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 205 MATILO. Araxes, -which is giving thein too extended a range from N. to S. (i. 189, 202). [V.] MATILO, ill Gallia Belgica, is ph-K'ed by the Table on a route wliicb ran from Lugdunum {Leiden) along the Rhine. The first place from Lugdunum is Praetorium Agrippinae (Roombnrg), and the next is Matilo, supposed to be RlnjnenhHrg. [G. L.] MATI'LICA {Eth. Matilicas, -fitis : Matillca), a municipal town of Umbria, situated in the Apen- nines, near the sources of the Aesis, and close to the confines of Picenum. It is mentioned both by Pliny and the Liber Coloniarum, of which the latter in- cludes it among the " Civitatcs Piceni." Towards the close of the Roman Empire it appears as an epis- copal see, included in the province then termed " Picenum Suburbicarium." (Plin. iii. 14. s. 19 ; Lib. Colon, p. 257 ; Bingham's Ecd. Antiq. book ix. ch. 5. § 4.) Maiilica is still a considerable town, and retains the ancient site as well as name. [E. H. B.j MATINUS MONS. [Garganus.] MATISCO, a place in Gallia Celtica, in the ter- ritory of the Aedui in Caesar's time, and on the Saone. (5. G. vii. 90.) After the capture of Alesia, b. c. 52, Caesar placed P. Sulpicius at Slatisco with a legion during the winter, to look after the supply of corn for the army. (5. G. viii. 4.) The position of Matisco is fixed by the name, its site on the river, and the Itins. The name, it is said, was written Mastico by a transposition of the letters; and from this form came the name Mascon, and by a common change, Macon. The form Mastisco occurs ill the Table. (D' Anville, A^o^jce, tf-c.) [G. L.] MATITAE. ;;Nigeik.] BIA'TIUM, a maritime city of Crete, next to the E. of Apiillonia in Pliny's list (iv. 12), and opposite to the island of Dia, — " Contra Matium Dia " (J. c). 'J'he modern Megdlo- Kaslron occupies the ancient .Mte. (Pashley, Trav. vol. i. pp. 172, 261; HiJck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 12, 403.) [E. B. J.] MATKICEM, AD, a considerable town in Illyri- cum, which the Peutinger Table places between Bis- tue Vetus and Bistue Nova, 20 INL P. from the former, and 25 M. P. from the latter. It must be identical with Mostar, the chief town oi Herzegovina, standing on both banks of the Narenta, connected by the beautiful bridge for which it has always been celebrated. The towers of this bridge are, ac- cording to tradition, on Roman substructions, and its construction is attributed to Trajan, or, accord- ing to some, Hadrian. The word " most" " star," signifies " old bridge." (Wilkinson, Dalmatia, vol. ii. pp. 57 — 63 ; Neigebaur, Die Sud-Slaven, p. 127.) ' [E. B. J.] MATRI'NUS (JAarfitvoi), a river of Picenum, flowing into the Adriatic, now called La Pioinha. Strabo describes it as flowing from the city of Adri;i,, Ijut it is in reality intermediate between Adria {Atri) and Angulus(Cu'itoiS'. ^IJi^refo). According to the same writer it had a town of the same name at its mouth, which served as the port of Adria. (Strab. V. p. 241.) Ptolemy also mentions the mouth of the river Matrinus next to that of the Aternus, from which it is distant about 6 miles (Ptol. iii. 1. § 20), but he is certainly in error in assigninj; it to the Marrucini. [E. H. B.] MATRONA or MATRONAE MONS is the name given by later Latin writers to the j)ass of the M described in some detail by Ammianus, from wliom MAURETANIA. it appears that the name was applied only to the higher part, or actual pass of the mountain : and this is confirmed by the Jerusalem Itinerary, which gives the name of Alpes Cottiae to the whole pass from Ebrodunum {Embrun) to Segusio, and con- fines that of Matrona to the actual mountain be- tween Brigantia {Brianqmi) and Gesdao {Cesanne). {Kin. Hier. p. 556 ; Amm. xv. 10. § 6.) [E. H. B.] I^IA'TRONA. [Sequana.] MATTIACI, a German tribe, perhaps a branch of the Chatti, their eastern neighbours, probably occupied the modern duchy of Nassau, between the rivers LaJm, Main, and Rhine. They are not men- tioned in histoiy until the time of the emperor Clau- dius; they then became entirely subject to the Romans (Tac. Germ. 29), who built fortresses and worked the silver mines in their country. (Tac. Ann. xi. 20.) In A. D. 70, during the insurrection of Civilis, the Mattiaci, in conjunction with the Chatti and other tribes, besieged the Roman garrison at Moguntiacimi {Mayence : Tac. Hist. iv. 37) ; and after this event they disappear from liistory, their country being occupied by the Alemanni. In the Notitia Imperii, however, Mattiaci are still men- tioned among the Palatine legions, and in connection with the cohorts of the Batavi. The country of the Mattiaci was and still is veiy remarkable for its many hot- springs, and the "Aquae Mattiacae," the modern Wiesbaden, are repeatedly referred to by the Romans. (Plin. xxxi. 1 7 ; Amm. Marc. xxix. 4 ; Aquae Mattiacae.) From Martial (xiv. 27 : jIattiacae Pilae) we learn that the Romans imported from the country of the Mattiaci balls or cakes of soap to dye grey hairs. The name Mattiaci is pro- bably derived from matte, a meadow, and ach, sig- nifying water or bath. (Comp. Orelli, Inscript. Nos. 4977 and 4983 ; Zeuss, Lie Deutschen, p. 98, foil.) [L. S.] MATTIACUM {yiaTriaKov), a town in the north of the country of the IIattiaci. (Ptol. ii. 1 1. § 29.) Some writers believe this town to be the same as the Mattium mentioned by Tacitus {Ann. i. 56), as the capital of the Chatti, which was set on fire in A. D. 15, during the war of Germanicus. But a careful examination of the passage in Tacitus shows that this cannot be ; and that Mattiacum is pro- bably the modern town of Marburg on the Lahn (Logana), whereas Mattium is the modem Maden, on the right bank of the Eder (Adrana). (Comp. Wilhelm, Germanien, p. 188.) [L. S] MATTIUM. [Mattiacum.] MATUSARUM. [Lusitania, p. 220, a.l MAURALI. [NiGEiR.] MAURENSII. [Mauretania.] MAURETA'NIA, the NW. coast of Africa, now known as the Empire of Murocco, Fez, and part of Algeria, or the Mogh'rib-al-alcza (furthest west) of the natiTes. I. Name, Limits, and Inhabitants. This district, which was separated on the E. from Numidia, by the river Ampsaga, and on the S. from Gaetulia, by the snowy range of the Atlas, was washed upon the N. coast by the Jlediterranean, and on the W. by the Atlantic. From the earliest times it was occupied by a people whom the ancients dis- tinguished by the name Maurusii {Mavpovaiuv, Strab. i. p. 5, iii. pp. 131, 137, xvii. pp. 825, 827; Liv. xxiv. 49; Virg. Aen. iv. 206; Mavprivcioi, Ptol. iv. 1. § 11) or JIauri {Mavpoi, " Blacks," in the Alexandrian dialect, Pans. i. 33. § 5, viii. 43.