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tending along the coaft of Greece, from the promontory Sunium of Attica to Theffaly,, and feparated from Boeotia by a narrow ftrait, called Euripus. From its length the ifland was formerly called Macris : afterwards Abantias, or Abantis, from the Abantes,a people originally of Thrace, called by Homer IJOEY Koμówles, from wearing their hair long behind, having in a battle experienced the inconvenience of wearing it long before. And from cutting their forelocks, they were called Curetes. Abantaus, the epi. thet, Ovid.

ABARATHA, a town of the island of
Taprobane, Ptolemy.
ABARBINA, a town of Hyrcania in
Afia, Ptolemy.

ABARIM, high mountains of steep afcent, feparating the country of the Ammonites and Moabites from the land of Canaan, where Mofes died. According to Jofephus, they ftood oppofite to the territory of Jericho, and were the laft ftation but one of the Iraelites coming from Egypt. Nebo and Pisgah were parts of these mountains.

ABARIMON, Pliny; a district lying along mount Iniaus. ABARINA, a territory of Africa, mentioned by Victor Uticenfis. ABARITANUM, a place in Africa Propria, Victor Uticenfis. In Pliny we have Abaritana arundo. ABARNUS, Stephanus; a town diftrict and promontory of Pariana, on the Hellefpout, the territory of Parium in Troas, Strabo. ABARRAZA, Antonine; a town of Syria, between Cyrrha and Edefla. ABAS. See ABA.

ABASCUS, Ptolemy, Arrian; a ri

ver of Afiatic Sarmatia, which rifing from mount Caucafus, falls into the Euxine, between Pityus to the eaft, and Nefis to the weft. ABASITIS, Strabo; a tract of Afiatic

Myfia, in which is fituate the city
Ancyra.

ABASSUS, Livy; a town of Phrygia the Greater, on the confines of the Toliftobogii, a people of Galatia

in Afia.

ABATHUBA, Ptolemy; a village of

Marmarica or Barca in Africa. ABATON, an erection at Rhodes, as

a fence to the trophy of Artemifia, queen of Halicarnaffus, Coos, &c. raised in memory of her victory over the Rhodians: or rather as a fcreen to conceal the difgrace of the Rhodians from the eyes of the world; the effacing or deftroying the trophy, being with them a point of religion.

ABATOS, an island in the lake Moeris, formerly famous for its flax and papyrus. It was the burial place of Ofiris, Lucan.

ABBA, a town of Africa Propria, near Carthage, Polybius, Livy. ABBORAS. See ABORRAS. ABDADA, a town of Galatia, Ptolemy.

ABDARA, fo called by Ptolemy, and Abdera, by Strabo, Mela, and Stephanus; a town of Bætica in Spain, a Phoenician colony, now called Adra, to the weft of Almeria, in the kingdom of Granada. ABDERA, e long, a maritime town of Thrace, not far from the mouth of the river Neffus, on the eaft side, Strabo. The foundation thereof, according to Herodotus, was attempted to be laid by Temefius the Clazomenian, but he was forced by the Thracians to quit the defign. The Teians undertook it, and fucceeded, fettling there, in order to avoid the infults of the Perfians. Hence the proverbial faying, Αβδηρα, καλὴ Τήιων ἀποικία, το people that prove unfociable; meaning, that we know where to meet with better treatment. Ephorus and Mela ufe Abdera, orum, plurally. The inhabitants were called Abderite and Abderitani: they were subject to a fpecies of frenzy, which gave rife to the adage, Abderitica mens. Abdera, however, produced feveral great men which caufes the greater wonder, that Juvenal fhould call it Vervecum patria: nothing being more oppofite than madness and ftupidity, the greatest wits being fubject to a species of phrenzy. Protagoras was a native of this place, expelled by the Athenians for his atheifin, and his books burnt; Anaxarchus alfo the philofopher. Here Democritus, called the Laughing Philofopher, refided,

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ABDERA in Spain. See ABDARA. ABDIABDA, Ptolemy, a town of Albania, fituate on the Cafpian Sea. ABDON, one of the Levitical cities, in the fouth of the tribe of Asher, Joshua.

ABDUA. See ADDUA.

ABE'A, Abaa, or Abia, a town on the bay of Meffenia in Peloponnefus,and one of the feven which Agamemnon promised Achilles, Homer. Alfo a town of Phocis, burnt by Xerxes's army, according to Herodotus and Strabo.

ABELA. See ABEL-KERAMIN.
ABEL-BETH - MAACHA, called alfo

Abel-maim, a town in the tribe of
Naphthali, in the north of Canaan,
towards Syria, where was a district
called Maacha, 1 Kings xv. 2 Chro-
nicles xvi.

