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 ZIRIDAVA. Cannel, which probably took its name from Ziph. {Josh. XV. 14.) Stepb. Byz. notices it, quoting from Joseplius. [Sirii.] [V.] ZIIilDAVA (ZtpiSava, Ptol. iii. 8. § 8), a town in Dacia, most probably Szereka on the Broosch (cf. Katancsich, /s<?-{ ^ccofce, ii. p. 296). [T.H.D.] ZIKINAE (Tab. Fcut; Zeiptvia, Stepli. B. p. 287 : Zeniae, with various readings, in Jt. Ant. p. 322), a town in Thrace, on the Hebnis, between Trajano- poliij and Plotinopolis. Eeichard places it on the .^iie of Zernits ; but Lapie identities it with Te.rma- lilza. [J. K.] ZITHA, or ZEITHA (Zei'te, Ptol. v. 18. § 6), a small place in Mesopotamia near the Euphrates, no- ticed by Ptolemy. It is in all probability the same as the Sitha of Zosimus (iii. 1.5). [V.] ZITHA {Zuda, Ptol. iv. 3. § 12), a promontory in Africa Propria between the two Syrtes and W. of Sabathra. On it lay the place called Pons Zitha. [T. H. D.] ZOARA (Zodpa, Steph. B. s. v.), a small town at the southern end of the Lacus Asphaltites in Judaea, to which Lot escaped from the burning of Sodom. {Gen. xiv. 2, 8, xix. 22.) Josephus, in describing the same lake, states that it extends fJ-^XP'- '^'odpuv 'Apa€ias (iv. c. 27). During the latter times of the Roman Empire, there was a guard maintained in that part of the country, a corps of native mounted bowmen (" Equites sagittarii Indigenae Zoarae"), who were under the command of the Dux Palaes- tin.ae. {N^otit. Iinper.') [V.J ZOELAE, a town of the Astures in Hispania Tarraconensis, not far from the sea, and noted for the cultivation of flax. (Plin. iii. 3. s. 4, xix. 1. s. 2; comp. Florez, Esp. Sagr. xvi. p. 17; Inscr. in Span. Misc. p. 278. 3 ; Orelli, no. 156.) [T.H.D.] ZOE'TIA. [Megalopolis, p. 3U9, b.] ZOMBIS (Zo^gis, Steph. B. s. v.), a sm.-dl place in Upper Media, noticed by Ammianus (xxiii. 6). [V.] ZONE (Plin. iv. 11. s. 18 ; Mela, ii. 2. § 8 ; Zoii/r). Herodot. vii. 59 ; Scyl. p. 27 ; Steph. B. p. 291 ; Schol. Nicand. Ther. 462 ; Schol. Apoll. Rhod. i. 29), a town on the S. coast of Thrace, on a promontory of the same name, a short distance to the V. of the entrance of the Lacus Stentoris. According to Apollonius and Mela {II. cc.) it was to this place that the woods followed Orpheus, when set in motion by his wondrous music. [J. R.] ZORAMBUS (Z&ipd^gos), a small stream on the coast of Gedrosia, mentioned by Marcian {Peripl. c. 29, ed. Miiller), called Zorambes by Ptolemy (vi. 8. § 9). [V.] ZORLANAE {Tah. Pent. ; in Geng. Rav. v. 12, Strolauae), a place in Thrace, on the road from Sira- cellae to Aenus. [J. R.] ZOROANDA (Plin. vi. 27. s. 31), a place on the range of Mount Taurus, where the Tigris fell into a cavern, and reappeared on the other side of the mountain; perhaps the spot discovered by Rich, 11 leagues from Julumerik, where an eastern tributary of the Tign's suddenly falls into a chasm in the mountain. (Rich, A'oorcZ/itaw, i. p. 378; cf Ritter, Erdk. X. p. 86, seq.; D'Anville, I'Etiphr. et le Tigre, p. 74.) [J. R.] ZOSTER. [Attica, p. 330, b.] ZUCHAI5BARI {Zwxaigapi, Ptol. iv. 3. § 20), a mountain at the S. borders of the Rcgio Syr- tica. [T. II. D.] ZYMETHUS. 