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 1020 SOLI. of its waters. (Vitruv. viii. 3; Antig. Cnryst. 150; Plin. I. c.) Pliny (xsxi. 2) mentions bituminous .springs in the vicinity, which are reported by lleaufort to e.ist at Bikhardi), about six hours' walk to the north-east of Meseflu. [L. S.] SOLI or SOLOE (2oAoi, Ptol. v. 14. § 4), an important seaport town in the W. part of tlie N. I'oast of Cyprus, situated on a .small river. (Strab. xiv. p. 683.) According to Plutarch (Sol. 26) it was founded by a native prince at the suggestion of Solon and named in honour of that legislator. The sojourn (if Solon in Cyprus is mentioned by He- rodotus (v. 1 1 3). Other accounts, however, make it an Athenian settlement, founded under the auspices of Plialerus and Acamas (Strab. I. c), or of Demophon, the son of Theseus (Piut. I. c). We learn from Strabo (/. c.) that it had a temple of Aphrodite and one of Isis; and from Galen (rZe Simj). Med. ix. 3, 8) that there were mines in its neighbourhood. The inhabitants were called Solii (SoAioi). to distinguish them from the citizens of Soli in Cilicia, who were called SoAejs (Diog. Laert. V. Sokm, 4). According to Pococke (ii. p. 323), the valley which surrounded the city is still called Solea; and the ruins of the town itself may he traced in the village of Alyora. (Comp. Aesch. Pers. 889; Scyl. p. 41; Stadiasm. M. Magni, § 295, seq.; Const. Porphvr. de Them. i. p. 39, Lips.; Hierocl. p. 707, &c.)". [T. H. D.] SOLIA. [AuAE Hksperi.] SOLlCrXlUiM, a town in the Agri Decumates, in South-western Germany, on Mount Pirns, where Vaientinian in a. d. 369 gained a victory over the Alemanni. (Amm. JIarc. xxvii. 10, xxviii. 2, xsx. 7.) A variety of conjectures have been made to identify the site of the town, but there are no positive criteria to arrive at any satisfactory con- clusion. [L. S.] SOLIMARIACA, in Gallia, is placed in the Antonine Itin. on the road from Andomatunum (^Langres) to Tullum Leucorum (Tout), and nearly half-way between Mosa (Meiise) and Tullum. There is a place named Scndosse, which in name and in jiosition agrees with Solimarlaca. " The trace of the Roman road is still marked in several places by its elevation, both on this side of Soulosse and beyond it on the road to Toul." (D'Anville, A'oi/ce, , Ptol. >-ii.4. § 6), a harbour near the SE. corner of Taprobane (^Ceylon). It has been conjectured by Forhiger that it is the ])resent Vendelusbai, — a name we do not discover on the best maps. Its position, south of the Malea mountains (Adam's Peak), is certain. [V.] SOLIS PROMONTO'RIUM (Upa 'HKiov &Kpa), " Sacra soils extrema," a promontory of the east coast of Arabia at the south of the Persian gulf, between the mouth of the river Lar and Rhegma, in the country of the Nariti. (Ptol. vi. 7. § 14.) [Lar; Rhegma.] [G.W.] SO'LLIUM (Sf^AAior: Eth. 2oAA(€w), a town on the coast of Acarnania, on the Ionian sea. SOLONIUS ACER. Its exact site is uncertain, but it was probably in the neighbourhood of Palaerus, which lay between Leucas and Aiyzia. [Palaerus.] Leake, however, places it S. of Aiyzia, at Stravolimiuna (i. e. Pwt Stravo). Sollium was a Corinthian colony, and as such was taken by the Athenians in the first year of the Peloponnesian War (b. c. 431), who gave both the place and its territory to Palaerus. It is again mentioned in b. c. 426. as the place at which Demosthenes landed when he resolved to invade Aetolia. (Thuc, ii. 30. iii. 95, comp. v. 30; Stepli. B. s.v. Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 18, seq.) SOLMISSUS (2oA;Uio-o-ds), a hill near Ephesus, rising above tlie grove of Leto, where the Curetes, by the loud noise of their arms, prevented Hera from hearing the cries of Leto when she gave birth to her twins. (Strab. xiv. p. 640.) [L. S.] SOLOJIATIS {S.oXdfia.Tis, Arrian, hid. c. 4), a river named by Arrian as one of the feeders of the Ganges. There has been much diflference of opinion as to what modern stream this name represents. Mannert thinks that it is one of the affluents of the Jumna (v. pt. i. p. 69); while Benfey, on the other hand, considers it not unlikely that under the name of Solomatis lurks the Indian Sarasvdti or Sarsooti, which, owing to its being lost in the sands, is fabled by the Indians to flow under the earth to the s})ot where the Ganges and Jumna join, near Allaha- bad. (Benfey, art. Indien, in Ersch wid Gruher, p. 4.) _ [V.] SOLO'NA {Eth. Solonas: Cdta del Sole), a town of Gallia Cispadana, mentioned only by Pliny among the municipal towns of the 8th region (Plin. iii. 15. s. 20), but the name of the Solonates is found also in an inscription, which confirms its municipal rank (Gruter, Inscr. p. 1095. 2). Unfortunately this inscription, which was found at Ariminum, afl'ords no clue to the site of Solona : it is placed conjecturally by Cluver at a place called Citta del Sole about 5 miles SW. of Forli: but this site would seem too close to the important town of Forum Livii. (Cluver. Ital. -p. 291.) [E. H. B.] SOLO'XIUM CZoK'Lviov), in Gallia Xarbonensis, where C. Pomptinus defeated the Allobroges, b. c. 61. (Dion Cass, xxxvii. c. 48; Liv. £);i7. 1 03, where it is said, " C. Pontinius Praetor Allobroges qui re- bellaverant ad Salonem (Solonem ?) domuit.") It has been conjectured that Solonium is Sallonaz, in the department of Ain, near the small river Brivas ; but this is merely a guess. The narrative of Dion is useless, as usual, for determining anything with precision. Other guesses have been made about the position of Solonium ; one of which is too absurd to mention. [G. L.] SOLO'NIUS AGEE (%od>viov, Pint.), was the name given to a district or tract in the plain of Latium, which appears to have bordered on the ter- ritories of Ostia, Ardea, and Lanuvium. But there is some difficulty in determining its precise situation or limits. Cicero in a passage in which he speaks of a prodigy that happened to the infant Roscius, places it " in Solonio, qui est campus agri Lanu- vini" (de Div. i. 36); but there are some rea.sons to suspect the last words to be an interpolation. On the other hand, Livy speaks of the Antiates as making incursions "in agrum Ostiensem, Ardeatem, Solonium" (m. 12). Plutarch mentions that Jla- rius retired to a villa that he possessed there, when he was expelled from Rome in n. c 88 ; and from thence repaired to Ostia. (Plut. Mar. 35.) But