ABELITES. See SINUS Avelites. ABEL-KERAMIM, or Vinearum, beyond Jordan in the country of the Ammonites, where Jephtha defeated the Ammonites, diftant feven miles from Philadelphia, abounding in vines, and hence the name; called alfo Abela.

ABELLA, a town of Campania, now Avella, near the river Clanius. The inhabitants are called Abellani, and faid to be a colony of Chalcidians. The Nux Avellana, called also Præ neftina, or the hazel-nut, takes its name from this town, according to Macrobius. ABELLINUM, now Avellino, a town of the Hirpini, a people of Apulia, diftant about a mile from the rivulet Sabbato, between Beneventum and Salernum. Pliny calls the inhabitants Abellinates, with the epithet Protropi, to distinguish them from the Abellinates Marfi. E. Long. 15. 20. Lat. 41.

ABEL-MEHOLA, the country of the prophet Elifha, fituate in Manaffeh, on this fide Jordan, between the valley of Jefreel and the village of Bethmaela, in the plains of Jordan, where the Midianites were defeated by Gideon, Judges. ABEL-MIZRAIM, Mofes; called alfo the threshing-floor of Atad; fignifying the lamentation of the Egyptians; for whom the Canaanites

took the company that mourned for Jacob; fuppofed to be near Hebron, Wells. ABEL-SATTIM or Sittim, a town in the plains of Moab, to the N. E. of the Dead Sea, not far from Jordan, where the Ifraelites committed fornication with the daughters of Moab, Mofes. So called, probably, from the great number of fittimtrees there. ABIA.

See ABEA.

ABIDA, Ptolemy; a town of CœleSyria, fituate to the S. of Damafcus. ABIETA or Abrieta, a town of the Jazyges Metanaftæ, Ptolemy; fuppofed to be Agria, a town of Hungary. E. Long. 20, Lat. 48°.

ABII SCYTHE, Homer, Curtius; taken by Strabo to denote the European Sarmatæ, bordering on the Thracians and Bastarnæ; who might be better known to Homer than the Scythians dwelling more to the north commended for their love of juftice, Curtius; and for their trampling on and defpifing earthly things, Ammian.

ABILA, e, or orum, Polybius; the fame with Abel-keramim. ABILA, orum, Jofephus; the fame with Abel Sattim, or Sittim.

ABILA LYSANIE, a town of CœleSyria, between Heliopolis and Damafcus, Ptolemy, Polybius, Pliny. Abilita,a citizen of Abila; the country, Abilene, Luke. ABILA. See ABYLA.

ABILENE. See ABILA LYSANIE. ABILUNUM, Ptolemy; a town of Ger

many, ftuate on the Danube. ABINNA, Ptolemy; a town in the inland parts of Sufiana. ABIOLICA, Antonine; according to Cluverius, is le Bullet, a town of the Franche Comté, fix miles from Ambrun, in the road to Befançon. ABISA, or Abifa, Ptolemy; a town of Arabia Felix.

ABISAMA, Ptolemy; a town of Arabia Felix, fituate in the territory of the Adramitæ. ABISSA. See ABISA.

ABLATA, Ptolemy; a town of Pontus, in the territory of Polemo

nium.

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the rivers Albanus and Cyrus, Ptolemy. ABNOBA, now Abenow, a long range of mountains in Germany, taking different names according to the different countries they run through. As about the river Maine, called the Oden or Ottenwald: between Heffe and Franconia, the Speart, and about the duchy of Wirtemberg, where the Danube takes its rife, called the Baar. ABOBRICA, or Abobriga, a town in Gallicia, in the north-west of Spain, fuppofed to be Bayona. And in an old infcription called Aobriga. W. Long. 1923, Lat. 43° 30'. ABOсCIS, Pliny; Abuncis, Ptolemy; a town of Ethiopia, lying beyond Egypt. ABODIACUM, Ptolemy, or Abudiacum; now Fueen, a town of Germany, in the fouth-east of Suabia, on the Lech, near the borders of Bavaria and Tyrol.

ABOLLA, Stephanus; a town of Sicily; now either unknown, or extinct.

The

ABON, Abona, or Abonis, Antonine; a town and river of Albion. town, according to Camden, is Abington, and the river Abhon, or Avon. But by Antonine's Itinerary, the diftance is nine miles from the Venta Silurum, or Caer-Went: others therefore take the town to be Porfhut, at the mouth of the river Avon, over against Bristol. Abhon or Avon, in the Celtic language denotes a river. ABONITEICHOS, Ptolemy, a town of Paphlagonia, on the Euxine, between Teuthrania and Sinope. The birth place of the impoftor Alexander. See Lucian. Aboniteichita, the people, Stephanus.

