copolis, in the fame meridian, and in 42° 10', of Latitude, the fame with that of Satala, a town a little more eafterly, Ptolemy.

Aza. See Gaza.

AZA, an obfcure town in the Pontus

Cappadocius, Ptolemy.

AZAGA, Stephanus; a province of Media, towards Armenia Major. AZAGARIUM, a town of Sarmatia Europaea, on the Boryfthenes, Ptolemy. E. Long, 36o, Lat. 50° 40′. Now fuppofed to be Czernobol, a town of Poland, in Red Ruffia, in the Palatinate of Kiow, not far from the Borysthenes.

AZAMA, Ptolemy; fuppofed to be the fame with Zama, which fee. ÂZAMORA, a citadel of Armenia Minor, Strabo.

AZANI, orum, Strabo, Stephanus; a town of Phrygia, furnamed Epictetos. The gentilitious name Azanitae, Stephanus. AZANIA, Paufanias; one of the three districts, and the western, into which Arcas, the fon of Jupiter and Califto, divided Arcadia; fo called from Azan, one of his three fons, a territory barren and incultivated, Stephanus. The gentilitious name is Azanes, a people famous for their antiquity, Strabo: Azan, Statius. Azania is also a district of Ethiopia, at the equator, towards the Red Sea, Ptolemy, Arrian.

AZANITIS, a district of Phrygia Epictetos, where the river Rhyndacus rifes, Strabo; fo called from the city Azani.

AZANIUM MARE, that part of the Ethiopic Ocean, on which Azania borders, Pliny.

AZANOTH-THABOR, a city of Galilee, the boundary of the tribe of Naphthali, Joshua.

AZANUS, a river of Taprobane, whose mouth is on the fouth fide of the ifland, Ptolemy.

AZAR, a mountain of Egypt, Ptole

goddefs Diana: Appian fays, that Antiochus Epiphanes plundered the temple of Venus of Elymais. We are to fuppofe, the name of the goddefs barbarous; probably Nanaea, mentioned 2 Maccabes, and therefore the Greeks give her different names.

AZARABA, a town of Sarmatia Afiatica, on the Rhombites Minor, falling from east to west into the Palus Maeotis, Ptolemy. AZARITHIA, a fountain of Phrygia, called Epictetos, Strabo. AZATHA, a town of Armenia Major, Ptolemy.

AZEKA, a city of the Amorrhites, in the lot of Judah; fituate between Eleutheropolis and Aelia, Jerome ; where the five kings of the Amorrhites and their army were destroyed by hail-ftones from heaven, Jofhua.

AZEм, a town of Judea, in the tribe of Simeon, Judges. AZENENSES, a Anus, or hamlet of Attica, Stephanus: and hence Anlgios Alveus, Inscription in Wheeler.

AZENUS. See ACHELOUS. AZETENE, a more foutherly district of Armenia Major, between the Euphrates and the fprings of the Tigris; in the Palatine copy, Anzitene, Ptolemy.

Azicis, an inland town of Marmarica, Ptolemy.

AZILIS, a town, river, or mountain of Libya, Stephanus, Callimachus; the fcholiaft on which laft fays, it was a mountain and river of Libya; and Herodotus, a town of the Cyrene

ans.

AZIRIS, a town of Armenia Minor, near the Euphrates, Ptolemy. Aziu, Antonine, Peutinger, a town

on the weft fide of the Syrtis Major. AzмON, a town of Judea. See ASE

ΜΟΝΑ.

Azorus, Septuagint, Herodotus; a confiderable place, and withstanding a long fiege by Pfammeticus, Herodotus; Ajdod, Hebrew; one of the five cities of the Philiftines, on the Mediterranean: famous for the temple of Dagon, deftroyed by Jonathan Afmonaeus; when he took

and burnt the city, Jofephus. The ti gentilitious name Azotus, Septuagint, Vulgate. Scarce three miles from the Mediterranean.

Azuis, Ptolemy; a town to the east
of the river Cinyphus, near the Syr-
AZURITANUM, a town of Africa
Pliny.

BAA

from the Dead Sea and the Mediter ranean; formerly called Kiriath jearim, or City of the Woods, alfo Kiriath Baal, Joshua: one of the cities of the Gibeonites, about nine miles to the fouth of Aelia, or Jerufalem, Jerome, Eufebius. In this city food for fome time the ark, after its recovery from the Philiftines, 1 Sam. vii.

BAALATH, Joshua; a city of the tribe of Dan; or Baleth, Josephus; at no great distance from Gazara. Baalath, alfo a city built by Solomon, I Kings ix.

BAAL GAD, a place in the valley of Lebanon, under mount Hermon, Joshua. According to Eufebius and Jerome, a city in the plains of Lebanon, at the foot of mount Hermon. But because Hermon is to the east of Lebanon, the place feems to be fituate in the Auranitis, eastwards rather than to the north of Galilee, and the springs of Jordan, and confequently on the other fide the Jordan.

