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had received from the opposite party, Domitius, a Libya or Eurynome. He was a twin-brother of
man of noble rank in the town, and a friend of Agenor, and father of Aegyptus and Danaus. He
Caesar's. Thereupon the Intemelians took up arms, was believed to be the ancestral hero and national
and Caelius had to march to the town with some divinity of several eastern nations, from whence
cohorts, to put down the insurrection. (Cic. ad the legends about him were transplanted to Greece
Fam. viii. 15; comp. xvi. 22. )
and became mixed up with Greek myths. (Apol-
C. BELLIENUS, a distinguished Roman orator lod. ii. 1. $ 4; Diod. i. 28; Serv. ad Acn. i. 733. )
and jurist, who was prevented by the disorders 2. The father of Dido, who conquered Cyprus
which occurred in the time of Marius from attain and then gave it to Teucer. (Virg. Acn. i. 621;
ing the consulship. (Cic. Brut. 47. ) He is sup- Serv. ad Aen. i. 625, 646. )
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BELLUTUS, C. SICI'NIUS, was the leader speaks of her as the first in virtue and wisdom of
of the plebs in their secession to the Sacred Moun- the wives of Ptolemy, and relates that Pyrrhus
tain, B. c. 494, and was afterwards one of the first of Epeirus, when he was placed with Ptolemy as
tribunes of the plebs elected in that year. (Liv. ii. a hostage for Demetrius, courted her favour espe-
32, 33; Dionys. vi. 45, 70, 72, 82, 89. ) He was cially, and received in marriage Antigone, her
plebeian aedile in 492 (Dionys. vii. 14), and tri- daughter by her first husband Philip. Pyrrhus is
bune again in 491, when he distinguished himself also said to have given the name of - Berenicis," in
by his attacks upon Coriolanus, who was brought honour of her, to a city which he built in Epeirus.
tó trial in that year. (Dionys. vii. 33-39, 61. ) (Plut. Pyrrh. 4, 6. ) After her death her son
Asconius calls him (in Cornel. p. 76, ed. Orelli) Philadelphus instituted divine honours to her, and
L. Sicinius L. f. Bellutus.
Theocritus (Idyll. xvii. 34, &c. , 123) celebrates
It is most probable that his descendants, one of her beauty, virtue, and deification. See also
whom we are expressly told was tribune in B. c. Athen. v. pp. 202, d. , 203, a. ; Theoc. Idyll. xv.
449 (Liv. iii. 54), also bore the cognomen Bellutus; 106; and the pretty Epigram (55) of Calli-
but as they are not mentioned by this name in an- machus. It seems doubtful whether the Berenice,
cient writers, they are given under SICINIUS.
BEMA'RCHIUS (Bnuápxios), a Greek sophist
and rhetorician of Caesarcia in Cappadocia, who
lived in or shortly after the time of the emperor
Constantine, whose history he wrote in a work
consisting of ten books. He also wrote declama-
tions and various orations; but none of his works
have come down to us. (Suidas, s. v. Bnuápxios;
Liban. Orat. p. 24, &c. ed. Reiske. ) [L. S. ]
BENDIS (Bevors), a Thracian divinity in whom whose humane interference with her husband on
the moon was worshipped. Hesychius (s. v. diaor behalf of criminals is referred to by Aelian (V. H.
xov) says, that the poet Cratinus called this goddess xiv. 43), is the subject of the present article, or
Sinoyxos, either because she had to discharge two the wife of Ptolemy III. (Euergetes. ) See Peri-
duties, one towards heaven and the other towards zonius, ad Ael. 1. c.
the earth, or because she bore two lances, or lastly, 2. Daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus, became
because she had two lights, the one her own and the wife of Antiochus Theos, king of Syria, ac-
the other derived from the sun. In Greece she cording to the terms of the treaty between him and
was sometimes identified with Persephone, but Ptolemy, B. c. 249, which required him to divorce
more commonly with Artemis. (Proclus, Theolog. Laodice and marry the Egyptian princess, estab-
p. 353. ). From an expression of Aristophanes, lishing also the issue of the latter as his successors.
