delicia; of Noricum, Caefar; on the right or eaft fide of the Aenus; now Innftadt, in the east of Bavaria, where the Inn falls into the Danube.

See BOIEMUM.

BOIEMUM, BOIHEMUM, BOIORUM DESERTA, Strabo, Pliny; a district of Pannonia, fo called from the excifion of the Boii by the Getae, Strabo. Now the Wienerwald, Lazius, of Lower Auftria, towards Stiria, to the east of mount Cetius, or the Hahlenberg, and fouth of Vindobona, or Vienna. BOIUM, one of the Doric Tetrapolis, Strabo; though Tzetes on Lycophron makes them fix towns in number. Alfo a town of Cyrenaica, Pliny. BOLA, ae, Virgil, Stephanus; a town of the Aequi, on this fide the Anio. Bolae, arum, Diodorus Siculus, Livy; by this laft called Volae. Pliny places it in Latium, but Livy makes it a town of the Aequi, not far from Lavicum. Bolani, Pliny; the gentilitious name; but Volani, Livy : in Piiny's time extinct. BOLAGASUS, Coin; Vologefia, Ptolemy; Vologefocerta, i. e. Vologefopolis, Pliny; a town of Babylonia, to the fouth west of Babylon, towards the river Maarfares, at the distance of eighteen miles Peutinger; built by Vologefes, or Vológefus, a king of the Parthians, in Nero's and Vefpafian's time, Tacitus. BOLBE, Thucydides; a lake of Macedonia, above Chalcidice, which falls into the fea.

BOLBENE, Ptolemy; a diftrict of Ar

menia Major, to the north-west. BOLBITICUM. See BOLBITINUM. BOLBITINE, Stephanus; a town of the Lower Egypt. Now called Bel 'tin, Petrus de Vico. BOLBITINUM, Herodotus, Diodorus, Pliny, Strabo, Ptolemy; Bolbiticum, Strabo, Scylax; the fecond mouth of the Nile, reckoning from weft to eaft; fo called from the town Bolbitine. Now very fmall, and choaked up with fand, and called le Bras de Beltin, Baudrand,

BOLBULAE, arum, Pliny; islands near Ephefus.

BOLENTIUM, Ptolemy; a town of Pannonia Superior. Now Rackelfourg, in Stiria, Cluverius. E. Long. 16° 16', Lat. 47° 8'. BOLERIUM. See BELERIUM,

BOLINE, Stephanus; a town of Achaia, near Patrae; whofe inhabitants Auguftus removed to Patrae, Paufanias; in whose time therefore it was extinct.

BOLINAEUS, a river of Achaia, fo called from the town Boline, Paufanias.

BOMBUS, a river of Cilicia, Pliny. BOмI, hills of Aetolia, whose inhabitants were called Bomienfes, Stepha

nus.

BOMITAE, Pliny; a town of mount Amanus, in Syria Antiochena. Boмo, or Bohmo, Euboca, anciently fo called, Hefychius; fignifying cattle in Arabic; which perfectly agrees with the appellation, Euboea, and Agyag, Aelian. That before the Trojan war it was famous for pafture and cattle, appears from the ftory of Autolycus; and therefore at the beginning of the Peloponnefian war, the Athenians fent their flocks and herds into Euboea, Thucydides: nor are we to wonder that the island was called by an Arabic name, seeing Strabo makes the Arabians, that came with Cadmus, its most ancient inhabitants, Bochart.

