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ANTITAURUS, a mountain of Cappadocia, which, running out from the Taurus to the north-east, terminates in the inland parts, Strabo ; reaching to the Euphrates, Ptole. my; in which are many deep and narrow valleys or defiles, Strabo, Ptolemy.

ANTIVESTAEUM. See BELERIUM. ANTIUM, Livy; Antia, Dionyfius

Halicarnaffaeus; a city of the Volfci, Livy; fituate on the Tufcan Sea, yet without a harbour, because they had a neighbouring hamlet, called Ceno, with a harbour, Strabo. The Romans gained their firft reputation in naval affairs against the Antiates; part of whofe fhips they conveyed into the arsenal of Rome, and part they burnt, and with their beaks, or roftra, adorned the pulpit, erected in the Forum, thence called Roftra, Livy, Florus. Several colonies were fucceffively fent thither, Livy, Tacitus. The epithet is Antianus,Antienfis, Antiatinus, and Antias, atis; the people Antiates. Here ftood a famous temple of Fortune, Horace. Addifon fays, there were two Fortunae worthipped at Antium. The birth-place of Caligula and Nero, Sueton. But according to Pliny, the Ambiatinus Vicus was the birth-place of Caligula. See AMBIATINUS. It is now extinct, but the name ftill remains in the Capo d'Anzo.

ANTOECI, Achilles Tatius; are people on the earth, in the fame meridian, but in oppofite parallels, and equidiftant from the equator; and the fame with the Antichthones, Achilles Tatius.

ANTONA, Tacitus; a river of Britain, which Camden supposes to be a faulty reading for Avuona, or Aufona, (the Avon) which fee. ANTONACUM, Antonnacum, or Antun nacum, a town of the Treveri, Ammian; now Andernach, below Coblentz. E. Long. 7° 5', Lat. 50° 25.

ASTONIA, a citadel of Jerufalem, the origin of which we have in Jofe. phus, who fays, that Hyrcanus, the first high-priest of that name, built Baris near the temple, a houfe with turrets, where he generally refided. Herod afterwards made it stronger,

for the fecurity and defence of the temple, and in honour of Marc Antony, who then commanded in the east, called it Antonia. It was very extenfive, could accommodate a Ro man legion; from it there was a full view of the temple. ANTONINOPOLIS, a city of Mefopotamia, on the Tigris, built by Ántonine, Ammian.

ANTONNACUM. See ANTONACUM. ANTRO, Antren, onis, a town of Thef faly, on the Euripus, Strabo; purchafed by Philip of Macedon, Demofthenes; was formerly fubject to Protefilaus; from Antron to Thermopylae, the kingdom of Achilles extended. Ovos Agros, a hidden rock in the fea, a proverbial faying on matters of great importance. ANTROS, a fmali ifland in the mouth of the Garonne, Mela.

ANTUNNACUM. See ANTONACUM.
ANUBINGARA, a city of Taprobane,
Ptolemy.

ANUNEA. See HANUNEA.
ANUROGRAMMUM, a town of the
inland Taprobane, Ptolemy.
ANXA, a town of Calabria. See CAL-

LIPOLIS.

ANXANTIUM, a town of the Marfi, in Italy, faid to be Civita d'Antia z whence the people are called Anxantini, Pliny.

ANXANUM, a city of the Ferentani in Italy, Ptolemy; now Lanciano: the people Anxanenfes, Pliny. E. Long. 15° 25', Lat. 42° 20′. ANXUR, a city of the Volfci, Pliny, Livy; in Latium, called Tarracina, by the Greeks and Latins: now Terracina; fituate on an eminence, Livy, Horace, Sil. Italicus. Anxuras, a citizen of Anxur, Livy. And the epithet, Anxurus, a name of Jupiter, worshipped without a beard at Anxur, Virgil. Though others read Axurus, or Axyrus, without a razor. E. Long. 14° 5′, Lat. 41°

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ANZETA, a city of Armenia the greater, Ptolemy.

ANZITENE. See AZETENE.

AOBRIGA. See ABOBRICA. AONIA, a mountainous tract of Boeotia; an appellation, however, extended to the whole of it, Paufanias. The people are called Aones. The epithet is Aonius. The Mufes, Adnides.