ABOR, Chabor, or Haber, a district in

Affyria, on the river Gozan, bounding on Media, 2 Kings xvii. ABORIGINES, Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus, Livy, Virgil: a very ancient people in Latium; who are faid to have come with Saturn; and to have learned the ufe of letters from Evander, the Arcadian, Tacitus. The term is become appellative, to denote a people, whofe origin cannot be traced. The Greeks call fuch Auxtoves, a name the Athenians af

fected much. Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus affigns a three-fold etymology of the name Aborigines; one, from their giving origin to their pofterity, which feems to be confirmed by Virgil; a fecond from their roving, defultory life, as if called Aberrigines; and a third, from their inhabiting the mountains ; which alfo feems to be alluded to by Virgil.

ABORACA, a town of Afiatic Sarmatia, near the Euxine, Strabo. ABORRAS, Abboras, or Aburas, a large river of Mefopotamia, running, according to Ptolemy, from north to fouth out of mount Mafius, by the town of Anthemufia, into the Euphrates.

ABOS. See ABA.

ABOTIS, a town of Egypt, according to Stephanus. The inhabitants are called Abotida, id.

ABRAGANA, Ptolemy; a town of the Seres.

ABRANITIS. See AURANITIS. ABRAVANNUS, Ptolemy; the name of a promontory and river of Galloway in Scotland, fo called from the Celtic terms Aber, fignifying either the mouth of a river, or the confluence of two rivers, and Avon, a river..

ABRETA, the ancient name of Myfia, Pliny.

ABRETTENE, Strabo; Abrettine, Stephanus; a district of Mysia, in Asia. Hence the epithet Abrettenus, given Jupiter, Strabo; whofe prieft was Cleon, formerly at the head of a gang of robbers, and who received many and great favours at the hands of Antony; but afterwards went over to Auguftus, id. The people were called Abretteni; inhabiting the country between Ancyra of Phrygia, and the river Rhyndacus. ABRIETA. See ABIETA. ABRINCA. See OBRINGA. ABRINCATARUM OPPIDUM, the town of the Abrincata, or Abrincatui, now Avranches, in France, fituate on an eminence in the south west of Normandy, near the borders of Britanny, on the English Channel. W. Long. 19 10', Lat 48° 40′. ABROSTOLA, Ptolemy, Peutinger; a town of Phrygia Major. ABROTONUM, a town and harbour

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on the Mediterranean, in the district of Syrtis parva, in Africa, Strabo, Pliny: one of the three cities that went to form Tripoly. ABRYSTUM. See APRUSTUM. ABSARUM, a town of Cappadocia, on the Euxine, in the confines of Colchis, Pliny; on the river Abfarus. ABSARUS, a river of Colchis, called Apfarus by Pliny, and Apforrus by Ptolemy, falling into the Euxine, having there a cognominal citadel. ABSORUS, Apforus, Abfyrtis, Abfyrtides, Apfyrtides, Apfyrtis, and Abfyrtium, Strabo, Mela, Ptolemy; iflands in the Adriatic, in the gulf of Carnero; fo called from Abfyrtus, Medea's brother, there flain. They are either one island or two, feparated by a narrow channel, and joined by a bridge, and now called Cherfo, and Ofero.

ABSYNTHUS, a town of Thrace. See NUS.

ABSYRTIDES. See ABSORUS. ABSYRTIS, and Abfyptium. See AB

SORUS.

ABUDIACUM. See AвODIACUM. ABULA, Ptolemy; a town of the Baftitani, a people of Hifpania Tarra. conenis; a Carthaginian colony, ABUNCIS. See ABOCCIS. ABUNIA, Pliny; a town of Scythia, to the north of Colchis, fituate at mount Corax, which on the west joins to Caucafus. ABURAS. See ABORRAS. ABUS, Tacitus; a river of Britain, formed by the confluence of the Ure, the Derwent, Trent, &c. falling into the German Sea, between Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and forming the mouth of the Humber. Asus, a mountain. See ABA. ABUSINA, Antonine; a town of Vindelicia, now Abenberg, in the north of Bavaria, on the river Abens, which foon after falls into the Danube, about twelve miles to the fouth west of Ratisbon. E. Long. 11° 40', Lat. 48° 40'. ABYDO, CHis, Homer; a place on the Axius, in the district of Pæonia of Macedonia, Stephanus. ABYDOS, a town built by the Milefians in Afia, on the Hellefpont, where it is scarce a mile over, oppaste to Seftos on the European fide, Dionyfius Periegetes. Now

both called the Dardanelles; Abydos lies midway between Lampfacus and Ilium, famous for Xerxes's bridge, Herodotus, Virgil; and for the loves of Leander and Hero, Mufæus, Ovid; celebrated also for its oysters, Ennius, Virgil. The inhabitants were called Abydeni, Stephanus, Pliny; who worshipped a tone, faid to have dropt from heaven: a foft, effeminate people, given much to detraction; hence the proverb, ne temere Abydum, when we would caution against danger, Stephanus.

