enemies as they crowded into the defile, and showered missiles on
them from above. A thunderstorm, with hail and intense cold, increased
their confusion, and on Brennus himself being wounded they took to
flight, pursued by the Greeks all the way back to Thermopylae. Brennus
killed himself, "unable to endure the pain of his wounds," says Justin;
more probably determined not to return home defeated.

See Justin xxiv. 6; Diod. Sic. xxii. 11; Pausanias x. 19-23; L.
Contzen, _Die Wanderungen der Kelten_ (Leipzig, 1861).

BRENTANO, KLEMENS (1778-1842), German poet and novelist, was born at
Ehrenbreitstein on the 8th of September 1778. His sister was the
well-known Bettina von Arnim (q.v.), Goethe's correspondent. He studied
at Jena, and afterwards resided at Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin. In
1818, weary of his somewhat restless and unsettled life, he joined the
Roman Catholic Church and withdrew to the monastery of Dulmen where he
lived for some years in strict seclusion. The latter part of his life he
spent in Regensburg, Frankfort and Munich, actively engaged in Catholic
propaganda. He died at Aschaffenburg on the 28th of July 1842. Brentano,
whose early writings were published under the pseudonym Maria, belonged
to the Heidelberg group of German romantic writers, and his works are
marked by excess of fantastic imagery and by abrupt, bizarre modes of
expression. His first published writings were _Satiren und poetische
Spiele_ (1800), and a romance _Godwi_ (1801-1802); of his dramas the
best are _Ponce de Leon_ (1804), _Victoria_ (1817) and _Die Grundung
Prags_ (1815). On the whole his finest work is the collection of
_Romanzen vom Rosenkranz_ (published posthumously in 1852); his short
stories, and more especially the charming _Geschichte vom braven Kasperl
und dem schonen Annerl_ (1838), which has been translated into English,
are still popular. Brentano also assisted Ludwig Achim von Arnim, his
brother-in-law, in the collection of folk-songs forming _Des Knaben
Wunderhorn_ (1806-1808).

Brentano's collected works, edited by his brother Christian, appeared
at Frankfort in 9 vols. (1851-1855). Selections have been edited by
J.B. Diel (1873), M. Koch (1892), and J. Dohmke (1893). See J.B. Diel
and W. Kreiten, _Klemens Brentano_ (2 vols., 1877-1878), the
introduction to Koch's edition, and R. Steig, _A. von Arnim und K.
Brentano_ (1894).

BRENTANO, LUDWIG JOSEPH [called LUJO] (1844- ), German ec