uncertain, according to Cluverius, as there are now no traces remaining of it.

ACRIPHIA. See ACRÆPHIA. ACRISIONE, a town of Peloponnefus, near Argos, Strabo. Hence the epithet Acrifionaus, Virgil. ACRITA, or Acritas, a promontory of Bithynia, near the Bosphorus Thracius, Strabo. Now il Capo Acria, not far from Chalcedon ACRITAS, a promontory of Messenia, near Methone, Ptolemy; running into the fea, and forming the be ginning of the bay of Meflene. Now called Capo di Gallo, between Me. thone to the weft, and Corone to the eaft, where the Sinus Coronæus begins.

ACROATHOUM, or Acrothoum, a town fituate on the top of mount Athos, where the inhabitants, according to Mela, were longer lived by half than in any other country: called by the modern Greeks, 'Ayiove, by the Italians, la Cima di Monte Santo. ACROCERAUNIA, or Montes Ceraunii, mountains running out into the fea; fo called from their being often thunder ftruck; feparating the Ionian fea from the Adriatic; where Illyria ends and Epirus begins, Horace. Now called Monti della Chi

mera.

ACROCERAUNIUM, a promontory of Epirus. So called because near the Montes Ceraunii, Ovid. ACROCORINTHUS, a high and steep hill, hanging over the city of Cotinth, which was taken within the walls, as an acropolis, or citadel. On its top stood a temple of Venus, and lower down, issued the fountain Pyrene, yielding not a plentiful, but a clear stream of water, Pliny. ACROLISSUS, Strabo; a citadel on hill, hanging over Liffus, a town of Macedonia, on the borders of Illyria, between Epidaurus and Aulona, at the mouth of the Drilo; not joined to, but at fome diẞance from, the town. ACRONIUS LACUS, Mela; a fmaller lake formed by the Rhine, foon af ter its fe out of the Alps, and af ter naffing the greater lake at Conftance. Called Venetus, and now the Budenzee, or lake of Conitance. ACROPOLIS, the citadel, and one of

the divifions of Athens; called Polis, because conftituting the first and original city; and the upper Polis, to diftinguish it from the lower, which was afterwards built round it in a large, open plain; the Acropolis standing on a rock or eminence in the heart of this plain; and hence its name, Paufanias. To the north it had a wall, built by the Pelafgi, and therefore called Pelafgie: and to the fouth a wall, by Cymon, the fon of Miltiades, out of the Perfian fpoils; many ages after the building of the north wall, Plutarch. It had nine gates, and was therefore called Enneapylon ; yet but one principal gate or entrance, the afcent to which was by a flight of steps of white marble, built by Pericles with great magnificence, Plutarch.

ACROTADUS, an island in the Perfan Gulf, Pliny.

ACROTHOUM. See ACROATHOUM. ACTA, a place near mount Athos, on the Egean tea, Thucydides.

ACTEA. See ACTE.

ACTANIA, an inland, according to Pliny, in the North Sea. It lies to the west of Holftein and Ditmarsch, not far from the mouth of the Eyder and Elbe, and now called Heylig

land.

ACTE, Altea, or Atthis, ancient names of Attica: Pliny extends it to the ifthmus of Corinth, fo as to include Megaris. Others make this last a distinct district, because Megara was always the rival and enemy of the Athenians. If fo, then Attica was bounded on the weft by Megara, on the north by Boeotia, feparated from it by high mountains, thro' which there was a difficult paffage, on the fouth by the Saronic bay, with the Egean fea on the east. It was cailed Acte from its maritime fituation, hence Attica and Attica, and the epithets Altaus and Atticus, Ovid. Hence alfo Aftias for Athe nienfis, Virgil.

ACTIUM, a town, in itself inconfider. able, fituate on the coaft of Acar, nania, famous for a temple of Apol lo, a fafe harbour, and an adjoining promon ory of the fame name, in the mouth the Sinus Ambracius, over against Nicopolis, on the other

of the bay: but afterwards became more famous on account of Auguftus' victory over Antony and Cleopatra, and for quinquennial games inftituted there, called Actia, or Ladi Aliari, Hence the epithet,

Actius, given to Apollo, Virgil. Alliaca ara, a computation of time from the battle of Actium. The promontory is now called Capo di Figals.