AORNI, a town of Bactria, Arrian. AORNOS, a very high rock of India,

and hence the appellation, as exceeding the flight of any bird; at the foot of which runs the Indus; the rock was taken by Alexander, or rather abandoned by the enemy, Curtius, Arrian. Strabo places it near the fprings of the Indus. Alfo a place in Thefprotia, where oracusar answers were given, Pausanias: and a lake whofe vapour was deadly, Pliny: and alfo a lake near Tarteffus; and another between Puteoli and Baiae. See AVERNUS. AORSI, Strabo; a people of Sarmatia Afiatica, dwelling on the Tanais. AORUS, the ancient name of Eleutherae, an inland town of Crete, Stephanus.

Aous. See AEAS.

APABARTICE, or Apavartice, a town of Parthia, Ptolemy. APABARTICENE, or Apavarticene, a district of Parthia, fo called from Apabrtice, Ifidorus Characenus. APAESANTUS. See APESAS. APAESUS, a city of Troas, between Lampfacus and Parium, called alfo Paefus, Homer, Strabo.

APAMEA, or Apamia, a city of Bithy.

nia, formerly called Myrlea, from Myrlus, general of the Colophonians: deftroyed by Philip, father of Perfeus, and given to his ally Prufias, who re-built it, and called it Apamea, from the name of his queen Apama, Strabo: Stephanus fays, that Nicomedes Epiphanes, fon of Prufias, called it after his mother, and that it had its ancient name from Myrlea, an Amazon. The Romans led a colony thither, Strabo; called Colonia Apamena, Pliny, Appian. The gentilitious name is Apamaeus, and Apamenus, Trajan in a letter to Pliny. Another Apaméa, called Cibotos, of Phrygia, at fome diftance from the Meander, Agathodaemon; but by a coin of I

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coins vary in spelling Cibotos, fome having an omicron, and others an omega; which laft is approved by Salmafius, as denoting an ark, this city being the repofitory and magazine of all forts of commodities, and the greatest staple in Afia, next to Ephefus, Strabo: fituate on the Mariyas, which runs through the city, and afterwards into the Meander, Id. The name is from Apame, mother of Antiochus Soter, the founder, and the daughter of Artabazus, Id. The rife, or at leaft, the encrease of Apamea, was owing to the ruins of Celenae. The inhabitants are called Apamienfes, Tacitus. A third on the confines of Parthia and Media, furnamed Raphane, Strabo, Pliny. A fourth Apamea, a town of Mefene, an island in the Tigris, Pliny, Ammian; where a branch of the Euphrates, called the Royal River, falls into the Tigris, Ptolemy. A fifth in Mefopotamia, on the other fide the Euphrates, oppofite to Zeugma, on this fide, both founded by Seleucus, and joined by a bridge, from which the latter takes its name, Pliny, Ifidor. Characenus. A fixth Apamea alfo in Syria, below the confluence of the Orontes and Marfyas, a ftrong city, and fituate in a peninfula, formed by the Orontes and a lake; was a place of fuch plenty, that Seleucus, the founder of it, there maintained five hundred ele phants, calling it after Apama, his confort, Strabo. Apumia was alfo the ancient name of Pella, in the Decapolis.

APAMENE, the country round Apaméa, of Syria, Ptolemy. APAMENSIS CONVENTUS, the third Conventus Juridicus, or aflizes, held at Apaméa Cibotos, Pliny. APAMENUS LACUS, a lake near Apaméa of Syria, Strabo. APAMIA. See APAMEA. APARCTIAS, a wind blowing from the north, Pliny.

APARNI, Strabo; a branch of the Daae; called Parni, Ptolemy. APATE. See SIBY.

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was faid to have by guile killed the giants, by means of Hercules, Strabo; defolated in Pliny's time.

APAVARTICE. See APABARTICE. ES APAVARTICENE. See APABARTICENE APEAUROS, a mountain in Peloponnefus, Polybius.