who in his comedy “The Lemnian Women” called on the death, however, of Ptolemy, B. c. 247,
her the meyáan Jeós (Phot. Lex. and Hesych. s. v. ), Antiochus put Berenice away and recalled Laodice,
it may be inferred, that she was worshipped in who notwithstanding, having no faith in his con-
Lemnos; and it was either from this island or from stancy, caused bim to be poisoned. Berenice fled
Thrace that her worship was introduced into At in alarm to Daphne with her son, where being be-
tica; for we know, that as early as the time of sieged they fell into the hands of Laodice's parti-
Plato the Bendideia were celebrated in Peiraeeus zans, and were murdered with all their Egyptian
every year on the twentieth of Thargelion. (He attendants, the forces of the Asiatic cities and of
sych. s. v. Bévols ; Plat. Rep. i. l; Proclus, ad Tim. Ptolemy Euergetes (brother of Berenice) arriving
p. 9; Xen. Hell. ii. 4. § 11; Strab. x. p. 471; only in time to avenge them. These events are
Liv. xxxviii. 41. )
[L. S. ] prophetically referred to by Daniel in the clearest
BERECY'NTHIA (Beperuvola), a surname of manner. (Polyb. Fragm. Hist. 54, v. 58, ad fin. ;
Cybele, which she derived either from mount Bere Athen. ii. p. 45, c. ; Just. xxvii. 1; Polyaen. viii.
cynthus, or from a fortified place of that name in 50 ; Appian, Syr. 65, p. 130 ; Dan. xi. 6, and Hie-
Phrygia, where she was particularly worshipped. ron. ad loc. )
Mount Berecynthus again derived its name from 3. Grand-daughter of Berenice, No. 1, and
Berecynthus, a priest of Cybele. (Callim. Hymn. daughter of Magas, who was first governor and
in Dian. 246 ; Serv. ad Aen. ix. 82, vi. 785; then king of Cyrene. Athenaeus (xv. p. 689, a. )
Strab. x. p. 472; Plut. de Flum. 10. ) [L. S. ) calls her, if we follow the common reading, “ Bere
BERENICE (Bepevikn), a Macedonic form of nice the Great," but perhaps » Máya should be
Pherenice (Φερενίκη).
substituted for of peydan. (Schweigh. ad Athen.
I. Egyptian Berenices.
1. c.
) She was betrothed by her father to Ptolemy
1. A daughter of Lagus by Antigone, niece Euergetes, as one of the terms of the peace
of Antipater, was married first to Philip, an between himself and his half-brother_Ptolemy
obscure Macedonian, and afterwards to Ptolemy 11. (Philadelphus), the father of Euergetes.
Soter (the reputed son of Lagus by Arsinoe),
who fell in love with her when she came to
Egypt in attendance on his bride Eurydice, An-
tipater's daughter. (Schol. ad Theoc. Idyll. xvii.
61 ; Paus. i. 6, 7. ) She had such influence
over her husband that she procured the succession
to the throne for her son Ptolemy Philadelphus, to
the exclusion of Eurydice's children,--and this,
too, in spite of the remonstrances of Demetrius of
Plaierus with the king. (Just. xvi. 2; Diog.
Laërt. v. 78; comp. Ael. V. H. ij. 17. ) Plutarch
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Magas died, however, before the treaty was exe-made priest and king of Comana in Pontus, or,
cuted, and his wife Arsinoë" (Just. xxvi. 3), to according to another account, in Cappadocia ; but,
prevent the marriage of Berenice with Ptolemy, six months after this, Auletes was restored to his
offered her, together with the kingdom, to De kingdom by the Romans under Gabinius, and
metrius, brother of Antigonus Gonatas. On his Archelaus and Berenice were slain, B. c. 55. (Liv.
arrival, howerer, at Cyrenc, Arsinoë fell in love Epit. 105 ; Dion Cass. xxxix. 55-58 ; Strab. xvii.
with him herself, and Berenice accordingly, whom p. 796, xii. p. 558; Hirt. de Bell. Aler. 66; Plut.
he had slighted, caused him to be murdered in the Ant. 3; comp. Cic. ad Fam. i. 1-7, ad Q. Fr.
very arins of her mother ; she then went to Egypt, ii, 2. )
and became the wife of Ptolemy. When her son,
II. Jeuish Berenices.
Ptolemy IV. (Philopator), came to the throne, B. C. 1. Daughter of Costobarus and Salome, sister of
221, he put her and his brother Magas to death, at Herod the Great, was married to Aristobulus, her
the instigation of his prime minister Sosibius, and first cousin. (ARISTOBULUS, No. 4. ) This prince,
against the remonstrances of Cleomenes III. of proud of bis descent through Mariamne from the
Sparta. The famous hair of Berenice, which she blood of the Maccabecs, is said by Josephus to
dedicated for her husband's safe return from his have taunted Berenice with her inferiority of birth;
Syrian expedition (see No. 2) in the temple of and her consequent complaints to Salome served to
Arsinoë at Zephyrium ('Appodíto Zepupitis), and increase that hostility of the latter to Aristobulus
which was said by the courtly Conon of Samos to which mainly caused his death. (Joseph. Ant. xviii.
have become a constellation, was celebrated by 5, 94, xvi. 1. & 2, 4. § 1, 7. $ 3; Bell. Jud. i. 23.
