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 TEAEI JULIENSES. Calvi (Cales). The most important are those of an ampbitheatre and a theatre, situated near the Via Latina ; but numerous remains of other buildings are found scattered over a considerable space, though for the most part in imperfect preservation. They are all constructed of brick, and in the reticulated style, and may therefore probably be all referred to the period of the Roman Empire. Numerous in- scriptions have also been found, as well as coins, vases, intaglios, &c., all tending to confirm the ac- count given by Strabo of its ancient prosperity. (Romanelli, vol. iii. p. 4.56 ; Hoare's Class. Tour, vol. i. pp.249 — 264; Mommsen, /?wcr. iE. iV. pp. 208, 209). At a short distance from Teano are some mineral springs, now called Le Caldarelle, which are evi- dently the same with the " aquae acidulae,'' men- tioned both by Pliny and Vitruvius as existing near Teanum. (Plin. xxxi. 2. s. 5 ; Vitruv. viii. 3. § 1 7.) The remains of some ancient buildings, called II Bagno Nuovo, are still visible on the spot. [E. H. B.] TECELIA. 1117 COIN OF TEANUM SIDICINUM. TEARIJULIENSES, the inhabitantsofatownof the ilercaones in Hi.spania Tarraconensis (Plin. iii. 3. § 4). It is called by Ptolemy TiaptovAia, and is probably the modern Trayguera. [T. H. D.] TEAKUS (Plin. iv. 11. s. 18; T4apos, Herod, iv. 90), now Teare, Deara, or Dere. a river in the SE. of Tiu-ace, flowing in a SW. direction, until it joins the Contadesdos, their united waters falling into the Agrianes, one of the principal eastern tributaries of the Hebrus. Herodotus (J., c.) states that the sources of the Teams are equidistant from Heraeum on the Propontis and Apollonia on the Euxine; that they are thirty-eiglit in number; and that, though tlioy all issue from the same rock, some of them are cold, others warm. Their waters had the reputation, an I'lng the neighbouring people, of being pre-eminently niedicinal, especially in cases of itch or mange (yi(ipr). On his inarch towards the Danube, Da- rius halted his army for three days at the sources of the Teams, and erected a pillar there, with an in- scription commemorative of their virtues, and of his own. [J. E.] TEA'TE (Tf area, Strab. Ptol.: £•//«. Teatin us: Chie.li), the ciiief city of the Marmcini, was situated on a hill about 3 miles from the river Ateraus, and 8 from the Adriatic. All the ancient geographers concur in representing it as the metropolis or capital city of the tribe (Strab. v. p. 241; Plin. iii. 12. s. 17: Ptol. iii. 1. § 60); and Silius Italicus re- peatedly notices it with the epithets "great" and "illustrious" ("magnum Teate," Sil. Ital. viii. 520: Clamm Teate, Id. xvii. 453); but, notwith- standing this, we find no mention of it in his- tory. Inscriptions, however, as well as existing remains, concur in proving it to have been a flourishing and important town under the Roman dominion. It was apparently the only municipal town in the land of the JJarrucini, and lience the limits of its municipal district seem to have coincided with those of that people. We learn from the Liber Culoniarum that it received a body of colonists under Augustus, but it did not bear the title of a colony, and is uniformly styled in inscriptions a municipium. (Lib. Colon, p. 258 ; Orell. hiscr. 2175, 3853; Mommsen, hiscr. R.N. pp. 278, 279.) It derived additional splendour in the early days of the Empire from being the native place of Asinius Pollio, the celebrated statesman and orator; indeed the whole family of the Asinii seem to have derived their origin from Teate. Herius Asinius was the leader of ihe JIarrucini in the Social War, and a brother of the orator is called by Catullus " Marrucine Asini." (Liv. Fjnt. Ixxiii. ; Catull. 12. 1.) The family of theVettii also, to which belonged the Vettius Marcellus mentioned by Pliny (ii. 83. s. 85), appears to have belonged to Teate. (Mommsen, I.e. 5311.) The Itineraries place Teate on the Via Valeria, though from the position of the town, on a hill to the right of the valley of the Aternus, the road must have made a considerable ditour in order to reach it. {Itin. Ant. p. 310; Tab. Pent.) Its name is al.so noticed by P. Diaconus (ii. 20), and there seems no doubt that it continued throughout the middle ages to be a place of importance, and the cajiital of the surrounding district. Chietl is si ill one of the most considerable cities in this part of Italy, with above 14,000 inhabitants, and is the see of an archbishop. Still existing remains prove that the .ancient city occupied the same site as the modern Chieti, on a long ridge of hill stretching from N. to S., though it must have been con- siderably more extensive. Of these the most im- portant are the ruins of a theatre, which must have been of large size ; those of a large edifice supposed to have been a reservoir for water, and two temples, now converted into churches. One of these, now the church of S. Paolo, and considered, but without any authority, as a temple of Hercules, was erected by the Vettius Marcellus above noticed; the other, from the name of Sta Maria del Tri- cafjUo which it bears, has been conjectured to have been dedicated to Diana Trivia. All these edifices, from the style of their construction, belong to the early period of the Roman Empire. Besides these, numerous mosaics and other works of art liave beoa discovered on the site, which attest the flourishing condition of Teate during the first two centuries of the Christian era. (Romanelli, vol. iii. pp. 104 — 109; Craven, ^irajjj, vol. ii.pp. 8,9.) [E.H.B.] COIN OF TEATE. TEBENDA (Tegei-Sa), a town in the interior of Pontus Galaticus (Ptol. v. 6. § 9), is no doubt the same as the Tebenna nicntidUcd by Anna Conmena (p. 3G4, b.) ;u> situated in the vicinity of Tra- pezus. [L. S.] TECE'LIA (TeKfAi'o), a town placed by Ptolemy