canus.

AFRICA CARTHACINIENSIS, or Propria, the inhabitants of this country are called by the Greeks 'APgos. Ptolemy extends it from the river Ampfaga, in Numidia, to the Cyrenaica, by which means it contains Numidia, the territory of Carthage, and the Tripolitana. Pliny extends Africa Propria from the river Tufca, the boundary of Numidia on the eaft, to the river Triton, or to the bay of the Lefs Syrtis, confifting of two parts, the Zeugitana, and Byzacium and this was properly the Carthaginian territory.

AFRICA INTERIOR, is divided by Ptolemy into two parts; namely, Libya Interior, and Aethiopia beyond Egypt. The former lies westward, whofe line of demarcation to the eaft Ptolemy draws through Darnis, a town on the borders of the Marmarica and Cyrenaica. In this part the principal nations were the Getuli, Garamantes, Nigritae, and the Hefperii, or western Aethiopes. The other part he has ranged to the south of Marmarica and ! Egypt. In both parts he has difpofed the several people in fuch a manner, as not at all, or but doubtfully to fix their boundaries; nor indeed could he, confidering the little knowledge he must have had of fuch remote parts. AFRICA PROPRIA. See CARTHAGINIENSIS.

AFRICUS, a wind blowing between fouth and weft, Virgil, Horace. AGABENI, Ptolemy; a people in the fouth of Arabia Deserta, near the mountains of Arabia Felix. AGAMEA, or Agamia, a promontory and port near Troy, Stephan. AGAMEDE, the name of a place near Pyrrha, in the island of Lesbos, Stephanus. The calling it a place denotes that the town is extinct. AGAMEMNONIS FONTES, fprings in lonia, near Smyrna, Philoftratus. AGAMIA. See ÁGAMEA.

AGAMIUM, now Gheme, a town in the territory of Novaria, near the river Seffia. The inhabitants are called Agamini, as appears from an ancient infcription.

AGAMUA, a town of Mefopotamia,
Ptolemy; little known.

AGANIPPE, a fountain of Boeotia, at mount Helicon, on the borders, between Phocis and Boeotia, facred to the Mufes, and running into the river Permeffus, Pliny, Paufanias; Ovid feems to make Aganippe and Hippocrene the fame. Solinus more truly diftinguishes them, and afcribes the blending them to poetical licence.

AGANZAGA, a town of Media, but little known, Ptolemy.

AGAR, a town of Africa Propria, mentioned by Hirtius.

AGARA, a town of the Phylitae intra Gangem, Ptolemy; Sanfon fuppofes it to be the modern Agra. E. Long. 76, Lat. 25°. AGARENI. See HAGARENI. AGARRA, a town of the Sufiana, to the fouth of Sufa, on, or near the river Eulaeus, Ptolemy. AGARUM, a town of the Agareni, in Arabia, which Trajan dismantled, Dio Caffius.

AGARUS, a river of Sarmatia Europea, Ptolemy; called Sagaris by Ovid, and by others Hypanis, and falls into the Palus Maeotis. AGASUS, a port of Apulia, Pliny; fituate between the promontory Garganus, and the river Cerbalus, now called Porto Greco. Another Agaffus, Pliny; Agaffa, ae; Agaffae, arum, Livy; a town of Macedonia; Agejus, Stephanus; of Thrace; or on the borders of both.

AGATHA, an island in the Meditera
nean, between the mouth of the
Rhone and the Pyrenees, Ptolemy,
Pliny; now joined to the continent
by a mole, and called Maguelone.
AGATHA, or Agathe, a town built
by the Maflilians, Strabo, Pliny;
now Agde, in Lower Languedoc,
to the east of Narbonne, on the rivu-
let Erault. E. Long. 2° 20′, Lat.
43° 25'.
AGATHOCLIS INSULAE, two islands
in the Indian Ocean, to the fouth
of the Red Sea, Ptolemy.
AGATHONIS INSULA, an ifland in
the Red Sea, next to Egypt, Ptole-
my.
AGATHOPOLIS, a town of Gallia Nar-

bonenfis, Ptolemy; now Montpel-
lier, in the fouth-eaft of Languedoc,
on an eminence at the river Lez.
E. Long. 3o 50', Lat. 43° 37.
E 2

AGA

AGATHUSSA, the island Telos in the fea of Rhodes, fo called by Callimachus, Pliny; adjoining to Triopion, a promontory of Caria, Herodotus.

AGATHYRNA, or Agathyruum, Agathyrfa, Polybius; Agathyrfum, Strabo; a town of Sicily, now S. Marco, as old as the war of Troy, being built by Agathyrnus, fon of Aeolus, on an eminence. The gentilitious name is Agathyrnaeus, or according to the Roman idiom, Agathyrnenfis.