Callimachus in a poem, which, with the exception $ 1, 24. $ 3. ). After his execution, B. C. 6, Bere-
of a few lines, is lost. There is, however, a trans nice became the wife of Theudion, maternal uncle
lation of it by Catullus, which has been re-trans- to Antipater the eldest son of Herod the Great,-
lated into indifferent Greek verse by Salvini the Antipater having brought about the marriage with
Florentine. (Polyb. v. 36, xv. 25; Just. xxvi. 3, the view of conciliating Salome and disarming her
xxx. 1; Plut. Demetr. ad fin. , Cleom. 33; Catull. suspicions of himself. (Joseph. Ant. xvii. 1. § 1;
Ixvii. ;
Muret. ad loc. ; Hygin. Poët. Astron. ü. Bell. Jud. i. 28. § 1. ) Josephus does not mention
24 ; Thrige, Res Cyren. SS 59-61. ) Hyginus the death of Theudion, but it is probable that he
(l. c. ) speaks of Berenice as the daughter of Ptolemy suffered for his share in Antipater's plot against
II. and Arsinoë (No. 2, p. 366, b. ) ; but the ac- the life of Herod. (See p. 203, a] (Joseph. Ant.
count above given rests on far better authority. xvii. 4. & 2; Bell. Jud. i. 30. $ 5. )
And though Catullus, translating Callimachus, calls Berenice certainly appears to have been again
her the sister of her husband Euergetes, yet this a widow when she accompanied her mother to Rome
may merely mean that she was his cousin, or may with Archelaus, who went thither at the com-
also be explained from the custom of the queens of mencement of his reign to obtain from Augustus
the Ptolemies being called their sisters as a title of the ratification of his father's will. (Joseph. Ant.
honour; and thus in either way may we reconcile xvii. 9. § 3 ; Bell. Jud. ii. 2. & 1. ) At Rome she
Callimachus with Polybius and justin. (See Thrige, seems to have continued for the rest of her life,
Res Cyren. S 61; Droysen, Gesch. der Nachfolger enjoying the favour of Augustus and the friendship
Alerunders, Tabb. xiv. xv. )
of Antonia, wife of the elder Drusus. (ANTONIA,
4. Otherwise called Cleopatra, daughter of No. 6. ] Antonia's affection, indeed, for Berenice
Ptolemy IX. (Lathyrus), succeeded her father on exhibited itself even after the death of the latter,
the throne, B. c. 81, and married her first cousin, and during the reign of Tiberius, in offices of sub-
Alexander II. , son of Alexander I. , and grandson stantial kindness to her son Agrippa I. , whom she
of Ptolemy VIII. (Physcon), whom Sulla, then furnished with the means of discharging his debt
dictator, had sent to Egypt to take possession of to the treasury of the emperor. (Strab. xvi. p.
the kingdom. Nineteen days after her marriage 765 ; Joseph. Ant. xviii. 6. SS 1-6. )
she was murdered by her husband, and Appian 2. The eldest daughter of Agrippa I. , by his
tells us, that he was himself put to death by his wife Cypros, was espoused at a very early age to
subjects about the same time ; but this is doubtful. Marcus, son of Alexander the Alabarch ; but he
(Paus. i. 9; Appian, Bell. Civ. i. p. 414; but see died before the consummation of the marriage, and
Cic. de Leg. Agr. ii. 16; Appian, Mithr. p. 251. ) she then became the wife of her uncle, Herod,
5. Daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, and eldest king of Chalcis, by whom she had two sons.
sister of the famous Cleopatra (Strab. xii. p. 558), (Joseph. Ant. xviii. 5. & 4, xix. 5. § 1, 9. & 1, xx.
was placed on the throne by the Alexandrines 5. & 2, 7.
