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 STALIOCAXUS PORTUS. and Agde, separated from the land by a Ions;, narrow, Hat, which widens near Cetie, where the Mons Setius is. These lagunes are the E' tangs de Tau, de Fron- tifjnan, de Maguelone, and others. Avienus {Or. Marit. 58) menlions the Taurus or E'tang de Tau: " Taurum paludem namque gentiles vocant." [FEC^'I JuGUM; Ledus]. [G. L.] STALIOCA'NUS TORTUS {S.iryXioKavhs i- jUTJf). Ptolemy (ii. 8. § 2) places this port between Gobaeum Promontorium [Gobaecm] and the mouth of the Tetus, on the coast of Gallia Lugdunensis. D'Anville {Notice, tfc.) found in a manuscript plan of the Anse du Conquet the name of Port Sliocan, N. of Cap Malie, at the bottom of the road of Loo- Christ. Lobineau in his History of Bretagne says that the name means White Tower, and that there were traces of a port there, constructed of brick and cement. Gosselin places the Staliocanns on the N. coajit of Bretagne, at the outlet of the river on which Morlaix stands. It is impossible to deter- mine which of the numerous bays on this irregular coast is Ptolemy's Staliocanus. [G. L.] STANACUM, a place in Noricum, on the road leading along the Danube from Augusta Vindeli- corum to Carnuntum and Vindobona. {It. Ant. p. 249 ; Tab. Pcut.) Its exact site is uncertain. (^Conip. JIuchar, Xori/atm, i. p. 285.) [L. S.] STATIELLI (SraTieWoi), a tribe of Ligurians, who inhabited the northern slopes of the Apennines, on both sides of the valley of the Bormida. Their locality is clearly fixed by that of the town of Aquae Statiellae, now Acqui, which grew up under the Roman Empire from a mere watering place into a large and populous town, and the chief place of the surrounding district. The Statielli are mentioned by Livy in B.C. 173, as an independent tribe, who were attacked by the Roman consul, M. Popillius: after defeating them in the field, he attacked and took their city, which Livy calls Carystus, and, not content with disarming them, sold the captives as slaves. This proceeding was severely arraigned at Rome by the tribunes, especially on the ground that tilt Statielli had previously been uniformly faithful to the Roman alliance; but they did not succeed in enforcing reparation (Liv. xlii. 7, 8, 9, 21). Livy writes the name Statiellates, while Decimus Brutus, who crossed their territory on his march from Mu- tina, B. c. 44, and addresses one of his letters to Cicero from thence, dates it " finibus Statiellensium" (Gic. ad Fam. xi. 11). Pliny, who enumerates tiieni among the tribes of Ligurians existing in his time, calls them Statielli, and their chief town Aquae Statiellorum (Plin. iii. 5. s. 7). The site of Carystu.s, mentioned only by Livy, in the passage above cited, is wholly unknown. [E. II. B.J STATO'NIA (Srarwt'ia : Eth. Statoniensis), a town of Southern Etruria, which is mentioned by Strabo among the smaller towns {iroXixva-i) in that part of Italy. (Strab. v. p. 226.) Pliny also mentions the Statones among the municipalities of Etruria (iii. 5. s. 8), but neither author affords any nearer clue to its situation. We learn, hovpever, that it was celebrated for its wine, which was one of the most noted of those grown in Etruria (Plin. xiv. ♦'). s. 8), and that there were valuable stone-quarries in its territory. (Vitruv. ii. 7. § 3.) From the terms in which Vitruvius speaks of these, it seems probable that the district of Statonia, which he calls " praufeclura Statoniensis," adjoined that of Tar- quinii ; and both 1,'liiiy and Seneca allude to the STELLATIS CAMPUS. 10.35 existence of a lake " in agro Statoniensi," in which there were floating islands. (Plin. ii. 95. s. 96; Senec. N. Q. iii. 25.) This can hardly be any other tlian the small Logo di Afezzano, a few miles W. of the more extensive Logo di Bohena: we must there- fore probably look for Statonia between this and Tarqniiiii. But within this space sevei-al sites have been indicated as possessing traces of ancient liabi- tation; among others, Farnese and Castro, the last of which is regarded by Cluver as the site of Sta- tonia, and has as plausible a claim as any other. But there is nothing really to decide the pniiit. (Cluver, Ital. p. 517; Dennis's Etrurin. vol. i. pp. 463 468.) [E. H. B.] STATUAS (AD), the name of two places in Pannonia, one of which was situated on the Danube, a little to the west of Bregetio {It. Ant. p. 246; Notit. Imp.), and the other further south- east, in the neighbourhood of Alisca and Alta Ripa {It. Ant. p. 244), which Muchar {Norikum, i. p. 264) identifies with Szekszard. [L. S.] STATUAS (AD), a town in the territory of the Contestani in Hispania Tarraconensis. {I tin. Ant. p. 400.) Variously identified with Adsaneta and Xativa or S. Felipe. [T. H. I).] STAVAXI {'S.ravavoi, Ptol. iii. 5. § 25), a people in European Sarmatia, at the N. foot of Mons Bo- dinus. Ukert (iii. 2. § 435) conjectures that we should read 'Zravavoi, that is, Slavi, and seeks them on the Dunii and the Ilmensee. [T. H. D.] STECTO'RIUM {-ZriHTdptov. Eth.^TeKroprii'Ss), a town of Phrygia, between Peltae and Synnada. (Ptol. V. 2. § 25; Paus x. 27. § 1.) Kiejiert (in Franz's Fiinf Inschriften, p. 36) identifies it with the modern Afijum Karahissar. (Comp. Sestini, Niim. Vet. p. 126.) [L. S.] STEI'RIA. [Attica, p. 332, a.] STELAE (2t7JAoi, Steph. B. s. v.), a Cretan city which is descrilied by the Byzantine geographer as being near two towns, which are called, in the pub- lished editions of his work, Paraesus and Riii- thymna. In Mr. Pashley's map the site is fixed at the Mohammedan village of Philippn on the route from Kasteliand (Inatus) to Ilugliias Dlicka (Gortyna). [E. B. J.] STELLA'TIS CAMPUS was the name given to a part of the rich plain of Campania, the limits of which cannot be clearly determined, but which appears to have adjoined the " Falernus ager," and to have been situated likewise to the N. of the Vulturnus. Livy mentions it more than once during the wars of the Romans with the Sanniitcs (ix. 44, X. 31), and again during the Second Punic War, when Hannibal found himself there by an error of his guides (Liv. xxii. 13). From his expressions it would appear to have adjoined the " Calenus ager," and apparently was the part of the plain lying between Cales and the Vulturnus. It was a part of the public lands of the Roman people, wjiicli the tribune Rullus proposed by his agrarian law to panel out among the pnorei citizens (Cic. de Leg. Agr. i. 7. ii. 31): this was for the time successfully opposed by Cicero, but the me;isure was canied into effect a few years later by the agrarian law of Caesar, passed in liis consulship, b. c. 59 (Suet. Cae.t. 20). The statement of Suetonius that the district thus named was previously regarded by the Romans as con.se- crated, is clearly negatived by the language of Cicero in the passages just referred to. The name of Stel- latinus Ager .seems to have been given to a district in cjuite another part of Italy, forming a part of the