AGATHYRSI, Mela; the fame with the Hamaxobii, from their living in wains; a people both of Afia and Europe, a branch of the Sarmatae, gay and fplendid in their drefs, and fond of all the finery of a woman, Herodotus; living together in perfect amity, without envy or rancour, id.

AGAVI, Homer a people of Scythia, of the greatest innocence of manners, and living in fimplicity, without the cares of riches. AGAZACA, a town near the mountain Paropamifus, a part of mount Taurus, Ammian.

AGBATANA. See ECBATANA. AGDESTIS, or Agdiftis, a mountain of

Phrygia, near Peffinus, Paufanias. AGELOCUM, a town of Britain on the Trent, fuppofed to be Axholm; but by Camden, Littleborough, and the true appellation to be Segelocum. AGENDICUM, the chief town of the Senones, Liber Notitiarum; now Sens, fituate where the Vanne runs into the Yonne, on the borders of the Gatingis. E. Long. 3° 53′, Lat. 48° 2'.

AGENNUM. See AGINNUM. AGER CAMPANUS. See CAPUA, AGER PICEN US, Cicero, Salluft, Livy; and fometimes Picenum, Caefar, Pliny; a territory of Italy, to the fouth-east of Umbria, reaching from the Apennine to the Adriatic. The people are called Picentés, Cicero, Livy; distinct from the Picentini on the Tufcan Sea, though called by Greek writers ПMETIVO. This name is faid to be from the bird Picus, under whofe conduct they removed from the Sabines, of whom they were a colony, Stephanus. AGESINATES, Pliny; a people of

AGMONIA. See ACMONIA

AGNA, a river of Mauretania Tingitana, Ptolemy.

AGNICES, or Agnicis, a river falling into the Tigris, Pliny.

AGNI CORNU, a low and fandy promontory of Egypt, between two mouths of the Nile, namely, the Bolbitinum and Sebennyticum, Stra bo.

AGNONIA, a town of Thrace, built by Agnon, the Athenian general, Thucydides; near Amphipolis, Stephanus.

AGONALIS CIRCUS, now La Piazza Navona, a long, large, beautiful street in the heart of Rome, adorned with fountains, and the obelisk of Caracalla; ftill retaining the form of that circus; the reafon of the name Agonalis is either unknown or doubtful; Ovid feems to derive it from the Agones, or folemn games, there celebrated; fuppofed to have been the Ludi Apollinares, or Alliaci, inftituted by Auguftus; whence the circus was called Apollinaris; alfa Alexandrinus, from the emperor Alexander Severus, who either en- . clofed or repaired the circus. AGONENSIS PORTA. See COLLINA. AGORANIS, a river of India, falling into the Ganges, Arrian. AGRA, a town of the Sufiana, Ptole

my.

Tay. Alfo a place in Boeotia, where the river Ilyffus rifes, from which Diana takes the name Agraea, Paufanias.

AGRADATUS, a river of Perfia, Strabo.

ACRAE, arum, Paufanias; a place ⚫ near Athens, on the other fide the Diffus.

AGRAEI, Ptolemy; a people of Arabia Deferta, to the weft of the Aufitae.

AGRAGAS. See ACRAGAS.

AGRANI, a town of Babylonia, Pliny. AGRE, a town of Lydia, Stephanus. AGREI, Pliny; a people of Arabia Felix.

AGRIANES, a river of Thrace, on this fide Rhodope, Stephanus; from which the neighbouring people were called Agriani, Strabo; Agraei, Herodotus.

AGRI, Strabo; a people fituate on the eaft fide of the Palus Maeotis. AGRI DECUMATES, See DECUMA

AGRILIUM, a town of Bithynia, near mount Olympus, Ptolemy. E. Long. 1 32° 30, Lat. 41° 40'./

AGRINIUM, a town of Aetolia, fituate between the Achelous and Eyeinus, northwards, Polybius. AGRIPPENSES. See UBII. ACRIPPEUM, or Agrippias, Anthedon in Judea, fo called becaufe rebuilt by Herod, who was also called Agrip

pa. AGSIPPINAE PRAETORIUM, a town on the Khine, in the island of Batavia, Peutinger.

AGRIPPINA COLONIA UBIORUM, Pliny, Suetonius; now Cologne, fo called from Agrippina, the daughter of Germanicus, and mother of Nero, who had a colony fent thither at her requeft by the emperor Claudius, to honour the place of her birth. It is also called Colonia Agrippinenfis,fituate on the Rhine. E.Long. 7° 56', Lat. 50° 55'.

AGRIS, a town of Carmania, Ptole

Aeolia, in Afia Minor, afterwards called Attalia, from Attalus Phila-. delphus, who rebuilt it, Stephanus reckoned among the towns of Pamphylia, Strabo.

AGROSPI, a town on the banks of the Nile, in the Ethiopia beyond Egypt, Pliny.