1339 ZUCHABBARL [Succabar.] ZUCHIS (ZuCxis, Strab. xvii. p. 835), a lake 400 stadia long, with a town of the same name upon it, in Liby,a,not far from the Lesser Syrtis. Slepluiuus B. (p. 290) mentions only the town, which, accord- ing to Strabo, was noted for its purple dyes and salt fish. It seems to be the place called Xoi/f/s by Ptolemy (iv. 3. § 41.) [T. H. D.] ZUGAR {Zuvyap, Ptol. iv. 3. § 40), a town of Africa Propria, between the rivers Ba^radas and 'Wton. ^ ['£ H. D.] ZUMI {ZovixoC), a German tribe occupying a district in the neighbourhood "of the Lugii, are men- tioned by Strabo (vii. p. 209), the only author that notices them, as having been subdued by Marobo- du^is- [L. S.] ZUPHONES(Zoi;4)coc6f,Diod.xx.3S),aNuniidian tribe in the vicinity of Carthage. [T. H. D.] ZURMENTUM {Zovp/xevTov, Ptol. iv. 3. § 37), a town of Byzacium, in Africa Propria, lying to the S. of Hadrunietum. [T. II. D.] ZUROBARA {Zovp6§apa, Ptol iii. 8. § 9), a town of Dacia, situated where the Marosch falls into the Theiss. [T. H. D.] ZUSIDAVA {Zoval^ava, Ptol. iii. 8. § 8), a town of Dacia, probably on the site of the ruins called Tschetaiie de Pvimint, below Burlau (cf Ukert, iii. pt. ii. p. 621). [T. H. D.] ZYDRE'TAE (ZuSpijToi or ZuSpetraf, Arrian, Peripl. Pont. Eux. p. 11), a people of Colchis, on the coast of the Pontus Euxinus, on the S. side of the Phasis, and between the Maclielones and the Lazi. [T. H. D.] ZYGANTIS {ZvyavTis, Hecat. Fr. ap. Steph. B. p. 290), a town of Libya, whose inhabitants were noted for their preparation of honey. Hence Klausen {ad Hecat. p. 134) identifies them with the Gyzantes of Herodotus (iv. 194), on the W. side of the lake Tritonis, of whom that historian relates the same thinsr. [T. H. D.] ZYGENSES {Zvyfis, Ptol. iv. 5. § 22), a people on the coast of the Libyan Nomos in Jlarma- rica. [T. H. D.] ZYGI {Zvyul, Strab. xi. p. 496), a wild and savage people on the Pontus Euxinus in Asiatic Sarmatia, and on the heights stretching from the Caucasus to the Cimmerian Bosporus. They were partly nomad shepherds, partly brigands and jiirates, for which latter vocation they had shi]is specially adapted (cf Id. ii. 129, xi. 492, xvii. 839). Ste- plianus B. (p. 290) saj's that they also bore the name of Zvypiavui and we find the firm Zygii {Zuyioi) in Dionysius {Perieg. 687) and Avicnus {Descrip. Orb. 871). [T. H. I).] ZYGOl'OLIS {'S,vy6noKii, Strab. xii. ji. .'•)48), a town ill Pontus, in the ncighbouriiood of CoU-liis. Stejihanus B. (p. 290) conjectures that it was in the territory of the Zygi, which, however, does not agree with Strabo's description. [T. II. D.] ZYGRIS {^/.vyp'is, I'tol. iv. 5. § 4), a village on the coast of the Libyan Nomos in Marmarica, which seems to have given name to the people called Zvgrilae dwelling there {Zuyp'nai. i'tol. ih. § 22.) [T. II. 1).] ZYGRITAE. [Zygius.] ZYMETHUS (Zi'MTjflos, Ptol.iv. 4. § 1 O, a town in the interior uf Cyrenaica. [T. II. D.J