Bĕroea

I. a town in Macedonia, later called Irenopolis, north of the river Aliacmon, now Verria, Plin. 4, 10, 17, § 33; Liv. 44, 45, 2 and 5; 45, 29, 9; Cic. Pis. 36, 89. —Hence, Bĕroeaeus, i, m., a Berœan, Liv 23, 39, 3 (al. Boeotius); 42, 58, 7; and Beroeenses, ium, m., the Berœans, Plin. 5, 23, 19, § 82.