near

Reftituta; reduced by Caepio under the Romans, during the war with Viriatus, Pliny, Appian. ARSACE See EUROPUS. ARSACIA, a town of Media, Mons Jafonius Ptolemy. ARSAMETES, a river, either of Parthia or Armenia, Tacitus. ARSAMIA, a town of Germany, Ptolemy.

ARSAMOSATA. See ARMOSATA. ARSANIAS, a river of Armenia Ma jor, running between Tigranocerta and Artaxata, but nearer the latter, Tacitus, Plutarch; and falling into the Euphrates, Piny. ARSEN, a river of Arcadia, in the territory of Thelpufa, Paufanias. ARSENA, a lake of Armenia Major; producing natron, and one kind of fish only; through it the Tigris takes its course, Strabo. ARSENARIA, a colony of Mauretania Caefarienfis, Ptolemy, Antonine; Arjennaria Latinorum, three miles distant from the fea, Pliny. ARSENIUM, a town of Germany, Ptolemy.

ARSENNARIA. See ARSENARIA. ARSETA, a northern district of Ar

menia Major, Ptolemy. ARSIA, a river, running from north

to fouth into the Adriatic, after a course of fifteen miles, the eastern boundary of Iftria, as alfo of Italy, towards Illyria, Ptolemy, Pliny. Now the Arfa, rifing from the lake Cofliaco, on the borders of Auftria.

ARSIANA, an inland town of the Sufiana, Ammianus. Tariana, Ptolemy; and which Bochart thinks, fhould be read Tarfiana. ARSICUA, a town of Germany, Ptolemy now Brin, in Moravia, at the confluence of the Swarta and Zwitta. E. Long. 16° 20', Lat. 49°

:

14°. ARSINARIUM, a promontory of Libya Interior, Ptolemy; fupposed to be Cape Verd. W. Long. 18°, Lat. 15o. ARSINOE, a town of Egypt, on the weft fide of the Arabian Gulf, near its extremity, to the fouth of Heroopolis, Strabo, Ptolemy; called Cleopatris by fome, Strabo. Another Arfinoe, a town of Cilicia, Prolemy; and the fifth of that name in

Cilicia, Stephanus; with a road or ftation for fhips, Strabo. A third Arfinoe, in the fouth of Cyprus, with a port between Citium and Salamis, Strabo A fourth, an inland town of Cyprus, called Marium formerly, Stephanus. A fifth in the north of Cyprus, between Acamas and Soli, Strabo. So called from Arfinoe, a queen of Egypt, Cyprus being in the hands of the Ptolemies. A fixth Arfinoe, a maritime town of Cyrene, formerly called Teuchira, Strabo, Ptolemy, Pliny; to the south of Ptolemais: Tauchira, Scylax, Stephanus, Peutinger, ancient Itinerary. A feventh Arfinoe, in the Nomos Arfinoites, to the west of the Heracleotes, on the weftern bank of the Nile, formerly called Crocodilorum Urbs, Strabo. The name Arfinoe, continued under Adrian, Coin. Ptolemy calls this Arfinoe, an inland metropolis, and therefore at fome distance from the Nile, with a port called Ptolemais. An eighth Arfinoe, a martime town of Lycia; fo called by Ptolemy Philadelphus, after the name of his confort, which did not hold long, it afterwards recovering its ancient name, Patara, Strabo. A ninth, a town of the Troglodytae, near the mouth of the Arabian Gulf, which towards Ethiopia is terminated by a promontory, called Dire, Ptolemy. This Arfinoe is called Berenice, and the third of that name in this quarter, with the diftinction Epidires, Pliny because situate on a neck of land running out a great way into the fea, Juba, quoted by Pliny. ARSINOITES, a Nomos of Egypt, to the weft of the Nile, where this river divides its ftream, and forms an inland, called Nomos Heracleotes ; and to the east of the Aphroditopolites,

Strabo.

port to the fouth of Cape Finisterre. | ÁRTABRUM, called alfo Celticum, and Nerium, Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy; a promontory of Gallicia: now Cape Finifterre. W. Long. 9° 20′, Lat. 43° 15'

ARTACABANE, a town of Aria, Pliny.