APELIOTES, or Apheliotes, a wind
blowing from the fun, or eaft, Pliny.
APENESTAE, a town of Apulia, near
the promontory Garganus, Strabo;
unknown to others. Now Viefie,
E. Long. 17° 49', Lat. 41° 54'.
APENNINUS, now the Apennine, a
mountain, or ridge of mountains,
running thro' the middle of Italy,
from north-weft to fouth-east for
feven hundred miles, in the form of
a crefcent, Pliny; beginning at the
Alps in Liguria, or the Riviera di
Genoa, and terminating at the trait
of Messana, or at Reggio, and the
promontory Leucopetra, and fepa
rating, as by a back or ridge, the
Adriatic from the Tufcan, Sea,
Pliny, Strabo, Ptolemy, Polybius,
Vitruvius. This mountain, though
high, is greatly short of the height
of the Alps. Its name is Celtic, fig-
nifying a high mountain.

APERA, a town of Galatia, Antonine.
APERANTIA, a town of Aetolia, at
the foot of mount Pindus, Polybius,
Livy.

APERETHES, a town of Arcadia, Pau-
fanias.

APEROPIA, an inland on the coaft of
Argos, Paufanias.
APERRAE, Ptolemy; Apyrae, Pliny;
a town of Lycia, betweeen Patara
and the mouth of the river Limy.
rus. Now faid to be Phinica.
APESAS, or Apefus, Apefantus, Pliny;
Apaefantus, Plutarch; a mountain
of Peloponnefus, in the territory of
Argos, near the lake Lerna, Sta-
tius. From this mountain Jupiter
was called Apefantius, Stephanus.
APETUA, a town of Baetica, not far
from Corduba, Strabo.

APHACA, the name of a place in Sy-
ria, fituate between Heliopolis and
Byblus, near Lebanon, Zofimus
infamous for a temple of Venus,
called Aphacitis, near which was a
lake, round which fire ufually burst
forth, and its waters were fo heavy
that bodies floated on them. The
temple was destroyed by Conftan-

tine, as being a school of incontinence, Eufebius. The name is of Syriac origin, fignifying embraces. APHANNAE, an obfcure place in Sicily; hence the proverb, Ad Aphannas, concerning things obscure, Stephanus.

APHAR. See SAPHAR.

APHARA, a town in the tribe of Benjamin, Joshua.

APHAS, a river of Moloffia in Epirus, Pliny.

APHEK, a town in the tribe of Manaffeh; another in the tribe of Judah; and a third in the tribe of Afher, Jofhua; where the Philiftines encamped against Ifrael, 1 Sam. and where Benhadad, king of Syria, was vanquished, 1 Kings. x. APHELIOTES. See APELIOTES. APHETAE, a town and port of Magnesia in Theffaly, on the north fide of the Sinus Pagafaeus; from which the Argonauts fet fail, which is the reafon of the name, Strabo. APHETERION, a port on the Ganges, Ptolemy.

APHIDNA, Paufanias; Aphydna, Stra. bo; and Aphidnae, Herodotus; one of the A, or hamlets of Attica, of the tribe Ptolemais, Hefychius ; where Thefeus is faid to have kept Helena, from which Caftor and Pollux delivered her, Herodotus, Strabo, Paufanias. In an infcription in Spon, Apíduos ; Aphidnienfis, is the gentilitious name.

APHNEUM, a town of Phrygia, Stephanus.

APHORMIUM, a lake of Thefpiae in Boeotia, Stephanus.

APHPHADANA, a town of Mefopotamia, Ptolemy.

APHRODISIUS, an inland city of Caria, called the metropolis, Ptolemy, Stephanus; faid by Suidas to have been called Ninoe. The citizens, Aphrodifienfes Liberi, Pliny, Tacitus. Another of Cilicia, Ptolemy; fo called from the worship and a temple of Venus; the promontory and town of Venus, next the island Cyprus, Pliny. A third of Thrace, to the north of the ifthmus of the Cherfonefus; an open town, till strongly fortified by Justi nian, Procopius. APHRODISIAS, an island on the coast of Carmania, Pliny; facred to VeI 2 nus,

