o have
carried off the beautiful Oreithyia, a daughter of Erechtheus, king of
Athens, when he found her leading the dance at a festival, or gathering
flowers on the banks of the Ilissus or some other spot in the
neighbourhood of Athens. He had before wooed her in vain, and now
carried her off to Mount Haemus, where they lived as king and queen of
the winds, and had two sons, Zetes and Calais, and two daughters,
Cleopatra and Chione (Apollodorus iii. 15; Ovid, _Metam._ vi. 677). For
the loss of Oreithyia the Athenians in after times counted on Boreas's
friendliness, and were assured of it when he sent storms which wrecked
the Persian fleet at Athos and at Sepias (Herodotus vii. 189). For this
they erected to him a sanctuary or altar near the Ilissus, and held a
festival (Boreasmos) in his honour. Thurii also, which was a colony of
Athens, offered sacrifice to him as Euergetes every year, because he had
destroyed the hostile fleet of Dionysius the elder (Aelian, _Var. Hist._
xii. 61). In works of art Boreas was represented as bearded, powerful,
draped against cold, and winged. On the Tower of the Winds at Athens he
is figured holding a shell, such as is blown by Tritons. Boreas carrying
off Oreithyia is the subject of a beautiful bronze relief in the British
Museum, found in the island of Calymna. The same subject occurs
frequently on painted Greek vases.

BOREL, PETRUS, whose full name was PIERRE JOSEPH BOREL D'HAUTERIVE
(1809-1859), French writer, was born at Lyons on the 26th of June 1809.
His father had been ruined by taking part in the resistance offered by
the Lyonnese royalists against the Convention, and Petrus Borel was
educated in Paris to be an architect. He soon abandoned his profession
to become one of the most violent partisans of the Romantic movement.
His extravagant sentiments were illustrated in various volumes:
_Rhapsodies_ (1832), poems; _Champavert, contes immoraux_ (1833);
_Madame Putiphar_ (1839), &c. His works did not rescue him from poverty,
but through the kindness of Theophile Gautier and Mme de Girardin he
obtained a small place in the civil service. He died at Mostaganem in
Algeria on the 14th of July 1859.

See Jules Claretie, _Petrus Borel, le Lycanthrope_ (1865); and Ch.
Asselineau, _Bibliographie romantique_ (1872).

BORELLI, GIOVANNI ALFONSO (1608-1679), Italian physiologist and
physicist, was born at Naples on the 28th of January 1608. He was
appointed professor of mat