had received from the opposite party, Domitius, a Libya or Eurynome. He was a twin-brother of
man of noble rank in the town, and a friend of Agenor, and father of Aegyptus and Danaus. He
Caesar's. Thereupon the Intemelians took up arms, was believed to be the ancestral hero and national
and Caelius had to march to the town with some divinity of several eastern nations, from whence
cohorts, to put down the insurrection. (Cic. ad the legends about him were transplanted to Greece
Fam. viii. 15; comp. xvi. 22. )
and became mixed up with Greek myths. (Apol-
C. BELLIENUS, a distinguished Roman orator lod. ii. 1. $ 4; Diod. i. 28; Serv. ad Acn. i. 733. )
and jurist, who was prevented by the disorders 2. The father of Dido, who conquered Cyprus
which occurred in the time of Marius from attain and then gave it to Teucer. (Virg. Acn. i. 621;
ing the consulship. (Cic. Brut. 47. ) He is sup- Serv. ad Aen. i. 625, 646. )
(L. S. ]
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Akizens
He posted
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Fers de
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BELLUTUS, C. SICI'NIUS, was the leader speaks of her as the first in virtue and wisdom of
of the plebs in their secession to the Sacred Moun- the wives of Ptolemy, and relates that Pyrrhus
tain, B. c. 494, and was afterwards one of the first of Epeirus, when he was placed with Ptolemy as
tribunes of the plebs elected in that year. (Liv. ii. a hostage for Demetrius, courted her favour espe-
32, 33; Dionys. vi. 45, 70, 72, 82, 89. ) He was cially, and received in marriage Antigone, her
plebeian aedile in 492 (Dionys. vii. 14), and tri- daughter by her first husband Philip. Pyrrhus is
bune again in 491, when he distinguished himself also said to have given the name of - Berenicis," in
by his attacks upon Coriolanus, who was brought honour of her, to a city which he built in Epeirus.
tó trial in that year. (Dionys. vii. 33-39, 61. ) (Plut. Pyrrh. 4, 6. ) After her death her son
Asconius calls him (in Cornel. p. 76, ed. Orelli) Philadelphus instituted divine honours to her, and
L. Sicinius L. f. Bellutus.
Theocritus (Idyll. xvii. 34, &c. , 123) celebrates
It is most probable that his descendants, one of her beauty, virtue, and deification. See also
whom we are expressly told was tribune in B. c. Athen. v. pp. 202, d. , 203, a. ; Theoc. Idyll. xv.
449 (Liv. iii. 54), also bore the cognomen Bellutus; 106; and the pretty Epigram (55) of Calli-
but as they are not mentioned by this name in an- machus. It seems doubtful whether the Berenice,
cient writers, they are given under SICINIUS.
BEMA'RCHIUS (Bnuápxios), a Greek sophist
and rhetorician of Caesarcia in Cappadocia, who
lived in or shortly after the time of the emperor
Constantine, whose history he wrote in a work
consisting of ten books. He also wrote declama-
tions and various orations; but none of his works
have come down to us. (Suidas, s. v. Bnuápxios;
Liban. Orat. p. 24, &c. ed. Reiske. ) [L. S. ]
BENDIS (Bevors), a Thracian divinity in whom whose humane interference with her husband on
the moon was worshipped. Hesychius (s. v. diaor behalf of criminals is referred to by Aelian (V. H.
xov) says, that the poet Cratinus called this goddess xiv. 43), is the subject of the present article, or
Sinoyxos, either because she had to discharge two the wife of Ptolemy III. (Euergetes. ) See Peri-
duties, one towards heaven and the other towards zonius, ad Ael. 1. c.
the earth, or because she bore two lances, or lastly, 2. Daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus, became
because she had two lights, the one her own and the wife of Antiochus Theos, king of Syria, ac-
the other derived from the sun. In Greece she cording to the terms of the treaty between him and
was sometimes identified with Persephone, but Ptolemy, B. c. 249, which required him to divorce
more commonly with Artemis. (Proclus, Theolog. Laodice and marry the Egyptian princess, estab-
p. 353. ). From an expression of Aristophanes, lishing also the issue of the latter as his successors.
