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Strabo alfo the name of a river, | ANEMURIUM, a promontory of Cili

Pliny; called Andrius, Strabo; which falls into the Scamander: cailed alfo Andricus, and Andricius. ANDRO, or Andropolis, the capital of the Nomos Andropolites, on the river Agathodaemon, or western branch of the Nile, to the fouth of Hermopolis Parva, Ptolemy. ANDROCALIS, a town of Ethiopia, beyond Egypt, Pliny.

ANDRONA, a town of Chalcidene, in Syria, to the fouth-east of Chalcis, Antonine.

ANDROPHAGI. See ANTHROPOPHA

GI.

ANDROPOLITES NOMOS,}

See AN

DRO.

ANDROS, an island in the Irish Sea, Pliny; called Hedros, Ptolemy; now Bardfey, diftant about a mile from the coaft of North Wales. ANDROS, Cicero, an ifland, one of the Cyclades, Strabo, Mela, Pliny; feparated from Euboea to the fouth by a ftrait, and by a narrower still, from the island Tenos: now called Andro; a fertile and well cultivated ifland, in compafs feventy miles. It had feveral names among the ancients; viz. Cauros, Lafia, Nonagria, Hydruffa, and Epagris. It had a fountain, which yearly, on the nones, or fifth of January, ran with a liquor of a vinous tafte, Pliny. ANDROSIA, a town of Galatia, Ptolemy; on the river Halys, below Claudiopolis: now Andres. ANEIANUM, a town of Italy, in the Venetian territory, Antonine: now Monte Agnano; fituate between Padua and Modena.

ANELON, ontis, a river near Colophon, in Ionia, remarkable for the coldnefs of its waters, Paufanias. ANEMO, a river of Italia Cispadana, Pliny; Animo, Peutinger; now Amone, or Armone, rifing near Orci, out of the Apennine, in the terri tory of Romandiola; and running through this laft, and the territory of the Pope, washes Faventia, and at length falls into the Adriatic, three miles to the south of the principal mouth of the Po.

ANEMORIA, a town of Phocis, Ho

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cia, where the continent approaches nearest to Crommyon, a promontory of Cyprus, Strabo; feparat ng Cilicia from Pamphylia, Mela. Alfo a town there, of the fame name, Pliny, Scylax, Ptolemy, Coins. ANETHUSA, a town of Libya, Stepha

nus.

ANGARIS, a mountain of Palestine, Pliny.

ANGE, a hamlet of Arabia Felix, Ptolemy.

ANGELLAE, a city of Hifpania Baetica, fituate between Corduba and Seville, Antonine.

ANGILI. See ANGLI. ANGITES, a river of Thrace, which runs into the Strymon, Herodo

tus.

ANGITIAE LUCUs, Virgil; who in room of Lucus, ufes Nemus for the fake of the verse; fituate on the west fide of the Lacus Fucinus. The inhabitants are called Lucenfes, Piiny. Angitia was fifter of Medea, who taught antidotes against poifon and ferpents, Sil. Italicus. But Servius on Virgil fays, that the inhabitants called Medea by this name for the fame reafon. The town is now called Luco.

ANGITULA, a river and town of Ca

labria, Antonine. Now Roccha d Angitola.

ANGLI, Tacitus; a people of Germany beyond the Elbe; called Suevi Angili, Ptolemy; because a branch

of the Suevi. ANGRIVARII, Tacitus; a people of Germany, fituate between the Wefer and the Ems, and eastward reaching beyond the Wefer, as far as the Cherufci, on which fide they raifed a rampart, Tacitus; to the fouth having the Tubantes on the Ems, and on the Wefer, where it bends to the foreft Bacemis, the Dulgibini; to the weft the Ems and the confines of the Bructeri; and to the north the territory of the Angrivarii, lay between the Chamavi and Anfibarii. Ptolemy places them between the Cauchi and Suevi, or Catti. Suppofed now to contain a part of the county of Schaumburg, the half of the bishoprick or principality of Minden, to the fouth, the greatest part of the bishoprick

bishoprick of Ofnabrug, the north S part of the county of Teclenburg, and a part of the county of Ravenf berg. A trace of the name of the people still remains in the appellation Engern, a fmall town in the county of Ravensberg.

