Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), B, Baucis, Beroë

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Beroë

（Βερόη).

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An old woman of Epidaurus, nurse to Semelé. Heré assumed her shape when she persuaded Semelé not to receive the visits of Zeus if he did not appear in the majesty of a god (Ovid, Met. iii. 278).

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The wife of Doryclus, whose form was assumed by Iris, at the instigation of Heré, when she advised the Trojan women to burn the fleet of Aeneas in Sicily (Verg. Aen. v.).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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