BONONIA, Livy, Pliny, Velleius Paterculus; a town of Italy, in the Gallia Cifpadana; a name probably given by the Gauls, there being a Bononia in Gallia Belgica; its ancient name when in the hands of Tufcans, who were expelled by the the Gauls, was Felfina, Livy. In the year of the city five hundred and fixty-three, the Romans led a Latin colony thither, Livy, Paterculus; which, about the beginning of the Actiac war, was encreased by Auguftus, Dio; and is the Colonia Bononienfis of Tacitus. Now Bologna, capital of the Bolognefe in Italy. E. Long. 11° 46', Lat. 44° 32′. BONONIA, Ptolemy, Ammian; a town of Pannonia Inferior,between Murfa to the north-weft, and Taurinum to the east: now Bonmonfter, in Hungary. Another Bononia, Antonine; a town of Moesia Superior, on the Danube: now Bodon, in Bulgaria. E. Long. 23° 34'. Lat. 45° 10'. BONTOBRICE. See BAUDOBRICA. BOON, onis, a town and harbour of Pontus, Arrian; on the Euxine. BOONETA, orum, Paufanias; a place in the city of Sparta; formerly the refidence of king Polydorus, which being fold by his widow in exchange for oxen, was thus called: barter, in thofe early times, before the use of gold and filver, being the only method of purchase, Paufanias. BOOSCOETE, Pliny; a town on the Hellefpont, in Afia, afterwards called Germanicopolis.

BOOSURA, Strabo; a town on the west fide of Cyprus.

BORA, Livy; a mountain to the fouth of mount Haemus, in Macedonia. BORAMMA, Strabo; a den of thieves and robbers, inhabiting Libanus. BORBETOMAGUS, Ptolemy; Borbitomagus, Itinerary; corrupted in o ther Itineraries to Bormitomagus, and fill more to Protomagus; and Borgetemagus, Peutinger; in the lower age, according to cuftom, called Vangiones, from the name of the people, the o fhort in Lucan: a city of the Vangiones, on the Rhine: now Worms, a city of Germany, on the west side of the Rhine, in the Palatinate. E. Long. 8° 5, Lat. 49° 38'.

BORCHORUM, Pliny; a town Ο

the Balearis Major, or Majorca. BORCOLE, a town of Thrace, in the neighbourhood of Eumenia and Parthenopolis, Pliny.

BORCOVIUM, Notitia; a town of the Ottadini, in Britain now Berwick, Camden, on the Tweed, in Northumberland, on the borders. W. Long. 50, Lat. 56.

BOREAS, Vibius Sequefter; a mountain in the weft of Macedonia, hanging over Dyrrachium. BOREAS, the fame with what the Romans call Aquilo, Pliny, Seneca; a north east wind, Virgil, Ovid. BOREOSTOMA, atis, Pliny; one of the mouths of the Danube. BOREUM, Ptolemy; a promontory of Cyrenaica, the boundary of the Syrtis Major. In Antonine there is a Boreum, one hundred and thirtyfix miles to the weft of Berenice, which must be different from Ptolemy's, unless either author is under a mistake, which we are not to fuppofe. The author of Ptolemy's maps, from the notion of the term, Boreum, which denotes north, was induced to place both Berenice and the Boreum northwards: but all the moderns delineate that part of the Mediterranean differently, accordto whom Boreum is to be placed in the middle and not northwards, on account of the city Berenice, whofe name is ftill remaining, and to the fouth of which Ptolemy places it. Cellarius is inclined to think, that the name, if genuine, was impofed for another reason; namely, on account of the Syrtis, whofe horn, as Pliny calls it, reached fo far north, and hence Ptolemy calls it the boundary of the Syrtis. Voffius on Meia, reads Bg, becaufe fituate Eν Βρύων Αἰγιαλῶ, 2 weedy thore. Another Boreum, a promontory of Ireland, Ptolemy; in the north-west of Ulfter, in the county of Donegal, now Cape Ennis, Speed; or St. Helen's Head, more northerly, Ware. A third, Ptolemy; a promontory of Taprobane, to the north, oppofite to the Promontorium Colligicum, or Cape

Comorin.

BORIUS, a port of the island Tenedos, Arrian.