ARTACAEOS, an island in the Propontis, with a town of the fame name, Pliny.

ARTACANA, Ptolemy; a town in the fouth of Parthia.

ARTACAUA, Ifidorus Characenus, Ar ticaudna, Ptolemy, a town of Aria. ARTACE, or Artaca, a hamlet of Bithynia, Ptolemy; which Arrian calls Artanes, fuppofed through mistake for Artaces, and makes a river of: but places and rivers are often cog nominal.

ARTACENE, a district of Affyria. See ARACTENE.

ARTACIA, a fountain of the Leftrigons, inhabiting about Formicae, in Campania, Homer, Tibullus. ARTACINA, Ptolemy; a town in the weft of Crete: which Meurfius fuppoles to be put for Hyrtacina; be caufe in Scylax we have reaxion, with for T. S In Stephanus it is Hyrtacos. ARTACOANA. See ARCTACOANA. ARTAEI MURUS, a town near the river Rhyndacus, in Myfia, Stepha

nus.

ARTAGERA, ae, Velleius Paterculus; Artagerae, arum, Strabo; a town of Armenia Major, near mount Taurus, between Arfamofata and Tigranocerta, Ptolemy. Here Caius Caefar, grandson of Auguftus, received a wound of which he died, Velleius.

ARTAGIRA, a town of Libya Interior, to the fouth weft of the Paludes

Chelonidae, Ptolemy.

ARTALBINUM. See ARIALBINUM. ARTAMES, a river of Bactria, which falls into the Zariafpis, Ptolemy; whofe fprings are in ninety-four degrees of E. Long. and Lat. 39°. ARTAMIS, a hamlet of Cyrene, Ptolemy.

ARTANES, a river of Bithynia. See ARTACE. Alfo a river running into the Danube, Herodotus. ARTANISSA, a town in the fouth of Iberia, to the east of the Aragus, Ptolemy.

ARTASIGARTA, Ptolemy; a town of Armenia Major.

ARTAUNUM, a town of Germany, Ptolemy; which fome fuppofe to be Wurtzburg; others, with Cluverius, Ortenberg, in the Wetterau. ARTAXATA, orum, the royal refi dence, and metropolis of Armenia Major, fituate on the Araxes, Strabo, Pliny, Juvenal; and built according to a plan of Hannibal, for king Artaxas, or Artaxias, after whom it was called, and who being general to Antiochus the Great, was, after the defeat of that prince, made a king of Armenia, Strabo. Another Artaxata of Cappadocia, fituate between Caefarea and Comana, Antonine.

ARTEMISIA, and Artemita, by Greek authors, and Dianium, Piny; an island in the Tufcan Sea; now called Gianuto, a little to the north of Ilua.

ARTEMISIUM, either a promontory, Harpocration; or a part of the feacoaft, on the north-east of Euboea, Plutarch; called Leon, and Cale Ade, Ptolemy; memorable for the first fea engagement between the Greeks and Xerxes, Diodorus Siculus, Nepos, Plutarch; extending north of Eftiaea. Another promontory of Caria, Strabo A third in Spain, now called Cape Martin, in Valencia: in the meridian of London, and Lat. 38° 50′.

ARTEMISIUM, a town of Oenotria, Stephanus now S. Agatha, in the Hither Calabria, on the river Pisaurus, or la Foglia, distant eight miles from the Tufcan Sea. Another of the Conteftani, in Spain, Strabo; otherwife called Dianium; now Denia, on the fea coaft of Valencia. W. Long 20', Lat. 39°. ARTEMISIUS MONS, a mountain of Arcadia, on whofe fummit ftood a temple of Diana; and in which are the fprings of the river Inachus, Paufanias.

ARTEMITA. See ARTEMISIA. Also a fmall inland in the Ionian fea, oppofite to the mouth of the Achelous, Pliny. Another of Arabia Deferta, near the mountains of Arabia Felix, Ptolemy. A third of Affyria, five hundred stadia to the eaft of Seleucia, Strabo; on the river Silla, Ifidorus Characenus.