AGUBENI, the fare with Agabeni. AGUNTUM, a town of Rhaetia, Pliny;

now Doblach, a hamlet of the county of Tyrol, on the river Riencz, at the foot of the Alps, Cluverius. AGURIUM, Ptolemy; or Agyrium, Pliny; a town of Sicily, in the Val di Demona, near the river Symaethus, the people were called Populus, Agyrinenfis by Cicero; Agyrinus by Pliny. It was the birth place of Diodorus Siculus, as he teftifies himfelf; but he calls it Argyrium, as it is now called S. Filippo d'Argirone, which modern name feems to confirm, that Argyrium is the true reading.

AGYLLAE, the ancient name of Caere, founded by the Pelafgi, from Theffaly, Pliny, Strabo; a town of Etruria, formerly large, and celebrated for its riches and power, Strabo, Virgil; but in Strabo's time fallen to decay, now called Cervetere. See CAERE.

AGYRIUM. See AGURIUM.

AHELOTH, Jerome; the fame with Ailana, which fee.

Al, a town in Judea, to the north of Jericho, called 'Aa by Jofephus, and the inhabitants Ainatae. AIALON, a town of the tribe of Dan, one of the Levitical. Another in the tribe of Benjamin, in whose valley Joshua commanded the moon to ftand ftill, being then in her decreafe, and confequently to be seen at the fame time with the fụn, Joshua.

AILANA, Ailath, or Aheloth, a town of Arabia Petraea, fituate near the Sinus Elanites of the Red Sea. It is alfo called Elath, and Eloth, Stephanus, Strabo, Mofes. The fame with Elana.

AILANITES SINUS, or Aelanites, a bay of the Red Sea, fo denominated from Ailana, Diodor. Sic.

AILATH. See AILANA.

AIPOLIS, a town of Babylonią, where were

PIONIS.

ALALCOMENAE, a town in the terri tory of Deuriopus, in the north of Macedonia, between the river Axius and Erigon, Strabo.

Spain, Ptolemy. Now Alava. ALABANDA, de, a town of Caria, near the Meander, fituate beneath eminences resembling affes with packfaddles, which gave rise to the jest; and between Amyzo to the weft, and Stratonice to the east. Under the Romans they enjoyed Alifes, or a convention of jurifdiction, by Pliny reckoned the fourth in order; hence the proverb in Stephanus, expreffing their happiness. Livy ufes it plurally, Alabanda, orum, as alfo Juvenal. It was built by Alabandus, whom therefore they deemed a god. The people were called Alabandi, Alabandenfes, Cicero; and Alabandeis, after the Greek manner, in coins of Augustus and Claudius; they were alfo called Alabandeni, Livy.

ALABASTRA, a town of Phrygia, Ste. phanus.

ALABASTRORUM URBS, a town of Egypt, to the weft of Cynopolis, Ptolemy.

ALABASTRUM, a mountain in Egypt, Pliny.

ALABASTRUs, a river of Troas, running from mount Ida, Pliny. ALABATER, a promontory of Carmania, in the bay of Paragon, Ptolemy.

ALABIS, Alabo, or Alabus, a river of Sicily, Diodorus, Ptolemy, Sil. Italicus; running with a north-eaft courfe, and falling into the Sicilian fea at Megara, now called the Cantaro, Cluverius.

ALABO, onis, or Alubum, a town, fuppofed to have stood on the banks of the Alabis; but in what particular fpot, or on which fide of the river, does not appear, much less the time

when.

ALABUNTIS. See ALAPUNTIS.
ALABUS. See ALABIS.

ALA FLAVIANA, a name of Vienna.
See VINDOBONA.

ALAEA MINERVA. See ALEA.

alcomenium, Stephanus; a town, Strabo; a hamlet, Paufanias; in Boeotia, on the lake Copais, between Haliartus and Coronea; famous for a temple of Minerva ; hence her epithet, Homer; the place derives its name from Alalcomenes, the fofter-father of Minerva, Paufanias.

ALALCOMENAE, a town of Ithaca, denominated from that of Boeotia, Plutarch. With a temple of Minerva, hence the epithet, Alalcomeneis, given that goddefs, Homer. ALALIA. See ALERIA. ALALIS, a town of the Palmyrene, near the Euphrates, Ptolemy. ALAMATA, a town of the Palmyrene, near the Euphrates, Ptolemy. ALAMUS, a town of Albania, Ptolemy.

ALANA, a town of Ethiopia, beyond Egypt, Pliny.

ALANDER, a river of Phrygia, Livy. ALANIA, the country of the Alani, a people to the north of the Palus Maeotis, fituate along the Tanais, Jofephus; having the Rhoxolani to the weft; defcendants of the Alani; in an ancient infcription they are joined with the Baftarnæ and Daci. ALANITICUS SINUS. See AELANI

TICUS.