ACUBE, a fountain or lake in the territory of Syrtis, from which rifes a river that pours from the east into the Cinyphus, Ptolemy. ACUMINCUM. See ACIMINCUM. Acua, a town of Alia, in India intra Gangem, Ptolemy.

ACUSIO COLONIA, now Ancone, according to Holftenius, between Orange and Valence, near Montelimart, on the banks of the Rhone. ACUTE INSULE, illands near the Echinades. Strabo.

ACUTIA, a town of Iberia, Stephan.

The inhabitants Acutiani. ACYLINA, a town of Illyria, Stephan. The inhabitants Acylinei. ACYPHAS, a town of the Tetrapolis Dorica, Stephan.

ACYTTUS, an island near Cydonia

of Crete, Stephan.

ADACARA, or Idacara, a town of Arabia Deferta, on the Perfian Gulf, Ptolemy.

ADACHA, a town of the Palmyrene in Syria, Ptolemy. ADADA, Ptolemy, or Adadata, Stra bo; a town of Pifidia. Another of the Palmyrene in Syria, Ptolemy. ADADREMMON, a town near Jezreel, a valley of Sainarja, Zechariah. ABAM, or Adom, a town in the Peræa, or on the other fide the Jordan, over-against Jericho, where the Jordan began to be dried up, on the paffage of the Ifraelites, Joshua.

ADAMA, or Admah, one of the towns that were involved in the destruction of Sodom,' Moses.

ADAMAS, a river of India, next the Ganges, falling into the bay of Bengal, Ptolemy.

ADANA, oram, Pliny; a town of Cilicia, to the east of which runs the navigable river Sarus, from the mountains of Armenia. A city prighbouring and always at vari

ance with Tarfus, Dio Caffius. ADANI, orum, two islands, near Arabia Felix, in the Arabian Gulf, Ptolemy.

AD ANSAM, a town of Britain, Antonine. Ithancefter, in Effex, Camden.

AD AQUAS, a town of Mafia Superior, next below Trajan's bridge on the Danube, Antonine. Another in Dacia, fourteen miles to the east of Sarmizegethufa, the metropolis, Peutinger.

ADAR. See ADRAA.

ADARISTUS, a town of Macedonia, Ptolemy.

AD CABALLOS, Antonine, now Bagnacavallo, in the duchy of Ferrara. AD CALEM, Peutinger, or Callem, Antonine; now Cagli, in the duchy, and to the fouth-eaft of the city of Urbino, where the rivulet Baofo runs into the Cantiano, not far from the Apennine. E. Long. 14° 16', Lat. 43° 15'.

AD CASAS CESARIANAS, Antonine; now Caffano, a hamlet in the duchy, and feventeen miles to the northeast of the city of Milan, on the Adda. E. Long. 10° 12', Lat. 45°. . AD CENTESIMUM, Antonine; a place at that distance from Rome towards Adria.

AD CENTURIONES, Antonine; a town near the Pyrenees; the fame with Beutinger's Ad Centenarium, in the county of Rouiffillon, between Collioure to the north, and Rhodes to the fouth. Now Cervera.

ADDA, a town of Mefopotamia, Ptolemy.

AD DIANAM, a town of Numidia, Ptolemy.

ADDIDA, or Adida, a town of Judea, fituate on a mountain, not far from Jerufalem, Jofephus.

AD DUOS PONTES, Antonine; a place

of the Hither Spain, lying between Bracara and Afturica.

ADDUA, Adua, or Abdua, now Adda, a river rifing in the fouth-east of the country of the Grifons, near the confines of Tyrol, out of mount Braulio, in the Alps, and running through the Val Tellina, and the lake Como, and separating in part the duchy of Milan from the territory of the Venetians, it falls into the Po, about fix miles to the weft

of

of Cremona, yielding a good fort of fifh, Pliny; and called Aduas by Strabo.

