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 692 RAMATHAIM-ZOPHIM RAMATHAIM-ZOPHIM. [Ramatiia.] EAMBA'CIA ('Pa^gaxi'a, Arrian, Anab. y'l. 21), a village of the Oritae, the first which was taken by Alexander the Great in his march westwards from the Indus. There can be no certainty as to its exact position, but the conjecture of Vincent seems well grounded that it is either the Ram-nagar or the Ram-(jur of the Ayin Ahbari. (Vincent, Voyage of Nearchus, vol. i. p. 18.5.) [V.] EAME, a place in Gallia Narbonensis, which the Itins. fix on the road between Embrodunum {Em- bmri) and Brigantium (Briangon). D'Anville says that there is a place called Jiame on this road near the Durance,, on the same side as Emhrun and Bri- anqon, and at a point where a torrent named Biesse joins the Durance. [G. L.] RAMISTA or REMISTA. a place in Upper Pan- nonia, on the road running along the river Savus to Siscia {It. Hieros.-^. 561 ; Geogr. Eav. iv. 19; Tab. Petit.) Its site has not yet been ascertained with certainty. [L. S.] RAMOTH, identical in signification with RSm and Kamah, equivalent in Hebrew to " an emi- nence," and hence a generic name for towns situ- ated on remarkable heights, as so many in Palestine were. Besides those above named [Eamah; Ra- BiATii.v] was a Eamah in the tribe of A.sher, not far from Tyre; and another in Naphthali (Josh. xix. 29, 36) in the north; and a Eamath in the tribe of Simeon, appropriately called " Eamath of the South " (ver. 8.), to which David sent a share of the spoils of Ziklag (1 Sam. xxx. 27). and yet a Eamoth in Issachar, assigned to the Levites of the family of Gershom. (1 C/wore. vi. 74.) More im- portant than the foregoinc was — EAJIGTH-GILEAD 'Va,xioe iu TaAoaS), a city of the tribe of Gad, assigned as a city of refuge, first by Moses and subsequently by Joshua. (Deut. iv. 43; Josh. xx. 8, ^Aprjfiwd.) It was also a Le- vitical city of the family of Merari. {Josh. xxi. 38.) The Syrians took it from Aliab, who lost his life in seeking to recover it. (1 Kings, xxii.) Eusebius places it 15 miles west of Philadelphia {Onomast. s. v., where S. Jerome erroneously reads east; Ee- land, p. 966), in the Peraea, near the river Jaboh. Its site is uncertain, and has not been recovered in modern times. [G. W.] EANILUM, a town in the interior of Thrace. {Tab. Pent.) [T. H. D.] EAPHANAEA ('Pa<^ai'aia). a maritime town of Syria, only once named by Jo-ephus, who states that the Sabbatic river flowed between Arcaea and Eaphanaea. (fi. J. vii. 5. § 1.) [Sabba- TICL'S.] [G. W.] EAPHIA ('Pa(|)i'a, 'Pct^eio), a maritime city in the extreme south of Palestine, between Gaza .and Ehinocorura, a day's march from both, reckoned by Josephus, Polybius, and others, as the first city of Syria. (Joseph. B. J. iv. 11. § 5; Polyb. v. 80.) It was taken from the Egyptians by Alexander Jannaeus, and held by the Jews for some time. It was one of the ruined and depopulated cities restored by Gabinius. {Ant. xiii. 13. § 3, 15. § 4, xiv. 5. § 3.) It is mentioned also by Strabo (xvi. p. 759) and in the Itinerary of Antoninus, between the above- named towns. Coins of Eaphia still exist, and it was represented by its bishop in the council of Epliesus, and in tho.