who in his comedy “The Lemnian Women” called on the death, however, of Ptolemy, B. c. 247,
her the meyáan Jeós (Phot. Lex. and Hesych. s. v. ), Antiochus put Berenice away and recalled Laodice,
it may be inferred, that she was worshipped in who notwithstanding, having no faith in his con-
Lemnos; and it was either from this island or from stancy, caused bim to be poisoned. Berenice fled
Thrace that her worship was introduced into At in alarm to Daphne with her son, where being be-
tica; for we know, that as early as the time of sieged they fell into the hands of Laodice's parti-
Plato the Bendideia were celebrated in Peiraeeus zans, and were murdered with all their Egyptian
every year on the twentieth of Thargelion. (He attendants, the forces of the Asiatic cities and of
sych. s. v. Bévols ; Plat. Rep. i. l; Proclus, ad Tim. Ptolemy Euergetes (brother of Berenice) arriving
p. 9; Xen. Hell. ii. 4. § 11; Strab. x. p. 471; only in time to avenge them. These events are
Liv. xxxviii. 41. )
[L. S. ] prophetically referred to by Daniel in the clearest
BERECY'NTHIA (Beperuvola), a surname of manner. (Polyb. Fragm. Hist. 54, v. 58, ad fin. ;
Cybele, which she derived either from mount Bere Athen. ii. p. 45, c. ; Just. xxvii. 1; Polyaen. viii.
cynthus, or from a fortified place of that name in 50 ; Appian, Syr. 65, p. 130 ; Dan. xi. 6, and Hie-
Phrygia, where she was particularly worshipped. ron. ad loc. )
Mount Berecynthus again derived its name from 3. Grand-daughter of Berenice, No. 1, and
Berecynthus, a priest of Cybele. (Callim. Hymn. daughter of Magas, who was first governor and
in Dian. 246 ; Serv. ad Aen. ix. 82, vi. 785; then king of Cyrene. Athenaeus (xv. p. 689, a. )
Strab. x. p. 472; Plut. de Flum. 10. ) [L. S. ) calls her, if we follow the common reading, “ Bere
BERENICE (Bepevikn), a Macedonic form of nice the Great," but perhaps » Máya should be
Pherenice (Φερενίκη).
substituted for of peydan. (Schweigh. ad Athen.
I. Egyptian Berenices.
1. c.
) She was betrothed by her father to Ptolemy
1. A daughter of Lagus by Antigone, niece Euergetes, as one of the terms of the peace
of Antipater, was married first to Philip, an between himself and his half-brother_Ptolemy
obscure Macedonian, and afterwards to Ptolemy 11. (Philadelphus), the father of Euergetes.
Soter (the reputed son of Lagus by Arsinoe),
who fell in love with her when she came to
Egypt in attendance on his bride Eurydice, An-
tipater's daughter. (Schol. ad Theoc. Idyll. xvii.
61 ; Paus. i. 6, 7. ) She had such influence
over her husband that she procured the succession
to the throne for her son Ptolemy Philadelphus, to
the exclusion of Eurydice's children,--and this,
too, in spite of the remonstrances of Demetrius of
Plaierus with the king. (Just. xvi. 2; Diog.
Laërt. v. 78; comp. Ael. V. H. ij. 17. ) Plutarch
BA
BEPEMY
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BERENICE.
483
BERENICE.
Magas died, however, before the treaty was exe-made priest and king of Comana in Pontus, or,
cuted, and his wife Arsinoë" (Just. xxvi. 3), to according to another account, in Cappadocia ; but,
prevent the marriage of Berenice with Ptolemy, six months after this, Auletes was restored to his
offered her, together with the kingdom, to De kingdom by the Romans under Gabinius, and
metrius, brother of Antigonus Gonatas. On his Archelaus and Berenice were slain, B. c. 55. (Liv.
arrival, howerer, at Cyrenc, Arsinoë fell in love Epit. 105 ; Dion Cass. xxxix. 55-58 ; Strab. xvii.
with him herself, and Berenice accordingly, whom p. 796, xii. p. 558; Hirt. de Bell. Aler. 66; Plut.
he had slighted, caused him to be murdered in the Ant. 3; comp. Cic. ad Fam. i. 1-7, ad Q. Fr.