AD DRACONES, Antonine; a place of Mauretania Cæfarienfis. Another in Armenia Major. ADDYMA, an inland town of Mauretania Cæfarienfis, Ptolemy. Now Ted Velez, according to fome. ADEBA, a town of the Illercaones in Spain, Ptolemy. Where now is fuppofed to ftand Ampofta, a hamlet, at the mouth of the Ebro, in Catalonia. By others thought to be Adebra, to the north of Dertofa, or Tortofa, as it is now called. ADEDI, a village of Arabia Felix, without the mouth of the Red Sea, Ptolemy.

ADELOCUM, Peutinger; which Camden fuppofes to be the true reading for Agelocum, Antonine; because he thinks it answers to the village called Iddleton.

AD ENSEM, Peutinger; a town of Umbria, farther fouth than Cagli, near the Apennine. ADER. See EDER. ADERCON, a diftrict of Iberia, bordering on Armenia Major, Stepha

nus.

ADESA, a river of Lycia, running by Choma, Pliny; an inland town, now called Com.

AD FINES, Antonine; a town of Swifferland, fuppofed to be the modern Pfin, in the north of the dif trict of Turgow, on the rivulet Thur, not far from the borders of Suabia, about half way between Conftance and Frauenfeld. So called, because when Cecinna, general of the emperor Vitellius, with the auxiliary Rhetians, defeated the Helvetii, the former extended their borders thus far, their territory ending here; and, in the time of the Romans, was the last town in this quarter, and of some repute. AD FRATRES, a place in Mauretania Cæfarienfis, Antonine.

AD GALLINAS. See VEIANTANUM. AD HERCULEM, Antonine; a Roman camp, in the Lower Pannonia, between Salva and Carpis on the Danube, near Buda.

ADIABA, or Adiabas, a river of Assy. ria, Ammian. Called Kargo by the Greeks.

ADIABENE, Strabo; a diftrict of AC fyria, fo called from the river Adiaba; Adiabeni, the people. ADIADA. See ADDIDA.

ADIENUM, a river of Colchis, Arrian.

AD INTERCISA, Scil. Saxa, Peutinger; a town in Umbria, nine miles to the north of Ad Callem, or Cagli. ADISATHROs, a mountain in India intra Gangem, nearer to the Indus. The people are called Adifathri, Ptolemy.

AD LABORES, Peutinger; in Pannonia Inferior, fuppofed to be fo called from the bloody battle fought there between Conftantine and Licinius. AD LAPIDEM, Antonine; a place in Britain; now Stoneham, Camden. AD LIPPOs, Antonine; a place in Hifpania Bætica, between Salamanca and Merida.

AD LULLIA, Itineraries; now Argoulles, in Picardy, according to Cluverius.

AD MALUM, a town of Liburnia, Antonine.

AD MARCIUM, Livy; a place not far from Lanuvium.

AD MARTIS, a place in Italy, between Narnia and Mevania, Antonine. Also another between Segufium and Brigantio in the Alps.

AD MAUROS, Notitia; a village of Noricum. Now Maur Kirchen, in Auftria, Lazius.

AD MEDERA, a colony of Numidia, Itinerary.

AD MORUM, a place in Spain, between Acci and Carthago Spartaria, or Nova, Antonine.

AD MUROS, Antonine; a town of Lower Pannonia, on the banks of the Danube. Now Sumerein, in the ifland Schut. E. Long. 17° 37', Lat. 48° 7'.

AD MURUM, Antonine; a town of Britain. Now Wall-town, Camden on the borders.

AD NOVAS, a town on the Danube, in Mafia Superior, Antonine. ADOLLAM, or Odellam, a town in the tribe of Judah, to the eaft of Eleutheropolis. David is faid to have hid himself in a cave near this town, Bible.

