cyrenaica, Mel. 1, 7, 5; Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 28.
    2. B. bŏrĕālis, e, northern (rare; perh. only in Avienus): flamina, the north winds, Avien. Phaen. Arat. 951; id. Perieg. 84 and 292.

bŏrĕōtis, ĭdis, adj. f., = βορεῶτις, northern; acc. plur. boreotidas, Prisc. Perieg. 577.

bŏrīa, ae, f., = βόρεια (northern), a kind of jasper, Plin. 37, 8, 37, § 116.

Bŏrīon, v. boreas, II. A.

†† bōrith = [??], a plant purifying like soap, soapwort (herbe savonnieère, Jarchi Malach. 3, 2; cf. Ges. and Robinson’s Heb. Lex. under [??]), Vulg. Jer. 2, 22, and Mal. 3, 2.

borras, v boreas init.

borrio (bur-), īre, 4, v. n., to swarm: in stipite formicarum nidificia borriebant, App. M. 8, p. 211, 30.

Bŏrysthĕnes, is, m., = Βορυσθένης,

  1. I. a large but gently-flowing river in Sarmatia, which empties into the Black Sea, now the Dnieper, Mel. 2, 1, 6; 2, 7, 2; Curt. 6, 2, 13; Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 82 sq.; Gell. 9, 4, 6.
  2. II. Derivv.
    1. A. Bŏrysthĕnĭus, a, um, adj., pertaining to the Borysthenes: amnis, poet. circumlocution for Borysthenes, Ov. P. 4, 10, 53.
    2. B. Bŏrysthĕnis, ĭdis, f., adj., = Βορυσθενίς, the same: ora, Calvus ap. Val. Prob. p. 1395 P.
      And subst.: Bŏry-sthĕnis, ĭdis, f., a town on the Borysthenes, previously called Olbia, a colony from Miletus, now Kudak, in the region of the present Oczakow, or of Nikolajew, Mel. 2, 1, 6 (here erroneously distinguished from Olbia).
    3. C. Bŏrysthĕnĭdae, ārum, m., the dwellers on or near the Borysthenes: hiberni, Prop. 2, 7, 18.
    4. D. Bŏrysthĕ-nītae, ārum, = Βορυσθενῖται, the same, Macr. S. 1, 11, 33.