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ANGULUM, Antonine; Angolos, Pto-
lemy; a town of the Veftini, a people
of Abruzzo Ultra; fituate between
the mouth of the Aternus and Or-
tona, ten miles from the former,
and eleven from the latter, Anto-
nine; a proof that it was at no great
distance from the fea. The inhabi-
tants were called Angulani, Pliny.
ANIANA, a town of Mefopotamia,
Ptolemy.

ANICIUM. See ANITIUM.
ANIEN. See ANIO.

ANIGRUS, Ovid; Aniger, Vibius Se-
quefter; a river of Theffaly. Hence
Anigriades Nymphae, Strabo, Paufa-
nias. The lame with the Minyeius.
ANIM, the name of a city, Jofhua.
3 ANIMO. See ANEMO.

ANINA, a city of India extra Gangem.
Ptolemy.

ANINACHA, a town of India intra
Gangem, Ptolemy.

ANIO, enis, Cicero, Horace, Priscian;
Anien, Statius; now il Teverone; a
river of Italy, which falling into the
Tyber, three miles to the north of
Rome, not far from Antemnae, and
rifing in a mountain near Treba;
Pliny, runs through the country of
the Aequiculi, or Aequi, afterwards
feparates the Latins from the Sa-
bines; but nearer its mouth, or con.
fluence, it has the Sabines on each
fide. It forms three beautiful lakes
in its course, Pliny; In the terri-
tory of Tibur it falls from a great
height, and there forms a very ra
pid cataract; hence the epithet
Praeceps, and hence the fteam cauf
ed by its fall, Horace: Anienus the
epithet formed from it, Virgil, Pro.
pertius: Anienus is alfo the god of
the river, Propertius; Statius.
Avio, an aqueduct from the river
Anio, called Vetus, to distinguish it
from the Novus, begun by Cali-
gula, and completed by Claudius,
Frontinus.

ANISUS. See ANASUS.

ANITHA, a town of Arabia Petraea,
Ptolemy.

ANITIUM, or Anicium, called alfo P.-
dium, now le Puy, a town of Lan-
guedoc, capital of the Vellauni,
Caefar; now le Velay; fituate on a
mountain near the Loire. E. Long.
3° 50', Lat. 45°.

ANITORGIS, a town of Hifpania
Tarraconenfis, where a battle was
fought between the Scipios and
Afdrubal, Livy.

ANNAMATIA, a town of Lower Pan-
nonia, Itinerary, Peutinger.

ANNIA VIA, near the Flaminia in Tuscany, made out only by infcriptions, Gruter. Onuphrius imagines, that from an inscription on a marble extant, it either joined the Flaminia or began from it.

ANNIBI, mountains of the Seres, Pto-
lemy. Alfo a people called Annibi.
from these mountains, to the fouth
of the Anthropophagi.

ANOEGATH, a town of Libya Interior,
Pliny, Ptolemy.

ANOLUS, a city of Lydia, Stepha

nus.

ANONIUM, a town of Infubria, Ptolemy now Non, or Nun, a hamlet in the duchy of Milan, on a lake of the fame name, twenty-eight miles to the north of the city of Milan. ANOPOEA, Or Anopaca, Herodotus ; a mountain and hamlet on the river Afepus, in the territory of Melia, in Caria.

ANOPOLIS. See ARADEN.

ANSANCTI VALLIS. See AMPSANCTI. ANSIBARII, or Anfivarii, Tacitus; a people of Germany, in the neighbourhood of the Chauci, but on which hand does not appear. Cluverius affigns to them half the bishoprick of Minden, to the north the county of Diepholt, the greatest part of the county of Hoye on the left of the Wefer, and a fmall diftrict commonly called Steding. ANTACITES, a river of Sarmatia Afiatica, falling into the Palus Maeotis, yielding fith, called Antacei, which make a fine pickle, Athenaeus. ANTAEOPOLIS, a town of the Nomos Antaeopolites, in the Thebais, on the eaft fide of the Nile, Ptolemy, Pliny, Stephanus. It takes its name from the fabulous Antaeus, who is faid to have been vanquished by Hercules, Juvenal, Diodorus, Lucan. ANTANDROS, a town of Myfia, on the

the fea-coaft, at the foot of mount Alexandrea, a part of mount Ida, Strabo, Ptolemy: it was a town of the Leleges, Strabo; anciently called Edonis, then Cimmeris, Piny, Stephanus. It takes its name from Antandros, a general of the Aeoli ans: it is now called S. Dimitri, Sophianus.

