BO'REAS, in Grecian mythology, the son of Astrmus and Aurora, and usually worshipped as the god of the north wind. There are few of the minor Grecian divinities of whom so strange and multi farious exploits are recorded as of Bo rers; and it is interesting to trace to its source the allegory of all his adventures and achievements, and thence to eluci date the causes of his deification. The assiduity, for instance, with which the worship of Boreas was cultivated at Athens proceeded from gratitude, the north wind having on one occasion de stroyed the fleet of the Persians when meditating the invasion of Athens. A similar cause induced the inhabitants of Megalopolis to consider Boreas as their guardian divinity, in whose honor they instituted an annual festival. With his usual partiality for mythological allu sion, Milton has given Boreas a place in his Paradise Lost:— Now from the north Of Norumbega, and the damned shore, Bursting their brazen dungeon, armed with ice And snow and hail, and stormy gust :Ind Ilan, Boreas and Cwcias and A rcestes loud, And 'Miasmas rend the woods and seas upturn.
Berens was usually represented with the feet of a. serpent, his wings dripping with golden dew-drops, and the train of his gamma sweeping along the ground.
BOR'OtiGH, this word originally de noted a fortified city or town ; hut at present it is given to, such town or vil lage as sends burgesses or representa lives to parliament. Boroughs are equally smell whether they be ineorponate or not ; there being several boroughs that are not incorporated, and, on the contrary, sev oral corporations that are not boroughs.