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 MAUPJ. side of Zalacus, Mazices (Ma(i(cej); and S., up to the GAitAPm M., Bantukakii (BauTovpapioi); still further to the S., between Garapiii M. and CiNNABA M., Aquensii (^AKovi}vaioi), Myceni (Muicfjvoi'), and Maccukae (Ma/cKoOpoi) ; and below them, in the S., on the N. spurs of Cinnaba, Enabasi {'EvdSacroi) ; W. of these, between Ga- raphi JI. and Durdus M., Nacjiusii (NaKfinvaioi), Elulii ('HAouAjoi), and Tolotae (ToAaJrai); N. of these and Durdus M., Dkyitae (ApDiTai); then SoKAK {2upaL); and on the V. of the Machusii, Taladusii (TaAoSouffioi). The Heupkdit.vni (^'Epirfonavoi) extended into II. Mauketania TiNGiTANA (Ptol. iv. 1. §§ 10—12); to the S. of tliem, the Maurensii (Mavpyuffiut); toward the SW., Vacuatae (OuaKovuTai), B^vniubae (Ba- viovSai); then, advancing to the N., Zegrensii (Zeypvvcnot), Nectiberes (NeKT(grjpe$), Jan- gacjcani {'lauyavKauoi), Voi.ubiliani {OvaSiKi- avoi), Verves (^Ouepovels), and Socossii (Sco/cocr- tri'oi), upon the coast ; to the W., the Metago- NiTAE (J^eTaywf'tTai) ; and to the S. of them, IVLvsicES (Md(7iK6s), and Verbicae or Verbices (Oiiepg//cot al. Oi'ipSiKis'); to the S. and to the W. of the VoLUBiLiAA'i, Sallnsae (5aA,iV(Tai) and Cauni (Kauvoi); still further to the S., to the Little Atlas, Bacuatae (BoKoeaToi) and JMaca- NiTAE (MaKavnai). [E. B. J.) ]IAUKI, MAURUSII. [Mauret.u>(ia.j MAURIA'NA. [Marlniana.] MAriilTA'NIA. [iMauretania.] MAXE'RA (Ma|7jpa, Ptol. vi. 9. § 2; Amm. JIarc. xsiii. 6), a river of Hyrcania, which flowed into the Caspian sea. Pliny calls it the Maxeras (vi. 16. s. 18). It is not certain with which modern river it is to be identified, and geographers have variously given it to the Tedjin, the Babul, or the Gurgan. If Ammianus, who speaks of it in con- nection with the Oxus, could be depended on, it would appear most probable that it was either the Atreh or the Gurgan. The people dwelling along this river were called Maserae. (Ptol. vi. 9. § 5.) [V.] MAXILU'A (MaliAoCa, Ptol. ii. 4. § 13), a town in Hispania Baetica, which, like Calentum, was celebrated for its manufacture of a sort of bricks light enough to swim on water. (Plin. xxxv. 14. s. 49 ; comp. Strab. xiii. p. 615; Vitruv. ii. .3; Schneider, ad Eel. Phys. p. 88.) It wa.s probably situated in the Sierra Morena. (Florez, Esp. Sagr. xii. p. 259.) JIAXIMIANO'POLIS (Ma^iniapovTroi^), a town of Thrace, formerly called Impara or Pyrsoalis (It. Ant. p. 331), not far from Rhodope (Amm. Marc, xxvii. 4), and the lake Bistouis (Melet. p. 439, 2; It. Ilieros. p. 603; Hierocl. p. 634; Const. Porph. de Them. ii. 1 ; Procop. de Aed. iv. 11; Cone. Chal. p. 96.) [A. L.] MAXIMIANO'POLIS. [Constantia.] aiAXIMIANO'POLIS (Ma^^mi/rfTroAis), the classical appellation of the Scriptural Hadadrimmon {ZechariaJi, xii. 11) in the plain of Jlegiddo, 17 M. P. from Caesareia (of Palestine), and 10 M. P. from Jezreel, according to the Jerasalem Itinerary ; consistently with which notice St. Jerome writes : — " Adadrcmmom, pro quo LXX. transtulerunt Poio- vos, urbs est juxta Je.sraeleni, quae hoc olim vocabulo nuncupata est, et hodie vocatur Maximianopolis in Campo Mageddon" {Comm. in Zachar. I.e.); and again, — '■ diximus JeSraelem, (juae nunc juxta Maxi- mianopolin est " (m Bos. 1). It is placed iu the civil MAZARA. 