"Berytan" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1961, A Study of History, volume 7, page 272:",
          "text": "Justinian's board of commissioners was composed of representatives of four parties: Constantinopolitan officials, Constantinopolitan professors, Berytan professors [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Codex Bezae, page 335:",
          "text": "Having firmly nailed my colours to the Berytan mast, I have simply to offer my case as an ill-favoured thing [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, The Roman Coinage of Cyprus, page 151:",
          "text": "The coin of Berytus in the Salamis hoard likewise is paralleled by the Berytan coins found at Kourion.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Simone Paturel, “Roman Berytus”, in Jonathan M[ark] Hall, Jan Paul Crielaard, Benet Salway, editors, Baalbek-Heliopolis, the Bekaa, and Berytus from 100 BCE to 400 CE (Mnemosyne Supplements: History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity; 426), Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 145:",
          "text": "Numerous inscriptions relating to soldiers and officers have been found in Numidia and in Gaul [...]. The one example that relates to Berytan merchants comes from Puteoli in Italy.",
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        "Alternative form of Berytian"
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  "word": "Berytan"
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          "ref": "1854, F[élicien] de Saulcy, chapter I, in Edward de Warren, editor, Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands; […], new (2nd) edition, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 13:",
          "text": "It is scarcely possible to attribute to it any other use but that of a basilica, a large public hall, where the Phœnician merchants were in the habit of congregating, probably for commercial transactions. It may have been the Exchange of the Berytans.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting, page 240:",
          "text": "Moreover, the Berytans were fervent worshippers of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus [...]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, John D. Grainger, Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300:",
          "text": "The Tyrians and the Sareptans had clearly formed themselves into some sort of social-cum-religious clubs, just as had the Berytans [...]",
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          "ref": "1961, A Study of History, volume 7, page 272:",
          "text": "Justinian's board of commissioners was composed of representatives of four parties: Constantinopolitan officials, Constantinopolitan professors, Berytan professors [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Codex Bezae, page 335:",
          "text": "Having firmly nailed my colours to the Berytan mast, I have simply to offer my case as an ill-favoured thing [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, The Roman Coinage of Cyprus, page 151:",
          "text": "The coin of Berytus in the Salamis hoard likewise is paralleled by the Berytan coins found at Kourion.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Simone Paturel, “Roman Berytus”, in Jonathan M[ark] Hall, Jan Paul Crielaard, Benet Salway, editors, Baalbek-Heliopolis, the Bekaa, and Berytus from 100 BCE to 400 CE (Mnemosyne Supplements: History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity; 426), Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 145:",
          "text": "Numerous inscriptions relating to soldiers and officers have been found in Numidia and in Gaul [...]. The one example that relates to Berytan merchants comes from Puteoli in Italy.",
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        }
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          "ref": "1854, F[élicien] de Saulcy, chapter I, in Edward de Warren, editor, Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands; […], new (2nd) edition, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 13:",
          "text": "It is scarcely possible to attribute to it any other use but that of a basilica, a large public hall, where the Phœnician merchants were in the habit of congregating, probably for commercial transactions. It may have been the Exchange of the Berytans.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting, page 240:",
          "text": "Moreover, the Berytans were fervent worshippers of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, John D. Grainger, Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300:",
          "text": "The Tyrians and the Sareptans had clearly formed themselves into some sort of social-cum-religious clubs, just as had the Berytans [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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