BAAL-HAZOR, a place to the fouth of
Ephraim, a city of Benjamin.
BAAL-HERMON, a part of mount Her-
mon, Judges iii. 1 Chron. v.
BAAL-MEON, or Beel Meon, a village

on the other fide of Jordan, built
by the Reubenites, near Baaru, in
Arabia, where are hot baths, dif-
tant nine miles from Hefhbon, Je-
rome, Eufebius.

BAAL PERAZIM, 2 Sam. v. a place where David defeated the Philif tines.

Kings iv. Salifa, Jerome; the ancient name of which was Bela, Mofes; and afterwards Zoar; when faved from the deftruction of the cities of the plain, at the prayer of Lot, id.

BAAL-THAMAR, a village near Gibeah in the tribe of Benjamin. BAAL-ZEPHON, Mofes; or Beel Sephon, a place on the Red Sea; sup. pofed to be to the north of Pihahiroth.

BAARSARES. See MAARSARES. BAARU, the name of a mountain un

known ; from which fpring the hot waters of Baal Meon, Eusebius, Jerome.

BABBA, called Julia Campeftris, Pliny; Baba, Ptolemy; a colony of Auguftus, forty miles from Lixus; an inland town of Mauretania Tingitana, Coins.

BABEL, Mofes; Babylon, Greeks and Romans; the capital of Babylonia, or Chaldaea, and one of the most ancient cities in the world; named from the confufion miraculously canfed in the language of the people, to oblige them to defift from building, and feparate and fpread themfelves on the earth. Some fuppose, that Homer's term Meropes, for men, is in allufion to this event. Here Nimrod built the capital of his kingdom, called Babel, Moses ; ftanding on each fide the Eupbrates, in compafs fixty miles, with walls two hundred feet high, and fifty broad. Diodorus Siculus, from Clitarchus, reduces the compaís to forty-five miles. Herodotus, how

ever, affigns to each fide an hundred and twenty ftadia, which in the four fides amount to four hundred and eighty ftadia, which are Pliny's number of fixty miles. Curtius agrees nearly with Diodorus, mak. ing the circuit three hundred and fixty-eight ftadia; but Strabo extends it to three hundred and eighty-five ftadia; and fo broad, that carriages, with four horfes abreaft, could pass each other with cafe. The whole of this fpace was not inhabited, fields and gardens interpofing; and if we may credit Curtius, only ninety ftadia were built upon, or occupied by houses. The walls were built with bricks and bitumen, Jofephus, Juftin. Among the ornaments were the hanging garden, Diodorus, Strabo, Jofephus; the temple of Belus, the embankment of the Euphrates, and other grand and extraordinary works, mentioned by different authors. The city, built by Nimrod, was enlarged by Belus, greatly ornamented by Nebuchadnezar, A. bydenus, Jofephus. Its fate was lefs fevere under Darius and his fon Xerxes, being only difmantled by the former, and the latter destroying that admirable ftructure, the monument of Belus: its calamities were greater under the Macedonians; almoft exhaufted of inhabitants by Seleucia, a city built on the Tigris, by Seleucus Nicanor, Pliny; called alfo Babylon. In Strabo's time defolate for the greatest part; or, according to Diodorus, a fmall part only inhabited.

And

Paufanias, that there remained tanding only the walls; in Jerome's time turned to a park. It stood, as was faid, on each fide the Euphrates, having streets, running from north to fouth, parallel with the river, and others croffing those from east to west. The inhabitants were much addicted to, and noted for altrology; and for the manufacture of cloth of various colours, or embroidered cloth. Suppofed to have stood in 44° E. Long. and 32° N. Lat.

BABIBA, a town of Libya Interior, on the Atlantic, Ptolemy. BABYLON, in the Apocalypfe, is by

Proteftants fuppofed to be the city of Rome, both Pagan and Papal, the feat of Antichrift: but by the Catholics, Pagan Rome only. BABYLON, a town of Egypt, near the eaftmoft branch of the Nile, called Bubafticus, in the Nomos Heliopolites, Ptolemy; a ftrong citadel, garrifoned with a Roman legion, Strabo. Now fupposed to be Grand Cairo, or this city to ftand near its ruins. E. Long. 319 12', Lat. 30° 5'. BABYLON of Chaldea. See BABEL. BABYLONIA, a country of Asia, bounded on the north by Mesopotamia, by the Tigris on the east, on the west by Arabia Deserta, and on the fouth by a part of the Sinus Perficus, and the borders of Arabia Felix, at this Gulf, Ptolemy. Sometimes called Chaldaea in a larger fenfe, Jeremiah, Ezekiel; a name otherwise restrained to the south part of Babylonia. BABYLONII MONTES, mountains extremely high, ftretching out between Chaldaea and Arabia Deferta, Pliny.

BABYRSA, a citadel of Armenia Major, not far from Artaxata, fituate in the mountains; where Tigranes and Artabazus kept their treasure, Strabo, Stephanus.

