A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

506 BRIZO. BROTEAS.
placed in some relation to her: Artemis, who loved with Spiteiv, to fall asleep. The women of DTeloa
her, assumed her name and was worshipped under offered sacrifices to her in vessels of the shape of
it, and in the end the two divinities became com- boats, and the sacrifices consisted of various things;
pletely identified, as we see from the story which but fishes were never offered to her. Prayers were
makes Britomartis a daughter of Leto. (Callim. addressed to her that she might grant everything
Hymn. in Dian. 189, with the Schol.; Paus. ii. 30. that was good, but especially, that she might pro~ 3; Schol. ad Aristoph. Ran. 1402; Eurip. tect ships. (Athen. viii. p. 335; Eustath. ad Horn.
IpMg. Taur. 126; Aristoph. Ran. 1358; Virg. p. 1720; Hesych. s. v. Bpioeavrrs.) [L. S.]
Cir. 305.) The mythus of Britomartis is given BROCCHUS, a Roman cognomen, was origiby some of the authorities just referred to. nally applied to a person who had teeth standing
She was a daughter of Zeus and Carme, the out. It was the name of a family of the Furia
daughter of Eubulus. She was a nymph, took gens, and occurs on coins. In the one annexed, the
great delight in wandering about hunting, and was obverse is III via BROCCHI with the head of Ceres,
beloved by Artemis. Minos, who likewise loved and the reverse L. Fvit CN. F. with a sella curulis
her, pursued her for nine months, but she fled
from him and at last threw herself into the nets
which had been set by fishermen, or leaped from / / "
mount Dictynnaeum into the sea, where she became entangled in the nets, but was saved by 0 0.
Artemis, who now made her a goddess. She was
worshipped not only in Crete, but appeared to the i '.
inhabitants of Aegina, and was there called
Aphaea, whereas in Crete she received the surname Dictymna or Dictynna (from 61sCTvoi, a net; and fasces on each side of it. This Brocchus is
comp. Diod. v. 76). According to another tradi- not mentioned by ancient writers: he may have
tion, Britomartis was fond of solitude, and had been a triumvir of the mint or for the purchase of
vowed to live in perpetual maidenhood. From corn. Pighius assigns the surname of Brocchus to
Phoenicia (for this tradition calls her mother Carme, several persons of the Furia gens: but the only
a daughter of Phoenix) she went to Argos, to the Brocchi of this gens mentioned by ancient writers,
daughters of Erasinus, and thence to Cephallenia, as far as we are aware, are:
where she received divine honours from the in- 1. T. (FuRIus) BROCCHUS, the uncle of Q. Ligahabitants under the name of Laphria. From rius. (Cic. pro Lig. 4.)
Cephallenia she came to Crete, where she was 2. CN. FuRius BRoccHus, detected in adultery,
pursued by Minos; but she fled to the sea-coast, and grievously punished. (Val. Max. vi. 1. ~ 13.)
where fishermen concealed her under their nets, BROCCHUS, C. ANNAEUS, or ANNEIUS,
whence she derived the surname Dictynna. A a Roman senator, who was plundered by Symmasailor, Andromedes, carried her from Crete to chus, one of the Venerii, a new class of publicani
Aegina, and when, on landing there, he made an instituted by Verres. (Cic. Verr. iii. 40.)
attempt upon her chastity, she fled from his vessel BROCCHUS, ARME'NIUS, a proconsul in
into a grove, and disappeared in the sanctuary of the time of Domitian. (Plin. Ep. x. 71.)
Artemis. The Aeginetans now built a sanctury BROGITA'RUS, a Gallo-Grecian, a son-in-law
to her, and worshipped her as a goddess. (Anton. of king Deiotarus. He was an unworthy and
Lib. 40.) These wanderings of Britomartis un- nefarious person, who has become known only
questionably indicate the gradual diffusion of her through the fact, that P. Clodius, in his tribuneworship in the various maritime places of Greece ship, B. c. 58, sold to him, by a lex tribunicia, for
mentioned in the legend. Her connexion and a large sum of money, the office of high priest of
ultimate identification with Artemis had naturally the Magna Mater at Pessinus, and the title of
a modifying influence upon the notions entertained king. (Cic. pro Sest. 26, de IIarusp. Resp. 13,
of each of them. As Britomartis had to do with comp. ad Q. Fratr. ii. 9.) [L. S.)
fishermen and sailors, and was the protectress of BROME or BRO'MIE, one of the nymphs who
harbours and navigation generally, this feature was brought up Dionysus on mount Nysa. (Hygin.
transferred to Artemis also, as we see especially in Fab. 182; Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 15.) [L. S.]
the Arcadian Artemis; and the temples of the two BRO'MIUS (BpgOuos), a surname of Dionysus,
divinities, therefore, stood usually on the banks of which some explain by saying, that he was born
rivers or on the sea-coast. As, on the other hand, during a storm of thunder and lightning (Diod. iv.
Artemia was considered as the goddess of the 5; Dion Chrys. Or. 27); others derive it from
moon, Britomartis likewise appears in this light: the nymph Brome, or from the noise of the Bacher disappearance in the sea, and her identification chantic processions, whence the verb PpoJIedeo-Oai,
with the Aeginetan Aphaea, who was undoubtedly to rage like a Bacchant (Ov. Met. iv. 11; Orph.
a goddess of the moon, seem to contain sufficient Lith. xviii. 77.) There is also a mythical personage
proof of this, which is confirmed by the fact, that of this name. (Apollod. ii. 1. ~ 5.) [L. S.]
on some coins of the Roman empire Dictynna BRONTES. [CYCLOPES.]
appears with the crescent. Lastly, Britomartis was BRONTINUS (Bpov'rPvos), of Metapontum, a
like Artemis drawn into the mystic worship of Pythagorean philosopher, to whom, as well as to
Hecate, and even identified with her. (Eurip. Leon and Bathyllus, Alcmaeon dedicated his works.
Hippol. 141, with the Schol.; comp. Muller, Ae- According to some accounts, Brontinus married
ginet. p. 163, &c.; Hock, Kreta, ii. p. 158, &c.; Theano, the daughter of Pythagoras. (Diog. Laert.
Dict. of Ant. s. v. Aacruvvia.) [L. S.] viii. 83; Suidas, s. v. Oeaidc; Iambi. Vit. PytIh.
BRIZO (BpiN'), a prophetic goddess of the ~ 267.) lamblichus (Villoison, Anec. Gr. vol. ii.
island of Delos, who sent dreams and revealed p. 198) quotes a work of Brontinus.
their meaning to man. Her name is connected BRO'TEAS (Bporeas). 1. A son of Vulcan