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 1332 UXELLODUNUM. (Thsolu made by M. Covnuau, at the request of Turcot does not correspond to the description in the GaUic War, for the river Tourmente washes only one of the four sides of this hill; he also says, that nothing appears easier than to turn the river towards the west on the north side of the town, and to pre- vent its course being continued to the south. But the author of the eighth book of the Gallic War says that Caesar could not deprive the defenders of TJsellodunum of the water of the river by diverting its course, " for the river flowed at the very foot of the heights of Uxellodununi, and could not be drawn off in any direction by sinking ditches." There is a plan of Capdenac in Caylus' Antiqidtes (torn. v. pi. 100, p. 280), and Walckenaer observes that this also corresponds very imperfectly with the de- scription. The researches of ChampoUion (^Nou- velks Jiecherches sur Uxellodunurn), which are cited by Walckenaer, appeared in 1820. Walcke- naer makes some objection to Capdenac, on grounds ■which are not very strong. He says that the Lot is above 300 feet wide where it surrounds Capdenac, and one cannot conceive how archers placed on one bank could have prevented the besieged from getting water on the other side. If the archers and slingers were on the river in boats or rafts, which is likely enough, this objection is answered, even if it be true that an archer or slinger could not kill a man at the dis- tance of 300 feet. Walckenaer makes some other objections to Capdenac, but they are mainly founded on a misunderstanding or a perversion of the Latin text. It is possible that we have not yet found Uxello- dunum, but a journey along the banks of the Lot, for that is more probably the river, might lead to the discovery of this interesting site of Caesar's last great military operation in GalHa. The position of the place, the attack, and the defence, are well de- scribed ; and it cannot be difficult to recognise the site, if a man should see it before his eyes. Nothing could be easier to recognise than Alesia. It is im- possible for any man to doubt about the site of Alesia who has seen Alise [Mandubii]. In the case of LTsellodunum, we have not the help of a cor- responding modern name, unless it be a place not yet discovered. [G. L.] UXELLODUNUM, a station on the wall of Ha- drian in Britannia Eomana, where the Cohors I. Eoinanorum was in garrison (Not. Imj).). Probably Brough. [T. H. D.] UXELLUM (Ovi^iWov, Ptol. ii. 3. § 8), a town of the JSelgovae in Britannia Barbara. Camden (p. 1193) takes it to have been on the river Eiise in Eustdale ; wiiilsl Horsley (p. 366) identifies it with Caerlaverock near JJumfries. [T. H. D.] UXENTUM {Ov^fVTov,Vio.: £/A. Usentinus: Ugento), a town of Calabria, in the territory of the Sallentines, situated about 5 miles from the sea- coast, and 16 from the lapygian Promontory {Capo di Leuca). It is mentioned by both Pliny and Ptolemy among the inland towns which they assign to the Sallentines, and is placed by the Tabula on the road from Tarentum to the extremity of the peninsula. (Plin. iii. 11. s. 16; Ptol. iii. 1. § 76; Tab. Pent.) The name is corruptly written in the Tabula Uhintum, and in Pliny the MSS. give Ulentini, for wiiich the older editors had substituted Valentini. Hence Ptolemy is the only authority for the form of the name (though there is no doubt that the place meant is in all cases the same); and as coins have the Greek legend OZAN, it is doubtful XANTHUS. wliether Uxentum or Uzentnm is the more correct form. The site is clearly marked by the modern town of Ugento, and the ruins of the ancient city were still risible in the days of Galateo at the foot of the hill on which it stands. (Galateo, de Sit. lapyg. p. 100; Romanelli, vol. ii. p. 43.) JIany tombs also have been found there, in which coins, vases, and inscriptions in the Messapian dialect have been discovered. [E. H. B.] COIX OF UXENTUM. UXENTUS (t5 Ovl^vTov, Ptol. vii. 1. §§ 24, 76), a chain of mountains in the Deccan of India, between hit. 22° and 24° and long. 136° and 143°, pro- bably those called Gondwana. They formed the watershed of several rivers which flowed into the Bay oj Bengal, as the Adamas, Dosaron and Tyndis. [V.] U'XH (ptjli.01, An'mw, Anab. iii. 17; IStrab. xi. p. .524, XV. pp. 729, 744), a tribe of ancient Persis, who lived on the northern borders of that province between Persis and Susiana, to the E. of the Pasi- tigris and to the W. of the Oroatis. They were visited by Alexander the Great on his way from Susa; and their capital town, Uxia (Strab. xv. p. 744), was the scene of a celebrated siege, the details of which are given by Arrian and Curtius. It has been a matter of considerable discussion where this city was situated. The whole question has been carefully examined by the Baron de Bode, who has personally visited the localities he describes. {Geogr. Journ. xiii. pp. 108 — 1 10.) He thinks Uxia is at present represented by the ruins near BkikaJ'tohi- Suleimdn in the Bakhtgari jIountains, to the E. of Shuster. [V.] UZ, a district of Western Asia, to which the prophet Job belonged. {Job, i. 1.) It cannot be certainly determined where it was; hence, learned men have placed it in very different localities. Winer, who has examined the question, inclines to place it in the neighbourhond of Edom, adjoining Arabia andChaldaea. {Biblisch. Realworterb. s. v. Uz.) The people are perhaps represented in clas- sical geography by the Avcrlrai or AiVn-ai of Pto- lemy (v. 19. § 2), a tribe who lived on the borders of Babylonia. In Genesis x. 23, Uz is called the son of Aram : hence Josephus says, Oiiaos Kri^ei ■Tr]v Tpaxo}viTLV Kal Aafxaandv {Antiq. i. 6. § 4); but there is no sufiicient evidence to show that the " land of Uz " of Job is connected with Northern Mesopotamia. [V.] UZITA {Ov^na, or Ov^iKa, Ptol. iv. 3. § 37), a town of Byzacium in Africa Propria, lying S. of Hadrumetum and Euspina, and W. of Thysdrus. (Cf. Hirt. B. Afr. 41, 51.) [T. H. D.] XANTHUS (Hareos: Eth.'Edvetos), the greatest and most celebrated city of Lycia, was situated according to Strabo (xiv. p. 666) at a distance of 70 stadia from the mouth of the liver Xanthus. and according to the Stadiasinus (§ 247) only 60 stadia. Pliny (v. 28) states the distance at 15 Roman miles,