ARTENA, a town of Tuscany, on the borders of the Caeretani and Veientes; anciently deftroyed by the kings of Rome, Livy. ARTHEDON, a small island on the coaft of Troas; to the fouth of the Hellefpont, Pliny.

ARTIACA, a town of Celtic Gaul, Antonine; now Arcis Sur l'Aube, in Champagne, Baudrand,

ARTICAUDNA. See ARTACAUA. ARTICENE, a district of Parthia, Stra. bo.

ARTIGI, indeclinable Pliny; Artigis, Ptolemy; a town of the Turduli, in Baetica. Now Alhama, a small city of Granada, in Spain; fituate on an eminence, and furrounded on every fide with precipices; diftant feven leagues to the fouth-west of Granada. W. Long. 4", Lat. 37°. ARTOARCTA, Ptolemy; a town of Paropamifus.

ARTOBRIGA, a town of Vindelicia, Ptolemy; now Altzburg, in Bavaria, on the Danube, below Ingolftadt, Aventinus; but Clayerius fuppofes it to be Lebenau, on the Saltzbach, below Lauffen, in the archbishoprick of Saltzburg. ARTOLICA, a town of the Salassii, in

Gallia Cifpadana, Antonine; at the foot of the Alps: now called la Tuile by the inhabitants, a hamlet of Savoy, in the duchy of Aoust, at the foot of 'mount St. Bernard the Lefs

ARTYNIA, a lake of Myfia, near Miletopolis, from which the Rhyndacus, formerly called Lycus, rifes, Pliny.

ARUA, a town of Baetica, of the refort of the Conventus Hifpalenfis, Pliny now Alcolea, a citadel of Andalusia, on the Baetis, or Guadalquiver, feven leagues above Seville. ARUALTES, a mountain of Libya Interior, Pliny; near the equinoctial.

ARUBIUM. See ARRUBIUM. ARUBOTH, a town of Judea, from which one of the twelve officers, that in their month fupplied Soloman's table, fent provifions, Kings iv.

leagues to the west of Ossuna. W, Long. 5° 20′, Lat. 37°. ARUCI, indeclinable, a town of the Celtici, in the north of Lufitania, Antonine, Infcription; called also Aruci Novum, to diftinguish it from the following: now supposed to be Moura, a fmall city of Portugal, near the confluence of the Ardila and Guadalquivir.

ARUCI VETUS, a fmall city of the Turdetani, in Baetica, Ptolemy: now Aroche, a hamlet of Andalufia, on the confines of Portugal and Eftramadura, on the river Gama, feven leagues to the eaft of Aruci Novum or Moura. From it a mountain, in its neighbourhood, takes the name Arucitanus; now la Sierra de Aroche.

ARUCIA, a town of Illyria, in the inland parts of Liburnia, Ptolemy: now Bregna, according to fome; but Ottofchatz, according to others; a citadel of Morlachia.

ARUDIS, a town of the Cyrrhiftica,、 a diftrict of Syria, below the confluence of the Singas and Euphrates, Ptolemy.

ARVERNI, an appellation early used for the capital of the Arverni, according to the custom of the latter ages, of naming towns from the people; it was formerly called Nemops, Strabo; Auguftonemetum, Ptolemy, Peutinger; Civitas Arvenorum, Notitia Galliae. The Arverni, a brave and ancient people, claimed affinity with the Romans, as defcendants from Antenor, Lucan': and after their conqueft by the Romans, their ancient liberty was preserved to them, on account of their bravery, Pliny. Above a thousand years ago the town was called Clarus Mons, from its fituation, Valefjus. Now Clermont, in Auvergne. E. Long. 3° 20′, Lat, 45° 42'.

ARVISIA. See ARIUSA.

ARUMA, a town of Samaria, Judges ix. 41. not far from Sichem. Called Ruma, Jerome.

ARUNDA, a town of Hifpania Baeti ca, on the Anas, or Guadiana, Ptolemy, Pliny. Now faid to be Ronda, in the province-of Granada, on the confines of Andalusia, W. Long, 5° 49′, Lat. 36° 26',

ARU

ALUPINUM, a town of the Japodes, or Japydes, a people of Illyria, Stra: bo; or Arcypium, Pliny. Another

Arupinum of Iftria, Tibullus. ARUSINI CAMPI, plains in Lucania, famous for the laft battle fought between the Romans and Pyrrhus, and the total defeat of the latter, Florus, Frontinus. Which Cluverius would read Taurafini Campi, from Taurafum, a town, which he would unwarrantably prove from Pliny, who has no fuch name, as Taurafium.