^e of Constantinople, A. d. 536 and 553. (Reland, s. v. pp. 967, 968 ; Le Quien, Oriens Chris- tianits, vol. iii. pp. 629, 630.) It was in the neigh. bourhood of this city that a great battle was fought RATIATUM. between Ptolemy Philopator and Antiochus the Great, in which the latter w.as routed with immense loss. (3 Maccab. i. 2 ; Polyb. v. 80, &c. ; Hieron. ad Dan. cap. xi.) Its site is still marked by the name Re/ah, and two ancient granite columns in situ, with several prostrate fragments, the remains apparently of a temple of considerable magnitude. (Irby and Mangles' Journal, October 8.) [G. W.] EAPPIA'NA, a town on the river Margus in Moesia Superior, now Alexinitza. {Itin. Jlieros. p. 566.) [T. H. D.] EAPRAUA ('Poirpowa, Marcian, Peri/)?, ii. § 32, ed. Miiller), a small place on the coast of Gedrosia, between the river Arabis and the Portus Mulierum. It is probably the same as that called by Ptolemy Eagirava {'Vayipava, vi. 21. § 2). It may be doubted whether it can now be recognised, unless indeed the name has been preserved in that of Arabat, a bay in the immediate neighbourhood. (See Muller, ad Arrian. Indie. § 26.) [V.] EAEA'PIA {Itin. Ant. p. 426, where the reading varies between Scalacia, Serapia, Sarapia, and Ea- rapia), a town of Lusitania, on the road from Osso- noba to Ebora, and 95 miles N. of the former place; now Ferreira. (Comp. Florez. Esp. Sagr. xiv. p. 202.) [T. H. D.] EAEASSA {'Papaaraa or 'Hpapatra, Ptol. vii. 1, § 50), a place which Ptolemy calls the metropolis of the Caspeiraei in India intra Gangem. Its exact situation cannot be determined ; but there can be no doubt that it was in Western India, not far from the Vindya Ms. Lassen places it a little S. of Ajmir. [V.] EA'SENA. [ETRuraA, pp. 855, 859.) RATAE {Itin. Ant. pp. 477, 479: 'Pare, Ptol. ii. 3. § 20, where some re.ad 'Pa76), a town of the Coritani in the interior of Britannia Romana, and on the road from London to Lincoln. It is called Eatecorion in the Geogr. Eav. (v. 31). Camden (p. 537) identifies it with Leicester. [T. H. D.] EATA'NEUM (Plin. iii. 22. s. 26; 'VaWivov, Dion Cass. Ivi. 11), a town of Dalmatia, which was bumt by its inhabitants, when it was taken by Ger- manicus in the reign of Augustus. (Dion Cass. /. c.) EATIA'EIA {^VixTiapia, Procop. de Aed. iv. 6, p. 290 ; 'PaTiapi'a MvaSiv, Ptol. iii. 9. § 4, viii. 1 1. § 5; 'Pafapi'a, Hierocl. p. 655; 'Parr/p/a, Theophy- lact. i. 8 ; Ratiaris. Geogr. Rav. iv. 7), a considerable town in Moesia Superior on the Danube, and the head-quarters of a Roman legion; according to the Itinerary (p. 219), the Leg. xiv. Gemiuji, according to the Not. Imp. (c. 30), the Leg. xiii. Gemina. It was also the station of a fleet on the Danube {ibid.). Usually identified with Arzar-Palanca. [T. H. D.] RATIA'TUM ('PaTiaTOf), a town of the Pictones (Ptol. ii. 7.§ 6). Ptolemy mentions it before Limo- num, and places it north of Limonum, and further west. Some editions of Ptolemy place Eatiatum in the territory of the Lemovices, but this is a mistake. In the records of a council held at Orleans in A. D. 511, the bishop of the Pictavi signs himself " de civitate Eatiatica." The name was preserved in that of the Pagus Eatiatensis, from which comes the modern name of Pays de Retz. Gregory of Tours speaks of Eatiatum as " infra terminum Pictavorum qui adjacet civitati Namnetic.ae." The district of Retz was taken from the diocese of Poitiers and attached to the diocese of Na7ites in the time of Charles the Bald. Belley {Mem. de VAcad. des Inscript. torn. xix. p. 729) fixes Eatiatum at the site of the two churches of St. Pierre and St. Op-