Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Barium

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B - Banks, Bankers

Bantia - Baucĭdes

Barba , I. Greek

Barbarĭcus Sinus

Bassăra, Bassăris

Bassus , Aufidius

Baths and Bathing

Batrachomyomachia

Baucis - Beroea

Berōsus - Biton

Bitūmen - Bonus Eventus

Books and the Book Trade - Britomartis

Brixellum - Buttmann , Philipp Karl

Butyrum - Byzas

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Barium

A town of Apulia, on the Adriatic, noted for its fisheries, whence Horace calls it “fishy Barium” ( Sat. i. 5, 97). It is now Bari.

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

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