ADONIS, Adonius, Ptolemy, Lucian; a river of Phoenicia, rifing in mount

Lebanon,

Lebanon, and falling into the fea, after a north-west course, at Byblus; famous in fable, as a beauti. ful thepherd youth, Virgil; fon of Cynaras, king of the Cyprians, loved by Venus, flain by a boar, and turned into a river. Theocritus laments him dead in an idyllion, or rather ode, as did the women yearly, when in flood-time, the river rolled down a red earth, which tinged its waters, deemed to be his wound bleeding afresh. In the Phonician language Adan fignifies a willow, and Adon lord, with the fame radical letters. Hence 'Iraios Adwris, Salignus, and Kugis, or Kipis Adwvis, for Kugog. Adonidis horti, are gardens beautifully arranged, but more adapted for pleasure than profit. ADOREUS, Livy; a mountain of Galatia, from which the river Sangarius rises.

ADOPISSUS, a town of Lycaonia. Ptolemy.

AD PALATIUM,

Antonine;_now Palazzo, a hamlet between Trent and Verona.

AD PALUDES, a place in Arabia, Straho; called by Solinus Arabica PaLades.

AD PERTUSA, a town of Africa Propria, Itineraries.

AD PINUM, a place in Samnium, Antonine.

AD PONTEM, Antonine; a town in Britain, now Paunton, Camden, called Pons Elius in Lib. Notit. Also a place near Gades, in Spain, Id.

AB PONTEM MURI, Peutinger; now Pruck an der Muer, a hamlet in the north of Stiria, fixty miles fouthweft of Vienna.

AD PUBLICANOs, a place in Gallia
Narbonenfis, Antonine.
ADRA, an inland town of Liburnia,
Ptolemy.

ADRAA, Eufebius; Adar, Jerom; a town of Arabia Petræa in the Batanea, fix miles from Aftoroth, and twenty-five from Boftra. Another in Cœlefyria.

ADRABE CAMPI, Strabo; a tract in Lower Auftria, between the DaBube to the fouth, and Moravia to the north, near the river Mahr. ADRE. See HATRAM.

ADRAMITE, Ptolemy; a people of

Arábia Felix, fituate to the eaft of the Homerita, who occupied the fouth parts, extending from the Arabian Gulf.

ADRAMYTTIUM, Tacitus, or Adramytteos, Pliny, now Andramiti, formerly Pedafus, Pliny; a town of Mylia Major, at the foot of mount Ida, an Athenian colony, with a harbour and dock near the Caicus. Adramyttenus the epithet, as Adramyttenus Sinus, a part of the Egean Sea, on the coast of Myfia, Adramyttenus Convenus, feffions or affizes. The eighth in order of the nine Conventus Juridici of the province of Afia.

ADRANA, a river of Germany, Polybius; now the Eder, rifing on the borders of the county of Naffau, to the north-eaft of, and not far from Dillenburg, running through the landgraviate of Heffe, the county of Waldeck, by Fritzlar, and then again through the landgraviate, and, together with the Fulda, falling into the Wefer, to the south of, and not far from Caffel. ADRANE, a town of Thrace, not far from Berenice, Stephan. ADRANS, and Adrantis, a town of Pannonia Superior, Antonine. Now Dragemel, in Carniola, on the river

Save. ADRANUM, or Hadranum, now Aderno, a town of Sicily, built by the elder Dionyfius, at the foot of mount Ætna, Diodorus Siculus; four hundred years before Chrift. So called from the temple of Adranus, or Hadranus, a god much worshipped by the Sicilians; with a river of the fame name, Stephanus; now Fiume d'Aderno. The inhabitants are cailled Hadranitani, and Adranita. ADRAPSA, orum, or Hadrapfa, a town of Bactria, Strabo.

ADRAPSA. See DARAPSA.

ADRASTEA, or Adraftee Campus, a diftrict of Myfia Minor, fo called from a town of that name, fituate between Priapus and Parium, Strabo. So called from Adraftus, who first erected a temple to Nemefis, Califthenes, Strabo. ADRASTIA, Parium, fo called by Ho. mer, according to Pliny. ADRIA, or Hadria, the name of two towns in Italy: one in the country

of

of the Veneti, on the river Tartarus, between the Padus and the Athefis, called Atria by Pliny and Ptolemy, but Adrias by Strabo. Another on the river Vomanus in the territory of the Piceni, to which Antonine's Itinerary from Rome is directed, and the country of the anceftors of the emperor Adrian. From which of these the Adriatic Sea is denominated, is matter of doubt. A third opinion is, that it is fo called from Adrias, the fon of Jaon, of Italian origin, Euftathius in Dionyfium.

