I.a people inhabiting Bebrycia, a province of Asia Minor, afterwards called Bithynia, Plin. 5, 30, 33, § 127; Val. Fl. 4, 315.—
II. Derivv.
A. Bē-brȳ^cĭa , ae, f., = Βεβρυκία, the province inhabited by the Bebrycians, afterwards Bithynia, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 5, 373; Val. Fl. 5, 502; y long in Avien. Perieg. 974.—
B. Bēbryx , ȳ^cis, m., a Bebrycian, Val. Fl. 4, 315; and, κατ̓ ἐξοχήν, an ancient king in Bebrycia, also called Amycus, who, being powerful in the contest with the cœ-stus, was accustomed to sacrifice foreigners whom he had vanquished, but was finally himself overcome by Pollux, and slain, Val. Fl. 4, 261 and 290: Bebryca (acc. Gr.), Stat. Achill. 1, 190.—
C. Bēbrȳ^cĭus , a, um. adj., pertaining to the province Bebrycia, of Bebrycia: “gens,” Verg. A. 5, 373: “regnum,” Val. Fl. 4, 99: “fretum,” id. 4, 220.—
2. Pertaining to King Bebryx: harena, upon which Pollux fought with Amycus, Stat. S. 4, 5, 28: “nemus,” in which Amycus lay in wait for foreigners, id. Th. 3, 352: “cruor,” the blood shed by him, Tert. Carm. Sod. 2.—Also pertaining to the Bithynian king Prusias: “hospes,” Sid. Carm. 2, 304.
