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tracted from Atuacua, Cæfar; anciently a large and famous city of the Tungri, now a fmall and incon fiderable village, called Tongeren, in the bifboprick of Liege, to the northweft of the city of Liege, in the territory of Hafpengow, on the rivulet Jecker, that foon after falls into the Maefe. E. Long. 5° 22′, Lat. 5ɔo, 54'.

ADUAS. See ADDUA.

ADUATICI, Caefar; Atuatici, Dio; a people of Belgica, defcendents of the Cimbri and Teutoni, they were neighbours to the Nervii, Dio Caffius; and byCaefar's account thought to have been fituate between the Menapii, the Eburones, and Nervii; that is, on the borders of Flanders, and in a part of Brabant and Hainault.

AD VICTORIOLAS, Antonine; a place three miles from Modena, in the Via Aemilia.

ADULA, a mountain in Rhætia, or the country of the Grifons, part of the Alps, Ptolemy; in which are the fountains of the Rhine; now St. Godhards. The parts of which are, 1. Crifpaltberg, from which fprings the Fore Rhine. 2. The Vogelfberg, from which the Hinder Rhine flows. 3. Mount Furck, from which the Rhone rifes and runs throughFrance; and the Ticinus, or Telin, through Italy. 4. Mount Grimfel, where the Aar and Rufs having their fprings, run through Swifferland and fail into the Rhine. ADULE, or Adulis, a town of Egypt, built by fugitive flaves, diftant from its port on the Red Sea twenty stadia. Pliny calls the inhabitants AduEtae. The epithet is either AdulitaEus, as Monimentum Adulitanum, or the pompous infcription of the ftatue of Ptolemy Euergetes, published by Leo Allatius at Rome in 1631, and to be found in Spon and Thevenot; or Adulicus, as Adulicus Sinus, a part of the Red Sea. ADULLAM. See ADOLLAM. ADUNA, a river of Perfia, which rifes

in the Sufiana, and falls into the river Eulaeus, Pliny. ADURNI PORTUs, Notitia; a port of Britain, now Ederington, in the county of Sussex, Caniden.

AEA, a town of Colchis, on the Pha

fis, fifteen miles from the fea, Pliny. Alfo an island in the mouth of the Phafis. AEANTEIUM, the tomb of Ajax in Troas, near the Rhetean promontory, Strabo.

AEAEA, or Aeaee, the island of Circe, which, before the marshes were drained, was that which was called Promontorium Circeium, Virgil. See OGYCIA.

AEAPOLIS, a town of Colchis, but differently written, Ptolemy. AEAS, Scylax, a river of Epirus in Greece, called alfo Aous, Strabo; which rifing in mount Pindus, running with a north-weft courfe by Apollonia, falls into the Adriatic; famous for the defeat of king Philip of Macedonia by the Romans. The Apollonians praying aid of the Epidamnians, were answered; You have Aeas, or Ajax, apply to him, playing upon the name of the ri

ver.

AEAS, a mountain of Egypt, near the
Red Sea, Pliny, Ptolemy.
AEBUDE. See EBUDAE.
AEBURA, Livy, a town of Spain, in
Eftremadura, on the river Guadiana,
to the weft of Merida, now called
Talavera. W. Long. 7° 15′, Lat.
38° 40!.

AECAE, or Aecana, Itineraries; a town of the Hirpini in Italy,eighteen miles diftant from Equotuticum. The inhabitants Aecani. It is now called Troja, in the Capitanato of Naples. E. Long. 16 5', Lat. 41° 17'. AECULANUM, Ptolemy, Appian; a town of the Hirpini in Italy, at the foot of the Apennin, to the east of Abellinum, contracted Aeclanum, fituate between Beneventum and Tarentum. The inhabitants are called Aeculani by Pliny; and Aeclanenfes, in an ancient infcription, Gruter: the town is now called Fri. cento, Cluverius; forty three miles eaft of Naples. E. Long. 15° 38'? Lat. 41° 15

AEDEPSUM, or Aediffum, a town of Euboea, to the north of Chalcis, famous for its hot waters, called thofe of Hercules, Strabo, Pliny, Stephanus.