ADRIANE, Itinerary; a town of Cy rene, fituate between Teuchira and Berenice. It is alfo called Adriano polis, Peutinger. ADRIANI FORUM, a place of the Batavi, fo called in Antonine's Itinerary; now Voorburg, according to Cluverius; a hamlet of Holland, between Leyden and Delft.

ADRIANOPOLIS. See HADRIANOPOLIS, and ADRIANE. ADRIANUM, or Adriaticum mare, now the Gulf of Venice, a large bay in the Mediterranean, between Dal. matía, Sclavonia, Greece, and Italy. It is called by the Greeks, Afpizc Kone, and Adria by the Romans, as Arbiter Adria Notus, Hor. Cicero calls it Hadrianum Mare; Virgil has Hadriacas Undas. It is commonly called Mare Adriaticum, without an afpiration; but whether with it, is a dispute: if the appellation is from Hadria, the town of the Piceni, it must be written Hadriaticum, because the emperor's name, who thence derives his origin, is on coins and ftones Hadrianus: but if from the town in the territory of Venice, as the more ancient, and of which that of the Piceni is a colony, this will juftify the common appellation, Adriaticum. ADRIS, a river of India intra Gangem, Ptolemy.

ADRIS. See HYAROTIS.

ADRIUS, a mountain of Dalmatia, dividing it in the middle, Strabo. Others read Ardius, as anfwering to the Ardiai, a people placed there. ADROBICUM, Ptolemy; now Corunna in Gallicia in Spain. W. Long. 9o, Lat. 43°10'.

AD ROTAM, a town of Numidia, Iti

nerary; fituate between Lambefa and Čirta.

ADROTTA, a maritime town of Lycia, Stephanus. The inhabitants Adrotteni.

ADRU, a town of Arabia Petræa, Ptolemy.

ADRUMETUM, variously written, as Adryme, Aldrume, Hadrumetum, a Phoenician colony in Africa Propria, according to Salluft, eighteen miles diftant from the Leptis Minor. The inhabitants are called Adrumetani, Hirtius.

ADRYX, cis, a town in the territory of Syracufe, Stephanus. The epithet, Adrycinus, Id.

AD SAVA, a town of Mauretania Cæfarienfis, Itinerary.

ADSCENSUS SCORPIONIS, or Acrabbim, a district on the borders of Edom and Benjamin, on the southfide, called Acrabatena; because there was another on the borders of Ephraim and Benjamin on the north fide.

AD SEPTEM ARAS, a town of Lufi. tania, Itinerary.

AD SEX INSULAS, Antonine; the name of a place in Mauretania Tingitana, fituate between the mountain Abyla and the colony Rufadir. AD STATUAS, Itinerary; a place in Lower Pannonia, on the Danube. AD STATUAS COLOSSAS, Itinerary; a place in Pannonia Inferior, distant eighteen miles from Luffunium; probably Colocza, a city in Upper Hungary, on the Danube, to the north-west of the hainlet of Bath-monster. E. Long. 19° 45, Lat. 46° 50′.

AD STOMA, Peutinger; a place in Mafia Inferior, near where the Danube begins to divide into feveral channels, before it falls into the Euxine.

AD TROPA, Stephanus; a place in the country of the Bruttii, near Portus Herculis; now Tropea, near a promontory to the fouth-west of the bay of St. Euphemia, on the Tufcan Sea, in the Farther Calabria. Thought to be fo called from the victory of Sextus Pompeius, Holftenius. E. Long. 16° 6', Lat. 39° 5'.

ADUA. See ADDUA.

ADUACA, Antonine; or Atuaca, contracted