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Berytus

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Berytus: see Beirut Beirut , Arab. Bayrut, Fr. Beyrouth, city (1996 est. pop. 1,200,000), W Lebanon, capital of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Lebanon Mts. Beirut is an important port and financial center with food processing industries.
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She also quoted from a lament in the "History" of Agathias, the first-century Greek poet and historian: "Do ye who pass me by/ Bewail my fate and shed a tear/ In honor of Berytus that is no more.
When the neighboring towns of Sidon and Tyre began to decline in the first millennium, Berytus, as it was then called, acquired more influence.
Cavafy's poetry echoes no School of Athens, indeed, but recalls instead the glories of the ancient school of Alexandria, reiterating the doctrines and practice of Callimachus and the Neoterics certainly, but even more the exquisite work of the epigrammatists of the city and of its literary satellites--Cos, Samos, Rhodes, Cyrene, Gadara, Berytus, Sicily, and Magna Graecia--throughout the eastern Mediterranean.
 
 
 
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