AEDES SACRA, Romans; the name for a future appropriated to the worthip of fome god, but unaugu rated,

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rated, or not confecrated by the augurs, A. Gellius. AEDESSA, Ptolemy; or Edeffa, Justin,

&c. a town of Macedonia, near Gordynia, it was the ancient refidence of the kings, before Philip, the fon of Amyntas, removed it to Pella, but continued to be the royal burying place; it was alfo called Aegae, or Aegaea. Aediffaeus the epithet, Livy. E. Long. 28° 14', Lat. 42° 18'.

AEDIPSUM See AEDEPSUM. AEDONIA, Scylax; or Aedonis Infula, Ptolemy; an island on the coast of Marmorica, over-against Paliurus. AEDUI, (ælar, Ptolemy, Dio, Mela; Edui, Strabo, Plutarch; Hedui, Pliny; a people of Gallia Celtica, in an alliance of an old standing with the Romans, Plutarch, Tacitus; of whom much and frequent mention is made. From infcriptions, the true writing is Aedui; fituate between the Dubis and the Araris, Strabo; a powerful people, Cæfar. Suppofed to have occupied the greater part of the dukedom of Burgundy.

AEGADES. See AEGATES. AEGAE, a town of Aeolia, in Afia Minor,called Aegaeae by Herodotus, lying to the north of Cyme. The inhabitants are called 'Ay, by Herodotus and Polybius; Ays by Xenophon; and Argeatae by Tací

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AEGAE, a maritime town of Cilicia,

called Aegaeae, Strabo; with a ftation or road for thips: whither Apollonius Tyanaeus went to study under Euxenes, the Pythagorean, after having before ftudied at Tarfus. It is now extinct.

ALGAE, a town of the island Euboea, mentioned by Homer. Hence Aegaeus a name of Neptune. ALGAE,or Aegaea,the name of Aedef fa, fo called from the following adventure; Caranus, the fut king of Macedonia, being ordered by the oracle to feek out a fettlement in Macedonia, under the conduct of a flock of goats, surprised the town of Acdela, during a thick fog and rainy weather, in following the goats, that fled from the rain; which goats ever after, in all his military expeditions, he caufed al

ways to precede his standard; and in memory of this he called Aedeffa Aegaea, and his people Aegeadae. And hence probably, in the prophet Daniel, the he-goat is the fymbol of the king of Macedon. AEGAE, a town of Achaia Propria, fituate on the river Crathis, mentioned by Homer.

AEGAEA, a town of Mauretania Caefarienfis, Ptolemy, in other respects unknown. Two other towns of this name are mentioned by Strabo, the one near mount Amanus in Syria, and the other in the territory of Laconica.

AEGAEUM MARE, now the Archipelago,a part of the Mediterranean,feparating Europe from Asia and Africa, wathing on the one hand Greece and Macedonia, on the other, Caria and Ionia. The origin of the name is greatly difputed. Feftus advances three opinions: one, that it is fo called from the many islands there. in, at a distance appearing like fo many goats : another, because Aegaea, queen of the Amazons perished in it: a third opinion is, becaufe Aegaeus, the father of Thefets threw himself headlong into it. Pliny is of opinion, that it was so called from a rock called Aex, refembling a goat, that fuddenly emerged out of the fea between Tenos and Chios: but Strabo fuppofes it to be fo called from Aegae, a town of Euboea: others again, from its boisterous fwelling waves, which the Dorians call 'Aiyer, or goats, from their skipping or frisking. And there are others who derive the name from the river Acgos Potamos.

AEGAGEES, a mountain of Afia, Nicander.

AEGALEUM, or Aegaleus, a mountain of Meffenia, Strabo. A mountain alfo of Attica, over-against Salamin, Herodot. Thucyd.

AEGARA, a town of Lydia, Ptolemy; otherwife unknown; unlefs it be Aegae, or Aegaeae of Aeolia. AEGATES, or Aegades, three illands near Sicily, called also Aegufae, overagainst the promontory of Lilybaeum; where the Romans, under Lutatius Catulus, put a period to the first Punic war.

