BORE´UM
BORE´UM,
BORI´ON (
Βόρειον ἄκρον).
1.
（
Ras Teyonas), a promontory on the W. coast of Cyrenaica, forming the E. headland of the Greater Syrtis, and the W. boundary of the Cyrenaic Pentapolis, being a little SW. of Hesperides or Berenice. (
Strab. xvii. p.836;
Plin. Nat. 5.4.;
Ptol. 4.4.3;
Stadiasm. p. 447, where the error of 700 for 70 is obvious; Barth,
Wanderungen, &c. p. 365). Adjacent to the promontory was a small port; but there was a much more considerable sea-port town of the same name, further S., which was inhabited by a great number of Jews, who are said to have ascribed their temple in this place to Solomon. Justinian converted the temple into a Christian church, compelled the Jews to embrace Christianity, and fortified the place, as an important post against the attacks of the barbarians (
Itin. Ant. p. 66; Tab. Peut. ;
Stadiasm. l.c.; Procop.
Aedif. 6.2).
The exact position of this southern Boreum is difficult to determine. (Barth,
l.c. SYRTES.）
2.
（
Pt. Pedro and
North Cape), the northern headland of the island of Taprobane (
Ceylon) opposite to the promontory of Cory, in India. (
Ptol. 7.4.7: Marc. Heracl. p. 26.) [
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