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 TROICUS MONS. ancient Troglodytae. (Vincent, Commerce and Na- vujation of the Ancients, vol. ii. p. 89.) [W. B. D.] TROICUS MOXS (TpwiKhu opos, Strab. xvii. p. 809 ; Steph. B. s. v. ; TpwiKov Kidou opos, Ptol. iv. 5. § 27), was a Ions; range of hills east of the Nile, which threw out several abrupt spurs into the Hep- tanomis of Aegypt. It stood in the parallel of HeracleopoliSji.e.in Lat.31°N. From this calcareous range was quarried, according to Strabo, the stone used in the construction of the Pyramids. [W. B. D.] TEOJA. [Ilium; Troas.] TRONIS. [Daulis, p. 756, b.] TROPAEA AUGUSTI. [Monoeci Foetus.] TROPAEA DRUSI (TpoTraia Apovaou), a trophy erected on a hill on the banks of the £lbe by Drusus, to mark the point to which he had advanced in the north of Germany. (Dion Cass. Iv.l ; Flor. iv. 12; Ptol. ii. 11. § 28, who speaks of it as if it were a town.) [L. S.] TROPAEA POMPEII (ra no^iTTTji'ou -rpoiraia, or avadriixara, Strab. iii. p. 160, iv. p. 178), a tro- phy or monument erected by Pompey on the summit of the Pyrenees, recording the subjugation of 876 Spanish cities. (Plin. iii. 3. s. 4, iv. 7.s. 27, xxxvii. 2. s. 6.) It stood at the sjiot named Summum Pyrenaeum in the Itin. Ant. (p. 397), and accord- ing to some on the boundary between Gaul and Spain. [T. H. D.] TROSMIS (TpoafjLis, Hierocl. p. 637; Tpifffiis or Tpoi(JiJ.is, Ptol. iii. 10. § 11), a town of some im- portance in Lower Jloesia, on the Danube, where, according to the Ititi. Ant. (p. 225), the Legio i. Jovia had its head quarters, though the Not. Imp. (c. 28) more correctly mentions the Legio ii. Her- culea. Lapie identifies it with Malchin. (Cf. Ovid, ex Pont. iv. 9, v. 79.) [T. H. D.] TRO'SSULUM, a town of Etruria, which, accord- ing to a story current among the Romans, was taken by a body of cavalry alone, unsupported by infantry; an exploit thought to be so singular, that the Roman knights were for some time called Trossuli on ac- count of it. (Plin. xxxiii. 2. s. 9 ; Festus, s. v. Tros- suli, p. 367.) No other mention is found of it; and it was probably a small place which had disappeared in the time ot the geographers, but Pliny tells us (?. c.) that it was situated 9 miles from Volsinii, on the side towards Rome. It is said that the name was still retained by a place called Trosso or Vado di Trosso, about 2 miles from Monte Fiascone, as late as the 17th century, but all trace of it is now lost. (Holsten. Not. ad Cluver. p. 67; Dennis's Etmria, vol. i. p. 517.) [E. H. B.] TRUENTUM. [Castrum TRUENxmuM.] TRUENTUS or TRUENTl'NUS {TpoviVTluos: Tronto), a considerable river of Picenum, which ri.ses in the Apennines above Amatrice, flows under the walls of AscoU (Asculum), and falls into the Adriatic about 5 miles S. of S. Benedetto. It gave name to a town which was situated at its mouth, and is called by Pliny Truentum, but more com- monly Castrum Truentlnum. Though one of the most considerable of the rivers of Picenum, tlie Truentus has very much the character of a moun- tain torrent, and is only navigable for about 5 miles near its mouth. (Strab. v. p. 241; Plin. iii. 1.3. s. 18; Wei. ii 4. § 6; Ptoh iii. 1. § 21.) [E. H. B.] TRUTULENSIS PORTUS. [RuTurLE.] TRYBACTRA (Tpi/SaxTpa. Ptol. vi. 12. § 6), a place to the NW. of Alexandreia Oxiana, probably represented by the present Bukluira. [V.] TUAESIS (Jovaims, Ptol. ii. 3 § 13), a town TUCCL 1237 on the F]. coast of Britannia Barbara, which stood on an estuary of the same name (Ptol. ib. § 5), now the Murray Frith. [T. H. D.] TUATI VETUS, a town in Hispania Baetica, belonging to the jurisdiction of Corduba. (Plin. iii. 3. s. 3.) Ukert (ii. pt. i. p. 370) is of opinion that it should be call Tucci Vetus. [T. H. D.] TUBANTES or TUBANTII (ToMavroi or TovSaTTioi), a German tribe which was allied with the Chernsci, and seems originally to have dwelt between the Rhine and Yessel ; but in the time of Germanicus they appear in the country south of the Lipjm, that is. the district previously occupied by the Sigambri (Ta.Q. Ann. i. 51, xiii. 55, foil.) They seem to have followed the Cherusci still farther to the south-east, as Ptolemy (ii. 11. § 23) places them on the south of the Chatti, near the Thilringer Wald, between the rivers Fulda and Wer7'a (Comji. Tac. Ger7n. 36). In the end we find them again as a member of the confederacy of the Franks. (Nazarius, Paneg. Const. 18.) The name Subattii in Strabo (vii. p. 292) is probably only an error of the transcriber, whence Kramer has changed it into lovSa-TTioi. (Wilhelm, 6'erm«?2«e«, p. 130.) [L.S.] TUBUCCI, a place in Lusitania between Scala- bris and Iilundobriga. (/im. Ant. >. 420.) Pro- bably Ahrantes. [T. H. D.] . TUBURBO MAJUS and BIINUS (@ov§ovpg^, Ptol. iv. 3. § 35), two neighbouring towns in the in- terior of By zacium. The latter is still called Tebovrba; the former is variously identified with Tubersole and Zaghoiian. Pliny (v. 4. s. 4) writes the name Tubur- bis. (//m. ylw^ pp. 44, 48; Tab. Pent.) [T.H.D.] TUBUSUPTUS (TovSomovmos, TovSovaovn- Trns, or Tov€ovannros, Ptol. iv. 2. § 31, viii. 13. § 12), a town of Mauretania Caesariensis, 18 miles SE. of Saldae. {Itin. Ant. p. 32.) According to Ammianus Marcellinus it was situated close to Mons Ferratus (xxix. 5. § 11). From Pliny (v. 2. s. 1) we learn that it was a Roman colony since the time of Augustus. It was once a place of some importance, but afterwards declined, though even at a late period it seems to have had a Roman gan'ison (Not. Imp., where it is called Tubusubdus). Va- riously iilentified with Burg, Bordj, Ticla, and a place on the Ljebel Afromi. [T. H. D.] TUCABA {TovKixSa, Ptol. iv. 6. § 25), a place in the interior of Libya. [T. H. D.] TUCCA (JoiKica, Ptol. iv. 2. § 28). 1. A town (if JIauretania Caesarien.sis. Ptolemy places it in the interior; but according to Pliny (v. 2. s. 1) it was on the sea, at the mouth of the river Ampsaga. (Cf. Tab. Pent.) 2. A town in the district of Byzacium in Africa Proper. (Ptol. iv. 3. § 32.) From inscriptions found in a village still called Diigga it may be in- ferred that the place should be more correctly called Tugga. According to the Itin. Ant. (pp. 47, 49, 5 1 ) it lay 50 miles N. of Sufetula, the modern iibailha or Sfaitla, and also bore the name of Terebentina or Terebinthina, probably from its being situated in a neighbourhood abounding with the Terebinth tree. Tuccawas a fortified town. (Procnp. de Aed. vi. 5.) It is probably the same place called Tuccabori by St. Augustin {adv. Vonut. vi. 24.) (Cf. Wessel. ad Itin. p. 48.) 3. A town of Numidia. (Ptol. iv. 3. § 29.) [T. H. I).] TUCCI (Towi/a, I'tol. ii. 4. § 11), a town of Mis- pania Baetica, between Uijila and Italica {Itin. Ant. p. 432.) According to Pliny (iii. 3. s. 3) it 4k 3