BORMANICO, Pliny; a town of the Provincia,

Provincia in Gaul, or Provence : Sanfon fuppofes it to be Bormes, now a village between St. Tropez and Hieres. BORMANUM, Ptolemy; a fmall town of Dacia, of the Jaziges Metanaftae, or Emigrant Sarmatae; not far from the river Tibifcus. BORMISCUS, Stephanus; a district of Macedonia, where Euripides the poet was torn to death by dogs. BORMITOMAGUS. See BORBETOMA

GUS.

BORSIPPA, orum, Strabo; Borfippa, ae, Stephanus; Borfippus, i, Josephus; a town of Babylonia, facred to Diana and Apollo, where a great manufacture of flax was carried on; and which was the refidence of a certain fet of Chaldeans, thence called Borfippeni, diftinct from the Orcheni, Strabo: fuppofed to be the Barfita of Ptolemy; as alfo the Hipparenum of Pliny, Harduin. BORTINA, Pliny; Burtina, Ptolemy; a town of Tarraconenfis, to the weft of Ofca, and north of Caefaraugufta, towards the Pyrenees. Suppofed to be Almuderar, Surita. BORYSTHENES, the largest river of Sarmatia Europea; thus defcribed by Mela: it runs through a cognominal people, is the moft pleasant of all the rivers of Scythia, and calmer that all of them in its course, and very agreeable to drink: it feeds very rich paftures, and produces large fish, of the best flavour, and without bones: it comes a great way, rifing from fprings unknown; its courfe is a distance of forty days, and fo far it is navigable: all this is verbally copied from Herodotus, who adds, it is the largest river, next the Ifter or Danube, the fprings of which alone and of the Nile I do not know : Ptolemy however affigns two fprings at a great distance from each other, the north in mount Budinus, and the fouth, that from which probably another river running from the west, pours into the Boryfthenes. Now called the Dnieper, or Nieper, rif ing in the heart of Mufcovy, on the confines f the duchies of Refcow and Smolensko, provinces of Mufcovy; bencing its courfe fouthwards, it forms a great many islands, and

feeds feveral thickets in its course, which greatly encumber its navigation, and at length difcharges itTelf into the Euxine between Oczacow and Sterlnicza. The Dnieper is not a very modern name, but` contracted from the Danapris of the middle age, Anonymous Author of the Periplus of the Euxine. The inhabitants on the Borysthenes, near the Euxine, are called Boryfthenidae, Pliny, Propertius; and Boryfthenitae, Herodotus, Mela.

BOSA, Pliny, Ptolemy; a town of Sardinia, on its west coast, about the middle, a little way from the mouth of the river Termus. Bofenfes, the gentilitious name, Pliny. Now called Buofa, Baudrand. BOSECUS. See VOGESUS. BOSOR. See BEZER, and BOzra.' BOSOR, a town of Gilead, 1 Maccab. v. different from Bofora, or Bezer ; was a city of the Reubenites. BOSORA. See BEZER. BOSPHORIUM, the harbour of Byzantium, Stephanus. BOSPHORUS. See BOSPORUS. BOSPORANA REGIO, for which there is no authority, only the name analogically formed from Bofporani, the people; the country on each fide the Bosporus Cimmerius; now the Straits of Caffa; part in Europe, namely, that to the weft of the Streights; and part in Afia, that to the east. Bofporani, the gentilitious name, Strabo, Ptolemy; which taken ftrictly, denotes those dwelling on the Bosporus; but in a larger fenfe, the people as far as Colchis; especially thofe fubject to the petty princes of Bofporus, and called. Afiatici, distinct from the Euroj aei,

Strabo.

