. elsina, was in ancient times an Etruscancity, and the capital of N. Etruria. It after-wards fell into the hands of the Boii, but it wascolonised by the Romans on the conquest ofthe Boii, 191, and its name of Felsina wasthen changed into Bononia (Liv. xxxvii. 57).It was one of the 12 most recent Latin colonies[see ARnnNUJi] and then obtained the fullfranchise. It fell into decay in the civil wars,but it was enlarged and adorned by Augustus,32.—2. (Boulogne) a town in the N. of GEKORiACUJr.—3. (Banostor?), a town ofPann
. elsina, was in ancient times an Etruscancity, and the capital of N. Etruria. It after-wards fell into the hands of the Boii, but it wascolonised by the Romans on the conquest ofthe Boii, 191, and its name of Felsina wasthen changed into Bononia (Liv. xxxvii. 57).It was one of the 12 most recent Latin colonies[see ARnnNUJi] and then obtained the fullfranchise. It fell into decay in the civil wars,but it was enlarged and adorned by Augustus,32.—2. (Boulogne) a town in the N. of GEKORiACUJr.—3. (Banostor?), a town ofPannonia on the Danube. Bonosus, a Spaniard by birth, served withdistinction under Aurelian, and usurped theimperial title in Gaul in the reign of was defeated and slain by Probus, 280. Bootes. [Arctubus.] Borbetomagus (Warms), also called Van-giones, at a later time Wormatia, a town ofthe Vangiones on the left bank of the Rhine inUpper Germany. Boreas (Bop/as or BopSr), the N. wind, ormore strictly the wind from the NNE., was, in BOSPORUS 169. Boreas. (From the monument ot Cyrrhestes at Athens mythology, a son of Astraeus and Eos, andbrother of Hesperus, Zephyrus, and Notus. Hodwelt in a cave of mount Haemus in carried off Orithyia, daughter of Erechtlieus,king of Attica, by whom he begot Zetes, Calais,and Cleopatra, wife of Phineus, who are there-fore called Boreades. (Hdt. vii. 18!); 16, 2.) Some have seen in this story the snatching away the more genial rain-cloud : others regard Orithyia as a Nereid whowas later identified with an Attic princess, andthink that the rape signifies the wind drivingthe waves, and that the horses of Boreas havethe same connexion. In the Persian war,Boreas showed his friendly disposition towards the Athenians by destroying the ships of thebarbarians. According to a Homeric tradition(II. xx. 223), Boreas begot 12 horses by themares of Erichthonius, which is commonly ex-plained as a figurative mode of e
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