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 1082 TAB ALA. (p. 689) distinctly enumerates it ainoni; the Cariun towns. ^ Davas is a large and well-built town, and the capital of a considerable district; the governor's residence stands on a height overlooking the town, and commanding a most magnificent view. (Kichter, Waltfahrten, p. 543; Franz, Fimf Inschrlfttn, p! 30.) •" -^ '^ It should be observed that Tliny (v. 27) mentions another town in Cilicia of the name of Tabae, of vliich, however, nothing is known. [L. S.] TACAI'E. COIN OF TABAE. TABALA {TiSaXa), a town of Lydia near the river Hermus, is known only from coins found in the country; but it is no doubt the same as the one mentioned by Hierocles (p. 670) under the name of Gabala, which is perhaps only miswritten for Tabala. It is even possible that it may be the town of Tabae which Steph.anus Byz. assigns to Lydia. Some trace of the ancient place seems to be preserveil in the name of the village Tonhaili on the left bank of the Hermus, between Adala and Kula. [L. S.] TABANA {TdSava, Ptol. iii. 6. § 6), a place in the interior of the Chersonesus Taurica. [T.H.D.] TABASSI (TaSao-o-ot, Ptol. vii. 1. § 65), a tribe ot Indians who ocupied the interior of the southern part of Ilindostan, in the neighbourhood of the jiresent province of Mysore. Their exact position cannot be determined, but they were not far distant from J/. Bettigo, the most S. of the W. Ghats. They derived their name from the Sanscrit Tapay'n, " woods." (Lassen, Tnd. Alterth. vol. i. p. 243.) [V.] TABEKNAE, in Gallia, is placed by the Itinera- ries betyeen Noviomagus (Sjyeiej-) and Saletio(5efc). The position of Tabernae is supposed to correspond to that of Rheimabern. Tabernae is mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus (xvi. 2), unless in this pas- sage he means another place (No. 2) which has the same name. 2. Between Argentoratum (•S'fras^iMr/;) and Divo- durum (Metz) is Elsatz-Zahern, or Sunerm as the J''rench call it, which is about 21 miles immStrass- hiirg. This seems to be the place which Ammianus (xvi. 11) calls Tres Tabernae. When Julian was marching against the Alemanni, who were encamped near Argentoratum, he repaired Tres Tabernae, for the purpose of preventing the Germans from entering Gallia by this pass in the Vosges. Ammianus (xvi. 1 2) also gives the distance from Tres Tabernae to the German camp at Argentoratum at 14 " leugae," which is 21 Roman miles, and agrees veiywell with the distance between Sememe and Strassburg (D'An- vilie. Notice, cj'c). 3. Tabernae is mentioned by Ausonius (Mosella, V. 8) on the road between Bingiiim {Bingen) and Noviomagus (A'e!«raa(7e7*); but the geogiaphers are not agreed about the position, whether it is Bergza- hern, a place which is out of the way, Baldenau, or Berncastel on the Mosel. Ausonius says there is a spring there : — " Praetereo arentem sitientibus undique terris Dumnissum riguasque perenni fonte Tabernas." [G. L.] TABIE'NI (Ta€cnyoi, Ptol. vi. 14. § 11), a people in the N. part of Scythia, on this side of 'the ''"■'u^^- [T.H.D.j TABIE'NI. {Taeinvoi), an Acthiopian tribe, situated NW of the Begio Troglodytica, near the headland of Bazium {Rus-elNaschef), mentioned by Ptolemy alone (iv. 27. § 28). [W. B. I).] TABLAE, in Gallia, is marked in the Table be- tween Lugdunum Batavorum {Leiden) and Novio- magus {Nymegen). D'Anville and others suppose It to be Alblas, a little above the junction of the Leek and the Maas, and opposite to Dnrt. [G. L.] TABOR, a celebrated mountain in Galilee, called by the Greek writers Atabyrium, under which name it is described. [Atabyrium.] TABRACA. [Thabkaca.] TABUDA, or TABULLAS in some editions of Ptolemy (ii. 9. § 3). a river of North Gallia. The mouth of this river is placed by Ptolemy between Gesoriacum {Boulogne) and the mouth of the Jlosa {Mnas). ^ In another passage (ii. 9. § 9), after fixing the position of the Morini, whose towns were Geso- riacum and Taruanna, he adds, " Then after the TabuUas are the Tungri." All these indications seem to show that the Tabuda or Tabullas is the Schelde, which would be correctly placed between the Morini and the Tungri. Ortelius, cited by D'Anville and others, is said to have produced evidence from writings of the middle ages, that the Schelde was named Tabul and Tabula. [G. L.l TABURNUS MONS {Monte Taburno), was the name given in ancient times to one of the most im- portant mountain groups of the Apennines of Sam- nium. It is situated nearly due W. of Beneventum, between the valley of the Calor {Colore) and that of the smaller stream of the Isclero. Like the still more elevated mass of the JIfonte Matese, which fronts It on the N., it forms no part of the main chain of the Apennines (if that be reckoned, as usual, by the line of water-shed), but is considerably advanced to- wards the W., and its W.and NW.slopes consequently descend at once to the broad valley or plain of the Vulturnus, where that river receives its tributary the Calor. It is evidently these slopes and underfalls to which Virgil alludes as affording a favourable field for the cultivation of olives (Virg. Geo7-g. ii. 38; Vib. Sequest. p. 33), with which they are covered at this day. But in another passage he alludes to the " lofty Taburnus " as covered with forests, which afforded pasture to extensive herds of cattle. (Id. Aen. xii. 715.) Gratius Faliscus also speaks of it as a rugged and rocky group of moun- tains {Cyneget. 509). We learn from that writer that it was included in the territory of the Caudine Samnites [Caudini], and indeed the celebrated pass of the Caudine Forks w;is at a very short dis- tance from the foot of Mount Taburnus. The name of Monte Taburno or Taburo is still commonly ap- plied to the whole group, though the different sum- mits, like those of the Matese, have each their peculiar name. There is no ground for reading (as has been sug- gested) Tagvpvov upos for Aigypj/oj/ upos, in Poly- bius, iii. 100); the mountain of which that author IS speaking must have been situated in quite a dif- ferent part of Italy. rj.]. jj. yi TACAPE {TaKdnv or Kc^Trrj, Ptol. iv. 3. § 11), a town in the Roman province of Africa, in the Regio Syrtica and in the innermost part of the Syrtis Minor. The surrounding country is represented by Pliny (xvi. 27. s. 50, xviii. 22. s. 51) as exceedingly