BABYSENGA. See BESYNGA. BABYTACE, a city of Perfia, Stepha

nus; whofe inhabitants were noted for their contempt of gold, Pliny. BACACUM, Peutinger; Bagacum, Antonine; a town of the Nervii, in Gallia Belgica: now Bavay, in Hainault. E. Long. 3° 40', Lat. 50° 25'.

BACALITIS, a district of Ethiopia beyond Egypt, Ptolemy. BACARE, a maritime town of the Hither India, Ptolemy. BACASIS, a town of Hifpania Tarraconenfis, Ptolemy. Now Manrefa, in Catalonia. BACCANAE, a village of Tuscany, Antonine; near the fprings of the Cremera.

BACCHI INSULA, an inland in the A

rabian Gulf, over against the Tro-
glodytae, Ptolemy.

BACCHI MONS. a mountain of Thrace,
near Philippi, Appian.
BACCHIA, a town of Albania, Pliny.
BACENIS,

BITTANA, a royal refidence, and in A Land town of the Hither India, Ptokay.

CH BAITARRHUS, untis, a town of AraPetraea, Stephanus.

E.

A BITERRAE, arum, Mela; Beterrae, Piny, Antonine; with the furname Septimanorum in both; which fhews, afeventh colony was thither led; Bartirae, Ptolemy; according to whom it is a town of the Tectofages, in Gallia Narbonenfis : Bras, the inhabitants, Coins, Infcriptions: in the Notitia Gailiae, the town is called Civitas Beterenfum: now Beziers, on the left or east ank of the Obris, now Orbis or Crbe, in Lower Languedoc. Long. 3°, Lat. 43° 25′• BATICA, the other, or fecond part of the Hifpania Ulterior, or Farther Spain, fo called from the river Baets; but by the ancient inhabitants, ether the whole, or a great part of it was called Turditania, Strabo ; contained between the Anas and the Mediterranean; the Baetis di. vding it in the middle; from which river, quite to the Anas, the country, especially towards the east, with the Oretani, is feparately call

Baeturia; the lower part, towards the ftraits, inhabited by the Batetani, the Baftuli, and the Turtani, Turdetania: but this was a name less common than that of Leturia. The eastern boundary is not so certain, On the coaft is fituate Barea, or Baria, Ptolemy; the last town of the province; but Murgis, more to the eaft, on the fea-coaft, is the boundary of Baetia, according to Pliny: to the north the boundary is fettled between Oftigi and Caftulon, quite to Sifapon; which laft Ptolemy afsigns to the Tarraconenfis, but others to Baetica. The Romans divided it into four Conventus Juridici, namely, the Gaditanus, Cordubenfis, Aftigitanus, and the Hifpalenfis : now called Andalusia. BAETIRAE. See BAETERRAE. BAETIS, a river which rifes in the • Saltus Tugienfis, in Hifpania Tarraconenfis, Pliny; rarely written Bates, Sil. Italicus; and rareft of all Betis, without a diphthong; as in an infcription under Antonine

we have Betica, which gave occafion to the poets of the lower age to make the first fyllable short. The Greeks fay Bailis, whom fome Romans imitate in forming the accufative, Baetin, as Martial, Lucan, Pliny; but Hirtius, Livy, Baetim. Baetes forms Baetem, Infcription; and in the ablative we read Baete, ibid. which in other authors is Baeti, analogically formed from im or in. The Baetis was anciently called Tarteffus, Strabo, Stephanus, Paufanias; alfo Perce, or Berce, Stephanus; from its waters ftanding and forming marthes in three feveral places; which is alfo the rea fon of the name Baetis, Bitzi, Phoe nician, Bochart: the Certem in Livy is fuppofed to be a faulty reading for Percem, Voffius. Now called the Guadalquivir, or the great river of Corduba, from which city it begins to bend its course fouthwards, till it falls into the Mediterranean, having run before from east to west.

BAETIUS, Ptolemy; a river of Arabia Felix, which falls into the Arabian Gulf. BAETOGABRA, Ptolemy; a town of Judaea. In Peutinger, we find Betogabri placed between Ascalon and Aelia.

BAETULA, Livy; a town on the borders of Baetica, which feems to be the fame with the Baecyla of Stephanus, and Obucula of Hirtius and Ptolemy.

BAETULO, or Betulo, Pliny; Baetullo, Mela; a town of Tarraconenfis, on the Mediterranean, next to Barcino in Infcriptions it is written either with ae or e. Now Badalona, in Catalonia. E. Long, 2° 15', Lat. 41° 15'. The gentilitious name is Baetulonenfes, Infcriptions. BAETURIA, one part of Baetica, feparated from the other by the Baetis, comprised between the Anas and the Baetis; and according to Pliny, divided into two parts, and as many diftin&t people; namely, the Celtici, who border on Lufitania, and are under the jurifdiction of the Conventus Hifpalenfis; and the Turduli, who border both on Lufitania and Tarraconenfis, and

are