priest of the temple of Belus at Baby-

lon, in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus, wrote the History of Chaldea, which is often cited by the ancients, and of which Josephus gives some curious fragments. The Athenians, according to Pliny, caufed his statue, with a golden tongue, to be placed in their Gymnasium.

BERRÉ, a town of France, in the department of the Mouths of the Rhone, seated on a lake of the same name. It is remarkable for the quantity and goodness of the salt that is made there, but the air is very unwholesome. E. Long. 4. 32. N. Lat. 43. 32.