AEGESTA,

AEGESTA, a town of Sicily, the fame with Acefta. The inhabitants were called Argeftaei, and Aegeftani. Its ruins are to be feen near a village called Barbara, in the vale of Ma

zara.

AEGESTANA AQUAE, hot baths, about a mile to the north of Aegesta. AEGESTANUM EMPORIUM, Strabo; Stefanorum Emporium, Ptolemy; fituate on the fea fhore, at the mouth of the Simois; now Caftel a Mar, Cluverius.

AEGETA, a town of Moefià Superior, Antonine.

AEGIAE, a hamlet of Laconica, Paufanias; fuppofed to be the 'Auylas igarines of Homer.

AEGIALEA, the first and original appellation of Peloponnefus, Apollo. dorus.

AEGIALEUS, Pliny; a mountain of Attica, written Aegaleos by Thucydides; fituate on the right, as you go from Oenoe to Acharnae. AEGIALI, orum, Strabo, Stephanus ; the ancient name of Sicyon, which fee: fo called from one of its ancient kings, Eufebius. AEGIALOS, Strabo; a tract of Paphlagonia, with a cognominal village, near the promontory Carambis, on the Euxine, mentioned by Homer; other copies, according to Strabo, read Cobialos. Another Aegialos, Stephanus ; a tract on the coaft, as the term denotes, lying between Sicyon and Buprafium, in Peloponnefus.

AEGIDA, Pliny; now Capo d'Iftria, the principal town in the north part of the territory of Iftria, fituate in a little island, joined to the land by a bridge. In an infcription, Gruter, it is called Aegidis Infula. E. Long. 14 20, Lat. 45° 50. It was afterwards called Juftinopolis, after the emperor Juftinus. Reinefius fufpects the infcription as being an imposture.

AIGILIA, or egyla,, an inland between Peloponnefus and Crete, Stephanus, Mela, Dionyf. Perieg. AEGILIENSES, Strabo; one of the Arbenian of, or boroughs, from Agilia, a borough of the tribe Antiochis, Stephanus.

AGILIPS, Strabo; a town of Acarmania; a place alfo in Epirus, Ho

mer; it is corruptly written Aegi. lops.

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AEGILIUM, faid to be a vicious reading for Igilium, which fee. AEGILODES, Pliny; a bay of Laconica.

AEGILOS, the Greek name of the island Capraria, which fee. AECIMURUS, Strabo ; Aegimorus, Piiny; an inland in the bay of Car. thage, about thirty miles diftant from that city, Livy; now the Ga. letta: this ifland being afterwards funk in the fea, two of its rocks remained above water, which were called Arae, and mentioned by Virgil, because the Romans and Carthagians entered into an agreement or league, to fettle their mutual boundaries at these rocks.

AEGINA, Strabo; now Engia,an island in the Saronic Bay, or Bay of Engia, twenty miles diftant from the Piraeeus, formerly vying with Athens for naval power, and at the fea-fight of Salamin difputing the palm of victory with the Athenians. It was the country and kingdom of Aeacus, who called it Aegina, from his mother's name, it being before called Oenopia, Ovid The inhabitants were called Aeginetae,and Aeginenfes. The Athenians made a decree to cut off the thumbs of all fuch as were fit for fea fervice. The Greeks had a common temple in Aegina. The foil was gleby underneath, but rocky on the furface; yet yielding plenty of barley. The Aeginetae applied to commerce,and were the first who coined money, called Νόμισμα 'Αγιναῖον. Hence Aegineticum aes, formerly in great repute. The inhabitants were called Myrmidones, or a nation of ants, from their great application to agriculture.

AEGINA, the name of a town of the ifland Aegina, fituate in the fouthweft part of it, Stephanus. AEGINETES, a river of Paphlagonia, with a hamlet of the fame name, Stephanus.'.

AEGINIUM, a town of Theffaly, to the

fouth-west of mount Pierius, Pliny; but Strabo places it bordering on Stymphaea.