ARUZIS, a town of Media, Ptole-
my.

ARXATA, a town of Armenia Major,
fituate on the confines of Atropa-
tia, the more northern part of Me-
dia, on the Araxes, Strabo.
ARX BRITANICA, a citadel of Bata-
via, whose foundation is feen at low
water, near the old mouth of the
middle Rhine: fome imagine the
Pharos, or high tower of Caligula,
as Suetonius calls it, stood there; a
monument, he adds, of Caligula's
ham conqueft of Britain. Others,
that it was built by Drufus, with an
altar afterwards by Claudius, on his
expedition into Britain. But the
ufual paffage was from Gefforiacum,
and Suetonius exprefly fays, Clau-
dius passed over thence. The an-
cient name of this citadel, now co-
vered by the sea, is no where ex-
preffed now commonly called 't
Huis Britten, or Brittenburg, that is,
Arx Britannica, but from what au-
thority does not appear.
ARYCANDA, a town of Lycia, Stepha-
nus, Scholiaft on Pindar; probably
fituate on the river Arycandus.
ARYCANDUS, a river of Lycia, fall-
ing into the Limyrus, Pliny.
ARYMAGDUS, a river of Cilicia, Pto-
lemy; rifing in mount Taurus, and
falling into the sea, between Ane-
murium and Arfinoe.
ARYPIUM. See ARUPINUM.
ARZOS, a town of Thrace, near mount
Rhodope, Ptolemy.

of Arabia Felix, next the Perfian Gulf, Ptolemy; over-againft Armozum, a promontory of Carmania.

ARSACUs, a river in the confines of Theffaly, walking the city Heraclea, at the foot of mount Oeta, Livy; and falling into the Sinus Maliacus, Ptolemy.

ASAE, a hamlet in the territory of Corinth. Another of Thrace, Stephanus.

ASABA, or Afea, Paufanias, Afeatis, Stephanus; a town of Arcadia, in whofe territory, called Ager Afaeus, the Alpheus emerges, Paufanias. ASAMA, Ptolemy; Afana, Pliny; a river of Mauretania Tingitana, rif ing in mount Atlas, and falling into the Atlantic.

ASAN, or Afhan, a hamlet of the tribe of Judah, allotted to that of Simeon, Joshua.

ASANA. See ASAMA. ASANUM, a town of Illyrium, Peutinger.

ASAPH, Agathodaemon, or Alaphidama, a town of Chalcidene, in Syria, Ptolemy.

ASAMON, Jofephus; a mountain in the heart of the Lower Galilee, ASARAMEL, a place in Judea, mentioned Macchab.xiv. 28. ASARATH, or Affarath, a river of Mauretania Caefarienfis, Ptolemy. ASBAMEA, a fountain of Cappadocia, near Tyana, facred to Jupiter, and to an oath; and though bub. bling up, as in a ftate of boiling, yet its water was cold, and never ran over, but fell back again, Philoftratus, Ammian. Me-haffeba, Bochart; the water of an oath. ASBOTOS, a town of Theffaly, Stephanus.

ASBYSTA, a city of Cyrenaica, Stephanus. The people, Afbyftae, Dionyfius. The Cyreneans built it in their territory: hence Arburis yasa, Callimachus.

ASCA, a town of Arabia Felix, Strabo,

to the Propontis, with a fouth-eaft course, between Bifanthe and Perinthus, Ptolemy. ASAAC. See HYRCANIA. ASABORUM MONTES NIGRI, and Promontorium, fituate on the east fide

Lower Germany, fuppofed by fome to be Hildesheim, by others Herworden, in Weftphalia.