BOSPORUs, a city of the Taurica Cherfonefus, Stephanus, Eutropius; Pliny fays, fome make it the fame with Panticapaeum; mentioned also by Strabo, without taking any notice of Bosporus: but Stephanus, Eutropius, and Procopius, make them two different cities, viz. Bofporus, at that extremity of the ftrait next the Euxine; the other towards the oppofite extremity. BOSPORUS CIMMERIUS, called Bofporus, becaufe fordable by a bullock, or heifer, Pliny; from the narrowness

narrowness of the ftrait; therefore | not Bofphorus; or becaufe croffed over by Io in the shape of a heifer, Mythology: fome confine this paffage to the Bosporus Thracius; others extend it to the Cimmerius alfo: it was called Cimmerius from the town Cimmerium, Pliny; inhabited by the Cimmerii, Dionyfius Periegetes; defcendants of Gomer; a strait feparating the Taurica Cherfonefus in Europe, from Sar.natia in Afia, and joining the Palus Maeotis with the Euxine, Strabo. Now called the Strait of Caffa, from a town of that name fituate on it. Bosporus Myfus, or Thracius, a ftrait fo called, because Myfia lies on the east, and Thrace on the west of it; and Arrian makes Myfius the older appellation: Herodotus calls it Bofporus Chalcedoniae, and reckons it four ftadia, or half a mile broad, others make it broader; it joins from fouth to north the Propontis with the Euxine, Strabo. Now called the Strait of Conftantinople. BOSTRA, orum, or ae, Stephanus; a town of Arabia Petraea, twenty-five miles diftant from Adraa, to the fouth-east, id. It was reckoned one of the greatest cities in Arabia, Ammian; was much adorned by Trajan in his expedition to Arabia, and called Trajana Boftra, Coins; alfo Colonia Bofra, under Alexander Severus, Coins; and Colonia Metropolis Bofira, under the emperor Philip, a native of this place, Zonaras, Aurelius Victor. Befrenus, and Boftraeus, Stephanus; the gentilitious names. BOTHNIM. See BETONIM. BOTRODUS, Martial; a grove and town of the Celtiberi, in Tarraconenfis, not far from Segobriga; the town destroyed by Tiberius Gracchus, Polybius; afterwards a village. BOTRYS, Ptolemy, Pliny; erroneoufly Boftra in Strabo; a town of Phoenicia, on the Mediterranean, built by Saturn, Philo Biblius; a proof at leaft of antiquity. Botrus, Peutinger; twelve miles to the north of Byblus, and twenty to the south of Tripolis; now almost in ruins, and called Boteron, or Botrun, Poftellus. E. Long. 37° 30', Lat. 34° 6'.

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BOVIANUM, Livy; capital of the Samnites Pentri; fituate at the foot of the Apennine, near the springs of the Tifernus: afterwards made a colony, and that double, the one called Vetus; the other furnamed from the Undecumani, Pliny, Frontinus. Bovianius, the epithet, Sil. Italicus now Boiano, a little town of the Molife, in Naples. E. Long. 15° 20′, Lat. 41° 20′. BOVIASMUM, Strabo; the palace of Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, in Bohemia; which Cluverius would choose to read Boiaemum, did the copies permit. BOVILLAE, Tacitus, Suetonius; a town of Latium, near mount Albanus Velleius fays, Milo was killed about Bovillae; Cicero ; at the foot of mount Albanus; ten miles from Rome, Peutinger; to the fouth-west, and therefore called Su• burbanus, Ovid, Propertius.

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Bovis AULA, Strabo; a place in the inland Euboea.

BOVIS AURAE FANUM, Jofephus ; the temple of the idol fet up by Jeroboam, in Dan, in the land of Galilee; below which ran the Jordan called the Lefs, Jofephus. BovIUM, Itinerary; a town of the Silures, in Britain; fifteen miles to the fouth of Ifca Silurum, or Caer-leon, in Monmouthshire; now called Cowbridge. Baudrand, Ban gor, in Carnarvonshire. Bovo. See BoA.

BOUM, Ptolemy; a town in Ethiopia beyond Egypt, on the weft fide of the Nile. BOUM SOLIS STABULA, the territory of Mylae, so called; a peninsula on

the

the east coast of Sicily, to the north of Syracufe; remarkable for its fertility and richr paftures, Theophraftus: and hence arofe the table of the oxen of the Sun feeding there, Scholiaft on Apollonius: Pliny and Seneca fay, that fomething like dung is thrown out on the coaft of Mylae, and Melana; which gave rife to the fable, of the oxen of the Sun being ftalled there: and at this day the inhabitants affirm the same thing, Cluverius.