nus, Arrian. Another ifland on the coaft of Cyrene, with a road for fhips, Scylax; called Laea, or the ifland of Venus, Ptolemy. APHRODISIUM, a town of Cyprus, where the island runs narrowing or tapering to the eaft; to the north of, and diftant feventy ftadia from, Salamis, Strabo. Another Aphrodifum of Africa Propria, at the promontory of Mercury, a temple of Venus, Ptolemy. A third, a colony of Numidia, Ptolemy: fup. pofed to be a mistake, for a promontory or temple of Venus. A fourth Aphrodifium, or temple of Venus, on a promontory of the Pyrenees, feparating Gaul from Spain, fometimes called fimply, Venus Pyrenaea, Pliny, Strabo. A fifth, Aphrodifium of Latium, Mela; extinct in Pliny's time. APHRODITIA, a small district of Laconica, Thucydides. APHRODITOPOLIS, a town of Egypt, in the Delta, in the Nomos Leonto polites, to the north-east of Athribis, a town fituate on the branch of the Nile, called Athribiticus, Strabo, Stephanus. Another to the east of the island Heraclea, towards Arabia, in the Nomos called Aphrodi- | topolites, Strabo, Ptolemy. APHYDNA. See APHIDNA. APHYTIS, a town of the Cherfonefus, called Pallare, in Macedonia, Pliny. Famous for an oracle of Apollo. The inhabitants are called Aphytaei, Stephanus; who pay no lefs worship to Jupiter Ammon than thofe of Africa do, Paufanias. APIA, an ancient name of Pelopon

nefus, Pliny; (being before called Aegialea) from Apius, a king of Sicyon.

APIA. See APPIA.

APIDANUS, a river of Theffaly, Paufanias, with a north-eaft flow course; till it mixes with the Enipeus, by which it is carried into the Peneus, Lucan, Ovid; rifing in mount Bro mius, it washes Gomphi and Pharfalus: now called Epideno. APILOCARIUM, a town of Lufitania, Phlegon Trallianus.

APINA, or Apinae, a town of Apulia,

built by Diomedes, as was alfo Tricae, Pliny. Apinae and Tricae is a proverbial faying for things trifling,

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and of no value, Martial: and Apinarii was the appellation for triflers or buffoons, Trebellius Pollio. APIOLA, or Apiolae, a city of Italy taken by Tarquin; with the spoils. of which he began building the capitol, Pliny, Stephanus. APIS, a town of Marmarica, famous for the fuperftition of the Egypti ans; whofe kingdom extended fa far to the west, Pliny, Scylax. APOBATANA, the metropolis of Media, and where the kings kept their

treasure, Ifidorus Characenus: fuppofed to be the fame with Ecbatana. APOBATHRA, a place near Seftos, Strabo; the landing place where Xerxes's fhip was frozen, and stuck in the ice, Euftathius. APOCOPA, a town of Ethiopia, on the Red Sea, Ptolemy: called a promontory by Arrian; alfo a bay of the Red Sea, Marcianus Heracle

ota.

APOCOPI, mountains of India intra Gangem, nearer the Indus, Ptole

my. APOLLINARES AQUAE, in Etruria; a place diftant three miles from Caftrum Novum, on the coaft, towards the land fide, Itinerary. APOLLINIS ARCHEGETAE ARA. See ARCHEGETAE.

APOLLINIS ARX, near the cave of the Sybil, in Campania, Virgil. Now Arco Felice.

APOLLINIS LIBYSTINI TEMPLUM, near Pachynum, a promontory of Sicily, where Apollo was religioufly worshipped: and hence the Libyans, landing with a fleet at that promontory, were ftruck by Apollo with peftilence and fudden death, Macrobius.

APOLLINIS TEMPLUM, in Thrace, in the territory of the Aenii, Livy. Another in Lycia, on the Sinus Myrienfis, Aelian. APOLLINIS URBS MAGNA, called also Apollonopolis, and Apollonis Superior, Itinerary; a city of Egypt, in the Nomos Hermonthites in the Thebais, Ptolemy, Strabo. The inhabitants are called Apollinopolitae, great enemies to the crocodile, which they take in nets, and kill, Strabo, Aelian.

APOLLINIS URBS PARVA, called also

Apollonos, a city of Egypt, in the

Nomos

Nomos Coptites, to the fouth of
Coptos, towards the Red Sea, Stra-
bo; called alfo Inferior, Stephanus,
Ptolemy.