ANTARADUS, Antonine, Peutinger;

a town of Seleucis in Syria, not far from the fea, on the right or north fide of the river Eleutherus; oppofite to the island Aradus, and hence the name. Now in ruins. ANTECUIA. See ANTEQUIA. ANTELIA, a city of Armenia Minor, Ptolemy. ANTEMATUNUM.

NUM.

See ANDOMADU

ANTEMNA, Livy; or Antemnae, arum,
Strabo, Virgil; a city of the Sabines,
very near Rome, on this fide the
Anio; hence the name, Ante Amnem,
Varro more ancient than Rome,
Cato; no traces of it now remain.
The people were called Antemnates,
Livy.
ANTEQUIA, or Antecuia, Ptolemy, a
city of the Autrigones, in Tarra-
conenfis now S. Andero, in Bifcay.
W. Long. 4° 32', Lat. 43° 20'.
ANTES. See VENEDI.
ANTHEDON, a town of Judea, not

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far from the fea, Pliny, Ptolemy, Jofephus; near Gaza, Stephanus : it was rebuilt by Herod, and called Agrippias, or Agrippeum, Jofephus; and yet after all continued to be called by its old name.

ANTHEDON, the laft town of the feacoaft of Boeotia, on the Euripus, Homer, Strabo; with a harbour, Dicaearchus, Strabo. Also a feaport town of Argolis, on the Saronic bay, Pliny; called Portus Arthenienfis, Ptolemy.

ANTHEIA, the ancient name of Tralles, a city of Lydia, from the great plenty of flowers that grew about it, Stephanus. Alfo a town of Meffenia, one of the feven, which Agamemnon promifed Achilles, with his daughter, Homer.

ANTHELA, a town of Theffaly, near Thermopylae, Herodotus; alfo a hamlet on the Afopus, in Trachinia, a diftrict of Theffaly, id. ANTHEMIS, a name of the island Samos, Strabo,

ANTHEMUS, untis, a town and diftrict of Macedonia, Herodotus, Thucydides, Pliny, Stephanus, Aefchines, near Therma, Pliny. The inhabitants are called Anthemuntii, Harpocration. Anthemus, a town in the north of Mefopotamia, called alfo Anthemufia, and Anthemufium, in a diftrict called Anthemufia, next Armenia, and thus to the north, Strabo.

ANTHEMUS, untis, and Anthemufia, ancient names of Samos, Pliny, Strabo.

ANTHENA, a town of the district of Cynuria, in Arcadia, Thucydides. ANTHINAE, an island near Ephefus, Pliny. ANTHROPOPHAGI, Mela; Androphagi, Herodotus; a name given a people of Sarmatia Europea, from their ferocity of difpofition; Ammian says, that they lived on buman flesh; and the only Sarmatians who did fo,Herodotus; to the north of the Agathyrfi. There were allo fuch cannibals in Afia, in the north parts of Serica, Ptolemy; and in Africa, in Libya Interior, on the Atlantic, Agathemerus; as alfo in Ethiopia beyond Egypt, Ptolemy. ANTHYLLA, Herodotus; Antylla, A. thenaeus; a town of Egypt, to the fouth-east of, and not far from Alexandria, the revenues of which went to the pin-money of the queen: of Perfia, when Egypt was in the hands of Perfians, id.

ANTIANA,Peutinger; Antianae, Anto nine, a town of Pannonia Inferior fituate between the Drave and th Danube.

ANTIATIUM ROSTRA, a temple i the Forum at Rome, with a pulpi or tribunal, from which publi fpeakers declaimed: fo called be caufe adorned with the Roftra, o beaks of the hips of the Antiate. Livy, Florus.

ANTIBACCHI INSULA, an ifland i the Red Sea, Ptolemy. ANTIBOLE, Ptolemy; the fixth mout of the Ganges, reckoning from th weft, as if opposite to the rest. ANTICASIUS, a mountain of Syria Strabo; to the fouth of Antioch and weft of the river Orontes, whic wathes its foot, Ammian. ANTICAUCASUS, Strabo; a mountai of Seleucia.