290 and ecclesiastical division of I'alaestina Secnnda, and its bishop assisted at the Council of Nicaea. (Keland Palaestinn, -p^p. 891,892.) [G.W.] MAXU'LA (Ma^oDAa, Ptol. iv. 3. § 7), a R<iiiian " colonia " (Maxulla, Plin. v. 3), about the exact distance of which from Carthage there is a consi- derable discrepancy in the Itineraries {Anton, /tin.- Pent. Tab.). From an expression of Victor Vitcnsis (de Persecut. Vandal, i. 5. § 6), who calls it " Li- gula," ''a tongue of land," its pasition was probably on the coast, between R 'ddes and Hammdm-el-EuJ] where there are the remains of a Roman road. The Coast-describer (Stadiasm.) speaks of the harbour and town of Maxyla as 20 stadia from Crapis, or the modern Garbos: this was probably different from the former, and is the modern Mrisa, where there are the remains of a town and harbour. (Shaw, Trav. p. 157; Barth, Wandeiningen^p. 128.) As connected with the gentile epithet Maxyes or Blazyes, it is likely that there were several places of this name. Ptolemy (iv. 3. § 34) has JLvxui.A Vetus (Ma|oi;Ao UaXata), and the Antonine Itinerary a station which it describes as Maxula Prates, 20 M. P. from Carthage. It is found in the Notitia, and was famous in the annals of Mar- tyrology (Augustin, Serm. c. Ixxxiii ; Morcelli, Africa Christiana, vol. i. p. 220.) [E. B. J.] BIAXYES (Ma|u6s, Herod, iv. 191, where the name .should be Ma^ues ; see Maup.etania, p. 297, a.), a Libyan tribe, and a branch of the nomad Au- senses. Herodotus {I. c.) places them on the " other side," i. e. the W. bank, of the river Triton : reclaimed from nomad life, they were " tillers ol the earth, and accustomed to live in houses." They still, however, retained some relics of their former customs, as " they suffer the hair on the right side of their heads to grow, but shave the left ; they paint their bodies with red-lead : " remains of this custom of wearing the hair are still preserved among the Tuaryks, their mcxlern descendants. (Hornemann, Trav. p. 109.) They were probably the same people as those mentioned by Justin (xviii. 7), and chilled Maxytani, whose king is said to have been Hiarbas {Wrg.Aen. iv. 36, 196, 326), and to have desired Dido for his wife. (Heeren, African Nations, vol. i. p. 34, trans. ; Eennell, Geog. of Eerod. vol. ii. p. 303.) [E. B. J.] MAZACA. [Caesareia, Vol. I. p. 469, b.] MAZAEI (Ma^oLoi), a Pannonian tribe, occu- pying the southernmost part of Pannonia, on the frontiers of Dalmatia, whence Dion Cassius (Iv. 32) calls them a Dalmatian people. They were c<jnquered and severely treated by Germanicus. (Strab. vii. p. 314; Plin. iii. 26; Ptol. ii. 16. § 8.) [L. S.] MAZARA (Ma'Capa, Diod. ; Ma^apTj, Steph. B.: Mazzara), a town on the SW. coast of Sicily, situ- ated at the mouth of a river of the same name, be- tween Selinus and Lilyi)aeum. It was in early times an inconsiderable place, and is first noticed by Diodorus in li. €. 409, as an emporium at the mouth of the river Mazarus. (Diod. xiii. 54.) It was evidently at this time a dependency of Sulimis, and was taken by tlie Carthaginian general Han- nibal, during his advance upon that city. (Diod. /. c.) Stcphanus of Byzantium calls it " a Ibrt of the Selinuntiiics" (fpovpiou SeAij/owTiW, Stoph. B. 5. v.), and it is mentioned again in the First Punic War as a fortress which was wrested by tho Romans from the Carlhaginians. (Diod. xxiii. 9. p. 503.)