Beroe
1. A Trojan woman, married to Doryclus, one of the companions of Aeneas. Iris assumed the appearance of Beroë when she persuaded the women to set fire to the ships of Aeneas on the coast of Sicily. (The Aeneid by Virgil)
2. A daughter of Adonis and Aphrodite or Oceanus and Tethys. She was the eponym of the Phoenician town of Beirut. Poseidon competed with Dionysus for her hand in marriage. (Nonnus, Dionysiaca xli. 155.)
2. There are two other mythical personages of this name, concerning whom nothing of interest is related. (The Georgics By Virgil iv. 341.)
From Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and MythologyFrom The Georgics By Virgil
Even from her chamber in the river-deeps,
His mother heard: around her spun the nymphs
Milesian wool stained through with hyaline dye,
Drymo, Xantho, Ligea, Phyllodoce,
Their glossy locks o'er snowy shoulders shed,
Cydippe and Lycorias yellow-haired,
A maiden one, one newly learned even then
To bear Lucina's birth-pang. Clio, too,
And Beroe, sisters, ocean-children both,
Both zoned with gold and girt with dappled fell,
Ephyre and Opis, and from Asian meads
Deiopea, and, bow at length laid by,
Fleet-footed Arethusa. But in their midst
Fair Clymene was telling o'er the tale
Of Vulcan's idle vigilance and the stealth
Of Mars' sweet rapine, and from Chaos old
Counted the jostling love-joys of the Gods.
From The Aeneid by Virgil. Book V
The goddess, great in mischief, views their pains,
And in a woman's form her heav'nly limbs restrains.
In face and shape old Beroe she became,
Doryclus' wife, a venerable dame,
Once blest with riches, and a mother's name.
Thus chang'd, amidst the crying crowd she ran,
Mix'd with the matrons, and these words began:
"O wretched we, whom not the Grecian pow'r,
Nor flames, destroy'd, in Troy's unhappy hour!
O wretched we, reserv'd by cruel fate,
Beyond the ruins of the sinking state!