ABYDOS, Strabo, Pliny; an'inland town of Egypt, between Ptolemais and Diofpolis Parva,towards Syene, famous for the palace of Memnon, and the temple of Ofiris. A colony of Milefians, Stephanus. ABYLA, Ptolemy, Mela; one of Hercules's pillars, on the African fide, called by the Spaniards Sierra de las Monas, over against Calpe in Spain, the other pillar; fuppofed to have been formerly joined, but feparated by Hercules, and thus to have given entrance to the fea, now called the Mediterranean: the limits of the labours of Hercules, Pliny. ABYSTRUM.

See APRUSTUM. ACA, Ace, or Acon, a town of Pheninicia, on the Mediterranean, afterwards called Ptolemais, now Acre. E. Long. 36. Lat. 33. 35. ACABE, Ptolemy; a mountain of Acabe, Egypt, on the Red Sea.. Ptolemy, a fountain in Africa Propria, near the borders of Cyrenaica

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ACABENE, a diftrict of Mefopotamia on the Tigris, Ptolemy. ACABIS, Ptolemy; a town of Cyre

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fon, called Academus, and hence the appellation. Spon places it to the north of the city, from which Meurfius has proved it to be diftant fix ftadia. It was alfo called Ceramicus, as being a part of the Ceramicus, that lay without the city, there being another within the walls, according to Hefychius. It had a portico and grove.

ACADEMIA CICERONIS, the name of a villa of Cicero, fituate between the LacusAverni and Puteoli on the fea fhore; famous for a portico and grove, in imitation of the Academia near Athens; where Cicero wrote his Academics. After Cicero's death, there burft out warm fprings, good for the eyes, called Aqua Ciceronianæ.

ACADERA, Curtius; a town of the Hither India.

ACADRA, or Acathra, an island of the Sinæ, or Siamefe, as it is fuppofed, towards the north. Another of the fame name in Arabia Felix, Ptolemy. ACALANDRA, a town of Lucania on the other fide the Apennine, Strabo; now Salandra, in the Bafilicata, on the river Acalandrus. ACALANDRUS, a river, falling into the bay of Tarentum, not far from Metapontum, Pliny, Strabo: now Fiume di Rofeto.

ACALE, a town of Arabia Felix, Ptolemy.

ACAMANTIS, the ancient name of the ifland Cyprus, taken from one of its promontories, fituate to the west, called Acamas, Stephanus.-Teos,in Ionia, was thus alfo called, Anacreon; from Acamus, the founder, Herodotus.

ACAMAS, antis, Strabo, Ptolemy; the weft promontory of the island of Cyprus, from which it took its ancient name. Now Capo Pifanio, or Epifanio, where formerly was a town of the fame name; now a village, called Crufocco. ACAMPSIS, a river of Colchis, Ar

rian.

ACANNE, or Accane, a staple, or

mart, on the Red Sea, Stephanus. ACANTHINE, Ptolemy; an inland in the Arabian Gulf, next Daplinine. ACANTHOS, a town of Egypt, near Memphis, Pliny; now Bijalta. Also

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ACARASSUS, a town of Lycia, Stephanus.

ACARIA, a fountain in the territory of Corinth, where Iolas cut off the head of Eurystheus, Strabo." ACARMAN, or Carman, a city of Arabia Felix, Ptolemy. ACARNANIA, the first country of free Greece, or Greece Proper, bounded on the welt by the Sinus Ambracius, and feparated from Ætolia by the river Achelous on the east, and by the Sinus Ambracius from Epirus. The people are called Acarnanes, denoting perfons unshorn, other Etolians, to the east of the Achelous, being called Curetes, Homer; from being fhorn: the name comes from the fingular, Acarnan: according to Macrobius they reckoned but fix months to the year; and, according to Lucian, were noted for effeminacy and incontinence; hence the proverb, Porcellus Acarnanius. This country was famous for an excellent breed of horfes; fo that Anagunos in, is a proverbial faying for a thing excelent in its kind. It is now called la Carnia and il Defpotato.

ACARON, or Accaron, a town of Paleftine, called Ekron in Scripture. It was the boundary of the Philiftines to the north; ftood at fome distance from the fea, near Bethfemesh; was famous for the idol of Baalzebub; Accaronita, Joshua; the gentilitious name: ftill called Accaron.-Alfe the name of a village, called Gallim, Jerome; in the tribe of Judah.

ACATHRA. See ACADRA. ACATHARTOS, a large bay in the Arabian Gulf, towards Egypt, Stra

bo.

ACCABICUS MURUS, a town near

Hercules's

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