APOLLINIS PROMONTORIUM, Pliny, I Ptolemy; a promontory in Africa Propria, oppofite to Sardinia, near Utica; called Apollonium Strabo. Another in Mauretania Caefarienfis, Pliny.

APOLLO, put for Apollo's temple, Virgil.

APOLLONIA, a town of Aetolia, Livy. Another of Affyria, beyond the river Gorgos, Ptolemy; between Babylon and Sufa, Stephanus ; of Greek original, as appears from the name. A third of Caria, at the Lambanus, either a river or a mountain, Ptolemy. The inhabitants are called Apolloniatae, Pliny. In the Notitia it is called Apollonias, ados. A fourth of Chalcidice, in Macedonia, which arofe in the place of Acrothoon, a town on mount Athos; the inhabitants were called Macrobii, longlived, Mela. A fifth of Crete, near Cnoffus, Stephanus; formerly called Eleutheria. A fixth, called alfo Apollonias, a port of Cyrene, Strabo. A feventh on the Adriatic, on the coaft of Illyria, diftant fixty ftadia from the fea, and ten from the riverAoos; built by the Corinthians and Corcyreans, Id.Famous for learning, and thither Auguftus was fent by his great uncle Caefar, by the mother. The inhabitants are called Apolloniatae, and Apolloniates, Cicero, Livy, Caefar. An eighth of Mygdonia, in Macedonia, between Amphipolis and Theffalonica, Luke, Antonine. A ninth of Palestine, on the fea, Jofephus; between Caefarea and Joppa, Ptolemy, Pliny. It must have had its name from the Macedonian kings of Syria, or of Egypt, who long difputed that feacoat. A tenth of Pifidia, to the fouth-west of Antiochia, Ptolemy; near Amblada, to the north of which it lies; it was formerly called Mordiaeum, Stephanus. An eleventh in Mylia, on the Rhyndacus, Stephanus, Coins. Situate on a lake called Apolloniatis, Strabo. A twelfth of Sicily, near Halus and Calacta, Diodorus; Civitas Apol· lonienfis, Cicero. A thirteenth of

Syria, in Coelefyria, Stephanus; but where is not faid. A fourteenth of Thrace, a colony of the Milesians, from which Lucullus took away a coloffus of Apollo, and placed it in the Capitol; the greatest part of the town was fituate in a small island on the Euxine, in which was a temple of Apollo, Strabo. Pliny fays the coloffus was thirty cubits high, and coft five hundred talents. There was also an Apollonia at mount Parnaffus, near Delphi, Stephanus. Troezen was formerly called Apol lonia, id.

APOLLONIATIs, a district of Assyria, about the city Apollonia, Polybius, Ptolemy: alfo a lake in Myfia, Strabo. See APOLLONIA. APOLLONIDEA, a town of Lydia, mentioned on the bafe of Tiberius's coloffus; called Apollonis; midway between Pergamus and Sardes, Strabo, Cicero: The gentilitious name is Apollonidenfes, Cicero; Apollonidienfes, Pliny.

APOLLONIUM, the promontory which fhuts to the weft the bay on which Carthage and Utica are fituate,Strabo. APOLLONOPOLIS. See APOLLINIS

URBS MAGNA.

APOLLONOS, (Polis understood) See APOLLINUS URES PARVA. APOLLONOS HIERON, a town of Lydia, fo called from a temple of Apollo. The gentilitious name is Apollonofbieritae, Pliny.

APONIANA, an island near Lilybeum, of Sicily, Hirtius.

APONUS, a hamlet near Patavium,
with warm baths; the waters were
reckoned prophetic, Sueton; and
good in difeafes, and hence the ap-
pellation. The birth place of Livy,
Martial. Now, Abano. E. Long.
10°, Lat. 45° 15'.
APORIDIS COME, a hamlet of Phry.
gia, Livy.

APPA,a town of Arabia Felix,Ptolemy.
APPHA, a town of Parthia, Ptolemy.
APPHADANA. See APHPHADANA.
APPHANA, an ifland in the Perfian
Gulf, Ptolemy.
APPHAR, a town of Mauretania Cae-
farienfis, between the rivers China-
laph and Cartennus, Ptolemy.
APPIA, or Apia, a town of Phrygia
Magna. The gentilitious name,
Appiani, Cicero, Pliny.

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