Beroë
(
Βερόη).
1.
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).
2.
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.).