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 42 IMEUS MONS. worship of the Cabeiri and Hermes, whom the Ca- rians called Imbrasus. (Stepb. B. s. v. "l/j-Spos.) Both the island and the city of Imbros are mentioned by Homer, who gives to the former the epithet of TraiTraAoeVffT). (//. xiii. 33, xiv.281, xxiv. 78, Hi/rtm. in Apoll. 36.) The island was annexed to the Per- sian empire by Otanes, a general of Dareius, at which time it was still inhabited by Pelasgians. (Herod, v. 26.) It was afterwards colonised by the Athenians, and was no doubt taken by Bliltiades along with Lemnos. It was always regarded in later times as an ancient Athenian possession : thus the peace of Antalcidas, which declared the inde- pendence of all the Grecian states, nevertheless al- lowed the Athenians to retain possession of Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros (Xen. Hell. iv. 8. § 15, v. 1. § 31); and at the end of the war with Philip the Eo- mans restored to the same people the islands of Lemnos, Imbros, Delos, and Scyros. (Liv. xxxiii. 30.) The coins of Imbros have the common Athe- nian emblem, the head of Pallas. Imbros seems to have afforded good anchorage. The fleet of An- tiochus first sailed to Imbros. and from thence crossed over to Sciathus. (Liv. xxxv. 43.) The ship which carried Ovid into exile also anchored in the harbour of Imbros, which the poet calls '' Inibria COIN OF IMBROS. tell us." (Ov. Trist. i. 10, 18.) The island is still called by its ancient name, Evibro or Imru. IMEUS MONS, is the name given in the Tabula Peutingeriana to the mountain pass which leads from the basin of the lake Fucinus to that of the Peligni, and was traversed by the Via Valeria on the way from Alba to Corfinium. This pass, now called the Forca Carruso, must in all ages have been an imjiortant line of communication, being a natural saddle-like depression in the ridge which boimds the lake Fucinus on the E., so that the ascent from CoU A rineno (Cerfeunia) to the sum- mit of the pass (a distance of 5 miles) presents but little difficulty. The latter is the highest point reached by the line of the Valerian Way in traversing the whole breadth of Italy from one sea to the other, but is elevated only a few hundred feet above the lake Fucinus. The Eoman road across this pass was first rendered practicable for carriages by the emperor Claudius, who continued the Via Valeria from Cerfennia to the mouth of the Aternas. [Cer- FENSi.v.] {Tab. Pent.; Holstcn. Not. ad Cluv. p. 154; Kramer, i^i(cme?'5ee, pp. 14, 60.) [E.H.B.] UDIADKUS or IMilADRA, a position on the coast of GaUia Karbonensis between Telo (Toidoii) and JIassilia. The distances along the coast were doubtless accurately measured, but we cannot be cer- tain that they are accurately given in theMSS. ; and it seems that the routes, especially in the parts near the coast, have been sometimes confounded. Immadrus, the nest station east of Marseille, is placed by D'Anville, and others who follow him. at the Ish INATUS. de Maire ; but the numbers will not agree. The real distance is much less than xii. M. P., which is the distance in the Itin.; andDAnville, applying his usual remedy, alters it to vii. But Walckenaer well objects to fixing on a little island or rock as the po- sition of Immadrus, and then charging the Itinerary with beino- wrong. He finds the distance from a little bay west of Cap Morgiou to Marseille to agree with the Itin. measure of 12 II. P. [G. L.] "iMMUNDUS SINUS {a.Ka.eapros icdAiros, Strab. xvii. p. 770; Diod. iii. 39; Ptol. iv. 5. § 7; Plin. vi. 29. s. 33), the modem Foul Bay, in lat. 22° N., derived its appellation from the badness of its an- chorage, and the dLEculty of navigating vessels among its nmnerous reefs and breakers. In its furthest western recess lay the city of Berenice, founded, or rather enlarged, by Ptolemy Philadelphus, and so named by him in honour of his mother, the widow of Ptolemy Soter; and opposite its mouth was the island Opliiodes, famous alike for the reptiles which infested it, and its quarries of topaz. The latter was much employed by Aegyptian artisans for ornamenting rings, scarabaei, &c., &c. [Bere- nice.] [W. B. D.] IMUS PYRENAEUS, a station in Aquitania, at the northern base of the Pyrenees, on the road from Aquae Tarbellicae (Daa;) to Pompelon (^Pamplona) in Spain. Imus Pyrenaeus is between Carasa ( Garis) and the Summus Pyrenaeus. The Summus Pyrenaeus is the Sommet de Castel-Pinon ; and the Imus Pyrenaeus is St. Jean-Pied-de-Port, " at the foot of the pass." The distance in the Itin. between Summus PTenaens and Imus Pyrenaeus is v., which DAnville would alter to x., to fit the real dis- tance. Walckenaer takes tlie measure to be Gallic leagues, and therefore the. will be equivalent to 7^^- P. [G- L.] IN A a^lva, Ptol. : Eih. Inensis), a town of Sicily, the position of which is wholly unknown, except that Ptolemy reckons it among the inland towns in the south of the island. (Ptol. iii. 4. § 1 5.) That author is the only one of the geographers that mentions it, and the name has been thought corrupt ; but it is supported by the best JISS. of Ptolemy, and the reading " Inenses " is equally well supported in Cicero (^Verr. iii. 43), where the old editions had " Ennenses." (Zumpt, ad he.) The orator appears to rank them among the minor communities of the island which had been utterly ruined by the exactions of Verres. [E. H. B.] INACHO'RIUM Qvax<ipiov, Ptol. iii. 17. § 2), a city of Crete, which, from the similaiity of sound, Mr. Pashley {Trav. vol. ii. p. 78) is inclined to be- lieve was situated in the modern district of Enned- khorui, on the W. coast of Crete. (Hock, Kreta, vol. i. p. 379.) [E. B. J.] I'NACHUS (^Ivaxos). 1. A river of the Argeia. [Argos, p. 200, b.] 2. A river in the territory of Argos Amphilochi- cum. [Argos Ajiphiloch., p. 208, b.] INAUDIE. [Aenaria.] I'NATUS Clvaros, Ptol. iii. 17. § 2), a city of Crete, the same, no doubt, as Einatus (^EtuaTos, Steph. B.; Hesych. Eti/m. Magn. s. v.), situated on a mountain and river of the same name. The Peu- tinger Table puts a place called Inata on a river 24 M. P. E. of Lisia, and 32 M. P. W. of Hierapjtna. These distances agree well with the three or four hamlets known by the name Kasteliam, derived from the Venetian fortress. Castle Belvedere, situ- ated on a hill a little to the N. of the villages. The