AEGIRA, Polybius; a town of Achaia Propria, formerly called Hypereha, fituate

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Situate on fteep and inacceffible eminences, in that part of Peloponnefus, which is washed by the bay of Corinth, between Aegium and Sicyon; it faces Parnaffus, and the places on the oppofite fhore, and is diftant feven ftadia from the fea. The inhabitants were called Aegiratae, and alfo Aegaei, being a colony from Aegae. They had a dock, called alfo Aegira, from which to the town there were twelve stadia, Paufanias.

AEGIRA, the ancient name of the

ifland Lefbos, Pliny.

AEGIROESSA, a town of Aetolia, Herodotus.

AEGIRUM, a town of Lefbos, between

Methymna and Mitylene, Strabo. AEGIRUSA, or Aegisthena,a, or Aegifthena, orum, a city in the moun tainous part of Megaris, next Boeotia, to the north-eaft, built by the Megarians, Paufanias.

AEGISUS, or Aegisus, Aegypfus, or Aegyfus, a town of Moefia Inferior, Ovid; naturally ftrong, and recovered by the Romans from the Thracians, according to Ovid; and hence Aegiffos feems to be the true reading.

AEGITHALLUS, Diodorus Siculus; a promontory and citadel of Sicily, between Drepanum and the Emporium Aegiftanum, afterwards called Acellus; corruptly written Aegi tharfos, in Ptolemy; fituate near mount Eryx, and now called Capo di Santo Teodoro, Cluverius. AECITIUM, Thucydides; a town of Aetolia, whofe particular fcite is uncertain; but diftant from the fea about ten miles. AEGIUM, Polybius; a town of Achaia

Propria, five miles from the place where Helice ftood, and famous for the council of the Acheans, which ufually met there; uncertain whether from the dignity, or commo'dious fituation of the place. It was alfo famous for the worfhip of 'Oμayugits Zeus, Conventional Jupiter, and of Panachaan Ceres. The territory of Aegium was watered by two rivers, viz. the Phoenix and Meganitas. The epithet is Aegienfis. There is a coin in the cabinet of the king of Pruffia, with the infcription AIFI, and the figure of a tortoife, which

is the fymbol of Peloponnefus, and leaves no doubt as to the place where it was ftruck. AEGONES, Polybius; a people of the Gallia Cifpadana, towards Adria. AEGOS POTAMOS, Aegos Flumen, Nepos; Alyos #olamo, Diodorus Siculus, a river in the Thracian Cherfonefus, falling with a fouth-eaft course into the Hellefpont, to the north of Seftos; also a town, station, or road for fhips, at its mouth; and yet it is doubted which it is of all these ; where the Athenians, under Conon, through the fault of his collegue, Ifocrates, received fo fatal a blow from the Lacedemonians, under Lyfander, in a sea engagement, as coft them their liberty and their all. Here, according to Pliny, a large ftone was fhewn of a burnt colour, which Anaxagoras the Clazomenian foretold was to fall from the fun. AEGOSTHENA. See AEGIRUSA. AEGUSA, one of the islands of the Aegates, which fee.

AEGUSA. See AETHUSA.
AEGUSE, fo called from Aegufa, one
of the islands. See AEGATES.
AEGYLA. See AEGILIA.
AEGYPSUS, or Aegyfus. See AEGI-

SUS.

AEGYPTUS, now Egypt, by fome re

ferred to Africa, by others to Afia, and by others again made an intermediate part, called Mizraim in Hebrew, dually, to express the two general divifions of Egypt into Higher and Lower. It lies to the fouth of Palestine, with Arabia on the eaft, the defarts of Barca, Lybia, Numidia, and the kingdom of Nubia to the west, and on the north it is bounded by the Mediterranean, on the fouth by Ethiopia. Its name Aegyptus is by some supposed to be from aia, terra, and Coptos, a principal town of the Thebais. The ancients, according to Strabo, confined the name Egypt, to the parts watered and overflowed by the Nile, on each fide its banks. It is divided into the Higher and Lower, confidered with refpect to the courfe of the Nile. Ptolemy divides it into three parts; namely, Delta, Heptanomis, and Thebais. Egypt was famous for its fertility, owing to the overflowing of the Nile, Virgil, and