ANTICETA

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ANTICETA, ariver running from eaft | to weft, with one mouth, into the Palus Macotis, and with another into the Euxine, a little to the east of the Bofporus Cimmerius, and thus forming an ifland, Strabo, Dionyfius Periegetes: called alfo Anticitus, and Atticitus, Strabo.

ANTICHTHONES, Achilles Tatius; people in the fame femi-meridian, but in oppofite parallels, or the Antoeci; but now understood to be the fame with the Antipodes. ANTICIMOLIS, Strabo; Anticinolis, Mela, a town of Paphlagonia. ANTICIRRHA, Strabo; Anticyra, Paufanias, Stephanus, Livy; a town in Phocis, on the Corinthian bay, op polite to Cirrha, lying to the west on the fame bay. Another Anticirrha, or Anticyra, on the Sinus Maliacus, and near mount Oeta, where grew the best hellebore, Strabo, Stephanus ; but which Paufanias afcribes to the Anticyra of Phocis. Hence the adage, Naviget AnticyTam, Horace, ufed of a perfon of an unfound mind. The gentili itious name is Anticyreus, Paulanias. ANTICITUS. See ANTICETA. ANTICRAGUS, a mountain of Lycia, running weftward from mount Cragus, Strabo; which is the reafon of the name.

ASTICYRA. See ANTICIRRHA. ANTIGONEA, or Antigonia, a town of Bithynia, fo called from Antigonus, the fon of Philip, and afterwards called Nicaea, Strabo, Stephanus. Another of Epirus, to the north of the Montes Ceraunii, op. pofite to the city of Oricum, Polybius, Ptolemy. A third of Arcadia, namely Mantinea, fo called, in honour of king Antigonus, Plutarch, Paufanias. A fourth in Macedonia, in the territory of Mygdonia, Pliny, Ptolemy. A fifth in the territory of Chalcidice, in Macedonia, on the eaft fide of the Sinus Thermaicus, Livy. A fixth of Syria, built by Antigonus, not far from Antioch, on the Orontes, Stephanus; but foon after deftroyed by Seleucus, who removed the inhabitants to Seleucia, a town built by him, Diodorus Siculus. A feventh of Troas, called Alexandrea in Pliny's time.

ANTILIBANUS, a mountain of Coelefyria, which bounds it on the fouth, running parallel with Libanus: they both begin a little above the fea, Libanus near Tripolis, Antilibanus at Sidon; and both terminate near the mountains of Arabia, which run to the north of Damafcus, and the mountains of Traconitis, and there end in other mountains, Strabo. The Scripture making no diftinction between Libanus and Antilibanus, calls them by the common name Lebanon. ANTINOITES NOмos, lying on the eaft bank of the Nile; fo called from Antinoopolis; a denomination taken from Antinous, the favourite boy of Adrian,Ptolemy, Ammian: it was before called Befan, the name of an Egyptian god, Ammian: Helladius, an Egyptian writer, joins both names together, forming thus Befantinous. ANTIOCHEA, or Antiochia, called La

motis, a district of Ifaurica, in the Hither Afia, Ptolemy.

ANTIOCHENE, a diftrict of Syria, Me-
la, Pliny; the fame with SELEUCIS,
which fee.

ANTIOCHI SOLEN, Ptolemy; a town
of Egypt, on the Sinus Adulicus, a
bay of the Red Sea.
ANTIOCHIA, a town of Affyria, fitu-
ate between the rivers Tigris and
Tornadotus, Pliny. Another of
Caria, on the Meander, Strabo, Pto-
lemy, Pliny, Coin; called alfo Py-
thopolis, Athymbra, and Nyfja, or
Nyfa, Stephanus: but Strabo fays,
that Nyfa was near Tralles. A
third of Cilicia Trachea, on mount
Cragus, Ptolemy. A fourth, called
Epidaphnes, the capital of Syria, dif-
tinguished from cities of the fame
name, either by its fituation on the
Orontes, by which it was divided,
or by its proximity to Daphne, Pto-
lemy, Pliny. It is a four-fold city,
or confifting of four parts; each
diftinguished by its proper wall, and
all taken in within the compass of
one common wall, Strabo. Seleu.
cus Nicator was the principal foun.
der, who called it from his father's
name; the others were Callinicus,
and Antiochus Epiphanes. It was
not only the metropolis of Syria,
but the refidence of the governors,
Strabo and here the profeffors of