BOUTA, Ptolemy; a town of Libya

Interior, on the weft of mount Girgiris, and towards the springs of the Cinyphus.

BOZIATA, Ptolemy; a town in the inland parts of Albania. BOZRA, Bazra, Bofra, or Bosor, a town of Arabia Petraea, in that part called Edom and Idumaea, in Scripture, Amos, Ifaiah; denoting a fortress.

BRABASTHENES, Livy; a mountain ten miles from Sparta. BRACARA, Infcriptions; in one it is Braccara; often Bracara Augufta, or in one word Eracaraugufta, Infcriptions, Pliny; a town of the Tarraconenfis, or Hither Spain: it had a conventus juridicus,or affizes, Pliny. Bracares, or Bracari, the gentilitious name, id. Now Braga, a town of Portugal, on the river Cavado, in the province of Entre Minho y Duero. W. Long. 8° 40′, Lat. 41° 20'.

BRACARII CALLAICI. See CALLAECIA.

BRACCATA. See GALLIA. BRACHEA, Stephanus; the Red Sea fo called, from the many fhoals in it. BRACHME, Ptolemy, a town of the Bramins, in the Hither India. The gentilitious name, 'Brachmanes, from Brachman, fingular, Strabo; Brachmanae, Pliny; Brachmani, Prolemy. Called by the Greeks, Gymnofophiftae; from their going naked, and enduring all weathers. A fet of wild enthufiafts rather than philofophers.

BRACHY SCII, Achilles Tatius; a people throwing a fhorter fhadow, in proportion to the fun's lefs distance from the zenith. BRADANUS, Antonine; a river of

Magna Graecia, feparating Apulia from Lucania, and falling with a fouth-east courfe into the bay of Tarentum. Now called il Eradano, in the Bafilicata of Naples : It rifes in the Apenine, between Venufia and Potentia.

BRAMMA, Ptolemy; a town of the Sinae, or Siamefe. BRANCHIDARUM ORACULUM, an oracle of Apollo, in the territory of Miletus, fo called from the family of the priests. The temple being burnt by Xerxes, the Milefians built a very large one, whofe compafs equalled that of a village, Strabo: In Mela's time the oracle was called the oracle of Didymeus Apollo, from his being a twin-brother; at the distance of twenty ftadia from the fea, Pliny. BRANNODUNUM, Notitiae; with a garrifon of the Equites Dalmatae; a town of Britain, on the Sinus Metaris now Brancefter, in Norfolk, on the Wathes, Camden. BRANOGENIUM, Ptolemy ; Branonium, Antonine; a town of the Coritani, a people in the heart of Britain: from the distances of the Itinerary, Camden fuppofes it to be Worcester. BRASIA, a town of Attica, lefs known than the Brafia, or Brafiae, of Laconica; which laft, Paufanias fays, was fo called from a jetfon of an ark or cheft, which contained Semele, and her fon Bacchus; committed to the fea by Cadmus. This ftory, Paufanias obferves, is not adopted by the other Greeks; but adds, that any thing thrown out on the fhore, is still faid, 'ExCgalai. BRATTIA, an island on the coast of Illyricum, commended for its goats, Pliny. Now la Brazza, or Braja, on the coaft of Dalmatia, in the Adriatic. BRATUSPANTIUM, Caefar; fuppofed to be the fame with Ptolemy's Catfaromagus; the former being the ancient Gaulish name, and the lat ter given it by Caefar or Auguftus: in the lower age, called Civitas Bellovacorum, and at length corrupted to Beauvais, its modern name; city of the Ille of France. E. Long. 2° 20', Lat. 49° 30′. BRAURON, onis, Strabo, Statius, Paufanias; Brauronia, ae, Mela; who

fays,