there

therefore called the public granary of the world. According to Proclus, in Timæus, it fometimes rained in the Lower Egypt, near the fea, but not in the Higher. The Egyptians were remarkable for cunning and address, hence the proverb, Δεινοὶ πλέκειν τὰς μηχανές Αιγύπλιο. They were allo called 'Axéopéget, from their earning their bread as porters, and п0opogor, from acts of the loweft drudgery, or works of mere labour and toil, for inftance compiling dictionaries; and hence the proverbial faying, concerning trouble fome and impertinent people, 0«ç du dgair' åv sò'ina

Asia. The Egyptians, according to Curtius, were a vainglorious, fickle, and inconftant people, fond of innovations, and extremely feditious and paffionate; which, Suetonius fays, made Caefar fcrupulous of reducing Egypt to a province; left a violent governor fhould give occafion to the native levity, and feditious difpofition of the people to break out into act. They were, however, generally ef teemed an ingenious and learned people.

AEGYS, a town of Laconica, Stephan. AEGYSUS. See AEGISUS. AELANA, Jofephus; or Elana; Aila, Strabo, the more ancient name, the Ailath, or Elath of Mofes; a town of Arabia Petraea, fituate on a bay of the Red Sea, called from it Aelanites, Ptolemy; Elanites, and Elaniticus, Pliny; the inhabitants are called Aelanitae..

ABLIA ADRIANA, the fame with Za

ma in Numidia, fo called from a colony of Adrian; as appears from an infcription in Gruter." ALLIA CAPITOLINA, or Capitolia, Jerufalem, fo called, because the emperor Adrian fettled a colony there, calling it Aelia, after his own name, with a prohibition for Jews, but a permillion for Chriftians to fettle: he adorned it with many public buildings, and with a temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, as appears from the epithet. It was not built on the very spot on which Jerufalem ftood, but near it. E. Long. 34°, Lat. 12° 12'.

ALLI PONS, one of the fortreffes near the wall or rampart, or, in the

words of the Notitia, through the line of the hither wall; built as is thought, by Adrian. Now Porteland, Camden, in Northumberland, between Newcastle and Morpeth. AELINUM PRÆTORIUM,appears, from coins found on the fpot, to have ftood near Adriani Forum, fo called from Aelius, Adrian's first name. AELIUS PONS, now il Ponte S. Angelo, a ftone bridge at Rome, over the Tyber, which leads to the Burgo and Vatican from the city, along Adrian's mole, built by the emperor Adrian. AEMATHIA

See EMATHIA. AEMILIA FOSSA, a trench or cut between Parma and Placentia, made by Aemilius Scaurus, which was navigable, executed to drain the marshes, Strabo.

AEMILIA VIA, a road laid out by Aemilius Lepidus, to join the Flaminia, from Placentia to Ariminum, Livy; which in latter ages, gave name to the circumjacent country. But Strabo fays, that it was carried on from Ariminum, where the Flaminia ended, to Bononia, and thence to Aquileia. There is another Via Aemilia laid out by Aemilius Scaurus, which carries through Pife and Luna, to Sabata, and thence to Dertona, Strabo. AEMILIANA CASTRA, Ptolemy; a town in Spain, near the fprings of the Guadiana, in the fouth-east of New Caftile.

AEMILIANI TROPEUM, a trophy raised of white stone by FabiusMaximus Aemilianus, after defeating the Gauls, at the confluence of the Ifere and Rhone,near the Cevennes, Strabo.

AEMILIUS PONS, called Sublicius, becaufe originally of wood, but afterwards of marble; a bridge across the Tyber at Rome, about fix hundred feet from mount Palatine. AEMINIUM, Pliny, Ptolemy; a town of Portugal, on the river Monda, now Mondego, fuppofed to be Coimbra. W. Long. 9° 5', Lat. 40°

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