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the doctrine of Chrift came first to be called Chriftians, Luke; to that in the middle age it was called Theopolis, as alfo in the preamble of the hundred and ninth Novella. There are still extant many coins of this city. E. Long. 37° 20', Lat. 36°. A fifth Antiochia, a town of Co magene, on the Euphrates, Pliny. A fixth, of Lydia, Tralles fo called, Pliny. A feventh, of Margia na, Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy; on the river Margus, taking its name from Antiochus, fon of Seleucus, who rebuilt it, and walled it round, being before called Alexandria, from Alexander the founder, and furnamed Syria; in compafs feventy ftadia; whither Oredes carried the Romans, after the defeat of Craffus, Pliny. An eighth, in Mefopotania, on the lake Calirrhoe, the old name of Edessa, Pliny. A ninth Antiochia, on the river Mygdonius, In Mefopotamia, fituate at the foot of mount Mafius, and is the fame with Nifibis, Strabo, Plutarch. It was the bulwark and frontier town of the Romans against the Parthians and Perfians, till given up to the Perfians, by Jovinian, by an ignominious peace, Ammian, Eutropius. A tenth Antiochia, was that fituate in the north of Pifidia, Luke, Ptolemy, Strabo: it was a Roman colony, with the appellation, Caearea, Pliny, Strabo, Coins. There is an Antiochia at mount Taurus, Ptolemy; but mentioned by no other author. ANTIOCHIANA, a district of Lycaonia, in the Hither Afia, Ptolemy. ANTIPATRIA, a town of Daretis, a district in Macedonia, Polybius, Livy. ANTIPATRIS, a town of Samaria,

built, or rather reduced from a hamlet to a town, by Herod, in memory of his father Antipater, Luke, Jofephus; it was before called Cha barzaba, fituate in a very beautiful plain, Jofephus; diftant ten miles from Lydda, and twenty-fix from Caefarea; now in ruins. ANTIPHELLUS, a town of Lycia, on the fea, fo called from its oppofite fituation to Phellus, a more inland town, Ptolemy, Pliny; famous for very foft fpunges, found about its walls, Pliny now Antifello.

ANTIPHILIOPPIDUM, a town of the diftrict of Mareotis, in Egypt, to the fouth of the lake Marea, Ptolemy.

ANTIPHILI PORTUS, a port on the African fide of the Red Sea, Stra

bo

ANTIPHRA, Ptolemy; Antiphrae, Strabo; a hamlet of Marmarica, diftant a little way from the fea, Strabo. Antiphrae, Strabo; alfo an inland on the coast.

ANTIPODES, people on the surface of the earth, diametrically oppofite, or feet againft feet, as the term literally imports; deemed by Plutarch and many other ancients as abfurd; but affirmed by Strabo, from the fphericity of the earth, and the tendency of heavy bodies; which constitutes the centre, the lowest point, as Cleomedes juftly obferved. ANTIPOLIS, now Antibes, on the coast of Provence, a colony of the Massilians, near the river Verus, in Gallia Narbonenfis, Livy; three leagues to the weft of Nice. E. Long. 7o, Lat. 43° 40'.

ANTIPYRGUS, a port of Marmarica, on the Mediterranean, Ptolemy; Antipygus, Scylax.

ANTIQUARIA, a town of Lufitania, Antonine; now Antiquiera,in Spain. W. Long. 4° 40', Lat. 36° 40'. Suppofed to be the Singili of Pliny. ANTIRRHIUM, a promontory at the mouth of the Corinthian bay, where it is fcarce a mile broad, and where it feparates the Aetolians from the Peloponnefus; fo called from its oppofite fituation to Rhium in Feloponnefus, Pliny: both are now called the Dardanelles of Lepanto. ANTIRRHODUs, an ifland of Egypt, near Pharus, Strabo. ANTISCII, Achilles Tatius; are the oppofite fhadows thrown by people fituate in oppofite hemifpheres, the northern and the fouthern, feparated by the equator. ANTISIODORUM. See AUTESIODO

RUM.

ANTISSA, a town in Lefbos, Thucy

dides, Demofthenes; deftroyed by the Romans, and the inhabitants removed to Methymna, Livy, Pliny. ANTISTIANA, a town of the Hither Spain, between Barcelona and Tar. ragon, Antonine.

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