ALA NOVA, a town of the Higher

Pannonia, between Vindobona and
Carnuntum, Itinerary.

ALANTONIS, a town of Spain, eight miles from Pampelona, Antonine. ALANUS, a river of Scythia; also a

mountain of Sarmatia, Stephanus. ALAPUNTIS, Alabuntis, or Alabons, a town of Gallia Narbonenfis, Antonine; now Talart, a hamlet in the fouth of Dauphiné, not far from the borders of Provence, on the river Durance. Others take it for Ventavon; or for Alamon, ruins near Ventavon. ALARIA. See ALERIA.

ALAS, a district of Attica, near the

Saxa Caryftia, or marble quarries, of Caryftus, Euripides. ALASI, a town of the Garamantes, taken by Corn. Balbus, Pliny. ALATA, Ptolemy; a town of Arabia Deferta. Another of Dalmatia, Antonine.

ALATA CASTRA, Πτερωτον σρατόπεδον,

Ptolemy; a town to the fouth of the Aeftuarium Bodotriae, or Frith of Forth; fuppofed to be Edinburgh. It was anciently called Edenodunum, Buchanan; which feems to be confirmed by its Celtic appellation; namely Dune Aidan; that is, the Dune, eminence, or citadel of Aidan, the proprietor. Burg is Saxon, anfwering to Dune in the Celtic. W. Long. 2° 46', Lat. 56° 7'. ALATRIUM, or Aletrium, now Alatro, in the east of the Campania di Roma, on the borders of Lavoro, and to the north of Abruzzo ultra. The inhabitants are called Alatrinates, Livy; and Aletrinates, Pliny. ALAUNA, a town of the Damnii in Britain, commonly fuppofed to be Allaway; but Whitlie, Camden. ALAUNA, Alaunium, Antonine ; a town of the Unelli, or the Contantin in the north-west of Normandy, near where Cherbourg now ftands.

ALAUNUS, Ptolemy; a river of Bri

tain, whose mouth is near the Ifle of Wight.

ALAVONA, Ptolemy; a town of the Vafcones in Spain.

ALAZIA, the name of a town, Strabo; of which Hecataeus says, that at this town the river Rhymus, running through the plain of Mygdonia from the weft, out of the lake of Dafcylitis, falls into the Rhyndacus, a river of Phrygia, but that then the town was defolate. ALAZON, a river of Albania, which feparates it from Iberia, and runing from north to fouth, falls into the Cyrus at Ofica, Ptolemy, Pliny. ALEA, Allaba, or Allava, Antonine; a river of Sicily, with a fouth-west course, falling into the African Sea, at Heraclea.

ALBA, a river of Spain, Pliny; afterwards called Tezerus, now the Ter, running in the east of Catalonia, from the Pyrenees, not far from the mountain Čanigo, through the town

of Girona; fome miles after, to the north of the promontory Palafugel, it falls into the Mediterranean. ALBA, a town of the Marfi in Italy, Pliny; fituate on the north-fide of the Lacus Fucinus, ftill retaining its name. The inhabitants were called Albani, and Albenfes. ALBA HELVIORUM, or Albaugufta, Pliny, Ptolemy; afterwards called Vivarium, now Viviers, in the foutheaft of Languedoc, on the Rhone. In the lower age the inhabitants were called Albenfes, and their city, Civitas Albenfium, in the Notitia Galliae. E. Long. 4° 45', Lat. 44° 50'.

ALBA JULIA, now Weissenburg, a town of Tranfylvania, on the river Marifius, or Merisch, to the west of Hermanftat, fuppofed to be called Alba Julia, after Julia Domna, the mother of Caracalla. There are, however, feveral infcriptions found at or near Weiffenburg, which bear Col. Apul. that is Colonia Apulenfis, without the leaft mention of Alba Julia, though infcribed after Caracalla's time. Add, that Ulpian, reciting the colonies of Dacia, calls this colony Apulenfis, and neither Alba nor Julia. Whence there is a fufpicion, that Alba Julia is a corruption of Apulum. It was also called Apulum Auguftum. E. Long. 25°, Lat. 46° 46'.

ALBA LONGA, a colony from Lavini

um, in Latium, established by Ascanius, the fon of Aeneas, at the foot of the Mons Albanus: called Alba, from a white fow farrowing on that spot thirty white pigs, interpreted thirty years after which a city should be there built, Propertius; with the epithet Longa, from its length. It was the royal refidence, till the building of Rome, as was foretold by Anchifes, Virgil; deftroyed by Tullus Hoftilius, all but the fane or Temple, Strabo. ALBA POMPEIA, on the river Ceba, now Ceva, in Liguria, the birthplace of the emperor Pertinax; a colony either established at first, or re-established by Pompey, after having been before fettled by Scipio. The inhabitants were called Alpenfes Pompeiani. At this day the

town