very arins of her mother ; she then went to Egypt, ii, 2. )
and became the wife of Ptolemy. When her son,
II. Jeuish Berenices.
Ptolemy IV. (Philopator), came to the throne, B. C. 1. Daughter of Costobarus and Salome, sister of
221, he put her and his brother Magas to death, at Herod the Great, was married to Aristobulus, her
the instigation of his prime minister Sosibius, and first cousin. (ARISTOBULUS, No. 4. ) This prince,
against the remonstrances of Cleomenes III. of proud of bis descent through Mariamne from the
Sparta. The famous hair of Berenice, which she blood of the Maccabecs, is said by Josephus to
dedicated for her husband's safe return from his have taunted Berenice with her inferiority of birth;
Syrian expedition (see No. 2) in the temple of and her consequent complaints to Salome served to
Arsinoë at Zephyrium ('Appodíto Zepupitis), and increase that hostility of the latter to Aristobulus
which was said by the courtly Conon of Samos to which mainly caused his death. (Joseph. Ant. xviii.
have become a constellation, was celebrated by 5, 94, xvi. 1. & 2, 4. § 1, 7. $ 3; Bell. Jud. i. 23.
Callimachus in a poem, which, with the exception $ 1, 24. $ 3. ). After his execution, B. C. 6, Bere-
of a few lines, is lost. There is, however, a trans nice became the wife of Theudion, maternal uncle
lation of it by Catullus, which has been re-trans- to Antipater the eldest son of Herod the Great,-
lated into indifferent Greek verse by Salvini the Antipater having brought about the marriage with
Florentine. (Polyb. v. 36, xv. 25; Just. xxvi. 3, the view of conciliating Salome and disarming her
xxx. 1; Plut. Demetr. ad fin. , Cleom. 33; Catull. suspicions of himself. (Joseph. Ant. xvii. 1. § 1;
Ixvii. ;
Muret. ad loc. ; Hygin. Poët. Astron. ü. Bell. Jud. i. 28. § 1. ) Josephus does not mention
24 ; Thrige, Res Cyren. SS 59-61. ) Hyginus the death of Theudion, but it is probable that he
(l. c. ) speaks of Berenice as the daughter of Ptolemy suffered for his share in Antipater's plot against
II. and Arsinoë (No. 2, p. 366, b. ) ; but the ac- the life of Herod. (See p. 203, a] (Joseph. Ant.
count above given rests on far better authority. xvii. 4. & 2; Bell. Jud. i. 30. $ 5. )
And though Catullus, translating Callimachus, calls Berenice certainly appears to have been again
her the sister of her husband Euergetes, yet this a widow when she accompanied her mother to Rome
may merely mean that she was his cousin, or may with Archelaus, who went thither at the com-
also be explained from the custom of the queens of mencement of his reign to obtain from Augustus
the Ptolemies being called their sisters as a title of the ratification of his father's will. (Joseph. Ant.
honour; and thus in either way may we reconcile xvii. 9. § 3 ; Bell. Jud. ii. 2. & 1. ) At Rome she
Callimachus with Polybius and justin. (See Thrige, seems to have continued for the rest of her life,
Res Cyren. S 61; Droysen, Gesch. der Nachfolger enjoying the favour of Augustus and the friendship
Alerunders, Tabb. xiv. xv. )
of Antonia, wife of the elder Drusus. (ANTONIA,
4. Otherwise called Cleopatra, daughter of No. 6. ] Antonia's affection, indeed, for Berenice
Ptolemy IX. (Lathyrus), succeeded her father on exhibited itself even after the death of the latter,
the throne, B. c. 81, and married her first cousin, and during the reign of Tiberius, in offices of sub-
Alexander II. , son of Alexander I. , and grandson stantial kindness to her son Agrippa I. , whom she
of Ptolemy VIII. (Physcon), whom Sulla, then furnished with the means of discharging his debt
dictator, had sent to Egypt to take possession of to the treasury of the emperor. (Strab. xvi. p.
the kingdom. Nineteen days after her marriage 765 ; Joseph. Ant. xviii. 6. SS 1-6. )
she was murdered by her husband, and Appian 2. The eldest daughter of Agrippa I. , by his
tells us, that he was himself put to death by his wife Cypros, was espoused at a very early age to
subjects about the same time ; but this is doubtful. Marcus, son of Alexander the Alabarch ; but he
(Paus. i. 9; Appian, Bell. Civ. i. p. 414; but see died before the consummation of the marriage, and
Cic. de Leg. Agr. ii. 16; Appian, Mithr. p. 251. ) she then became the wife of her uncle, Herod,
5. Daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, and eldest king of Chalcis, by whom she had two sons.
sister of the famous Cleopatra (Strab. xii. p. 558), (Joseph. Ant. xviii. 5. & 4, xix. 5. § 1, 9. & 1, xx.
was placed on the throne by the Alexandrines 5. & 2, 7.