ASCALON, an ancient city, and one of the five fatrapies, or principalities of the Philistines; fituate on the

Mediterranean, Joshua, Judges, Jofephus; forty-three miles to the fouth-west of Jerusalem, Antonine ; between Azotus to the north, and Gaza to the fouth. The gentilitious name, Afcalonita, Stephanus, Jofephus, Coins, with the image of Venus Urania; to whom this city, called Oppidum Liberum, Pliny, was greatly devoted, Paufanias; whose moft ancient temple was plundered by the Scythians, Herodotus. The birth-place of Herod the Great, thence furnamed Afcalonita, Stephanus. Famous for its scallions, which take name from this town, Strabo, Pliny. Now Scalona. E. Long. 34° 30, Lat. 31° 30′.

ASCANDALIS, a town of Lycia, Pliny ; of unknown fituation. ASCANIA, a lake of Afia Minor, in Bithynia, Strabo, Ptolemy. ASCANIAE, inconfiderable islands on the coaft of Troas, Pliny; fo called from Ashkenas, the fon of Gomer. ASCANIUS LACUS, a lake of the Hither Afia, in Bithynia, Ptolemy, Strabo, Virgil; which falls into the Sinus Aftacenus, a bay of the Propontis, running from east to west. ASCIBURGIUM, Peutinger; mentioned by Tacitus, fuppofed to be one of the fifty citadels built on the Rhine, who adds, fome imagined it was built by Ulyffes. Here was a Roman camp and a garrison: to its fituation on the banks of the Rhine answers a small hamlet, now called Afburg, not far from Meurs, in the duchy of Cleves. ASCIBURGIUS MONS, Ptolemy; a mountain, which must be on the confines of Poland; because Ptolemy adds, that the people, who bordered on that mountain extended themselves to the Viftula. It is therefore that chain of mountains, that run between Silefia and Po. land, and on the fouth touching Hungary, extend to the Baltic, through the march of Brandenburg; called Tatary by the Poles. ASCII. See UMBRA.

ASCITAE, Ptolemy; a people of Ara

bia Felix, fituate on the extremity of the Perfian Gulf, to the east of the Adramitae.

ASCONIS FOSSA, a trench or cut from

the Po to Ravenna, mentioned by Jornandes.

ASCRA, a small hamlet of Boeotia, the country of Hefiod, or, as defcribed by himself, a wretched hamlet, at the foot of mount Helicon, bad in winter, incommodious in fummer, and at no season tolerable, in the territory of the Thefpienfes, about forty ftadia, or five miles from Thefpiae, Strabo; to the north west. Whither his father removed for the worfe from Cumae, of Aeolia, id. Afereus is both the gentilitious name and the epithet.

ASCRIVIUM, a town of Dalmatia, on the Sinus Rhizicus, Pliny, Ptolemy: now Cattaro, Harduin: the capital, of the territory of Cattaro, in Venetian Dalmatia. E. Long. 19° 20′, Lat. 45° 25'.

ASCULUM APULUM, a town of Apulia, much mentioned in the war with Pyrrhus, Florus, Plutarch. Now called Afcoli, a city of the Capitanata, in the kingdom of Naples. E. Long. 16° 30', Lat. 41° 15′. ASCULUM PICENUM, a town of the Piceni, Caefar; and the capital Florus; the Greeks write it Afelon, Strabo, Plutarch; but Ptolemy, Afculon, in the Roman manner; a very strong place, Strabo; a municipal town, Cicero. The gentilitious name Afculanus, Cicero, Infcription: now Afcoli, in the march of Ancona, on the river Tronto. E. Long. 15° 5′, Lat. 42° 50'.

ASCURA, a town of Armenia Major, Ptolemy.

ASCURIS, a lake of Theffaly, Livy. ASCURUM, or Afcurus, a river of Colchis, Arrian, falling into the Euxine.

ASCURUM, a town of Mauretania Tingitana, fituate at the mouth of the river Malva, on the Mediterranean, Hirtius.

ASDARA, a town of Cappadocia, Antonine.

ASDOD. See AZOTUS.

ASEA, or Afeatis. See ASAEA. ASECA, a town of Judea, in the tribe of Benjamin, to the weft of Bethlehem. Here Joshua routed the army of the five kings: and between this and Socho, the Philistines encamped when David flew Goliah; Socho,