BELIO, in Ancient Geography, a river of Lusita-
nia, called otherwise Limaeas, Limias, Limias, and Le-
ibe, or the river of oblivion: the boundary of the expe-
dition of Decimus Brutus. The soldiers out of super-
stition refusing to cross, he snatched an ensign out of
the hands of the bearer, and passed over, by which his
army was encouraged to follow (Livy.) He was the
first Roman who ever proceeded so far, and ventured to
cross. The reason of the appellation according to
Strabo is, that in a military expedition a sedition arising
between the Celtici and Turduli, after crossing that river,
in which the general was slain, they remained dis-
persed there; and from this circumstance it came to
be called the river of Leibe or oblivion. Now called
El Lima, in Portugal, running westward into the At-
lantic, to the south of the Minho.