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 INTEMELII. Ingilene Cl77jXi^»'»j), the name of a small province of Armenia near the sources of the Tigris mentioned by Epiphanius (Jhieres. LX. vol. i. p. 505, ed Valesius; comp. St. Martin, Mem. sur VArmenie, vol. i. pp. 23, 97.) [E. B. J.] INTEME'LII ('Irre^eAioi), a maritime people of Liguria, situ.ated to the W. of the Ingauni, at the foot of the Maritime Alps. They are but little known in hi-story, being only once mentioned by Livy, in conjunction with their neighbours, the In- gauni, as addicted to piratical habits, to repress which their coast was visited by a Roman squadron in B. c. 180. (Liv. .xl. 41.) Strabo speaks of them as a still existing tribe (Strab. iv. p. 202); and their capital, called Albium Intemelium or Albinteme- liu:n. now corrupted into VintimigVia, was in his time a considerable city. [Alisu'.m iNTiiMELiUJi.] We have no means of determining the extent or limits of their territory; but it seems to have bor- dered on that of the Ingauni on the E., and the Ve- diantii on the W. : at least, these are the only tribes mentioned as existing in this part of Liguria by writers of the Roman Empire. It probably com- prised also the whole valley of the Rutcb.a. or Roja, one of the most considerable of the rivers, or rather mountain torrents, of Liguria, which rises at the foot of the Col di Tenda, and falls into the sea at Vintimiglia. [E. H. B.j INTEKAMNA Qlvrfpajxva: Eth. Intcramnas, -atis), was the name of several cities in different parts of Italy. Its obvious etymol 'gy, already pointed out by Varro and Festus, indicates their position at the confluence of two streams (" inter amnes," Varr. L. L. V.28, Eest. V. Amnes, p. 17,Iliiil.); which is,however, but partially borne out by their actual situation. The form Intkuamnium (^IvT^pa.fj.viuv'), and the ethnic form Interanmis, are also found, but more rarely. 1. A Roman colony on the banks of the Lins, thence called, for distinction's sake, Interamxa Li- RiNAS. It was situated on the left or northern bank of the Liris, near the junction of the little river which flows by Aquinum (confounded by Strabo with the Melpis, a much more considerable stream), and was distant 6 miles from the latter city, and 7 from Casinum. Its teiTitory, which was included in Latium, according to the more ex- tended use of that name, must have originally belonged to the Volscians, but we have no men- tion of Interamna as a Volscian city, nor indeed any evidence of its existence previous to the establish- ment of the Roman colony there, in b. c. 312. This took place at the same time with that at the neigh- bouring town of Casinum, the object of both being obviously to secure the fertile valley C)f the Liris from the attacks of the Samnites. (Liv. ix. 28; Diod. six. 105; Veil. Pat. i. 14.) Hence we find, in b. c. 294, the territory of Interamna ravaged by the Sam- nites, who did not, however, venture to attack the city itself; and, at the opening of the following cam- paign, it was from Interamna that the consul Sp. Car- vilius commenced his operations against Samnium. (Liv. X. 36, 39.) Its territory was at a later period laid waste by Hannibal during his march by the Via Latina from Capua upon Rome, B. C. 212 (Liv. sxvi. 9): and shortly afterwards the name of Interamna appears among the twelve refractoiy colonies which declared themselves unable to furnish any further supplies, and were subsequently (b. c. 204) loaded with heavier burdens in consequence (Id. xxvii. 9, xxix. 1 5). After the Social War it passed, in com- mon with the other Latin colonies, into the state of INTERAMNA. 55 a mnnicipium; and we find repeated mention of it as a municipal town, apparently of some consequence. (Cic. Phil. ii. 41, pro Mil. 17; Strab. v. p. 237; Plin. iii. 5. s. 9.) It received a colony under the Second Triumvirate, but does not appear to have en- joyed colonial rank, several inscriptions of imperial times giving it only the title of a municipium. (^Lib. Col. p. 234; Orell. Inscr. 2357, 3828.) Its po.si- tion at some distance from the line of the Via Latina was probably unfavourable to its prosperity in later times: from the same cause its name is not found in the Itineraries, and we have no means of tracing its existence after the fall of the Roman Empire. The period at which it was ruined or deserted is unknown ; but mention is found in documents of the middle ages of a " Castrum Teranie," and the site of the ancient city, though now entirely uninhabited, is still called Terame. It presents extensive remains of ancient buildings, with vestiges of the walls, streets, and aqueducts; and numerous inscriptions and other objects of antiquity have been discovered theie, which are preserved in the neighbouring villages. (Romanelli, vol. iii. p. 384; Cluver, Jtal. p. 1039. The inscriptions are given by Jlommsen, Inscr. liegn. Neap. pp. 221,222.) Pliny calls the citizens of this Interamna " Inter- amnates Succasini, qui et Lirinates vocantur." The former appellation was evidently bestowed from their situation in the neighbourhood of Casinum, but is not adopted by any other author. They are called in inscriptions " Interanmates Lirinates," and some- times "Lirinates" alone: hence it is probable that we should read "Lirinatum" for '■ Larinatum " in Silius Italicus (viii. 402), where he is enumerating Volscian cities, and hence the mention of Larinum would be wholly out of place. 2. {Terni), a city of Unibria, situated on the river Nar, a little below its confluence with the Velinus, and about 8 miles E. from Narnia. It was sur- rounded by a branch of the river, so as to be in fact situated on an island, whence it dei'ived its name. The inhabitants are termed by Pliny " Interanmates cognomine Nartes," to distinguish them from those of the other towns of the name; and we find them designated in inscriptions as Interamnates Nartes and Nahartes; but we do not find this epithet applied to the city itself. No mention is found of Interamna in history previous to its passing under the Roman yoke ; but there is no doubt that it was an ancient Umbrian city, and an inscription of the time of Ti- berius has preserved to us the local tradition that it was founded in b. c. 672, or rather more than 80 years after Rome. (Orell. hiscr. 689.) When we first hear of Interamna in history it appears as a flourishing municipal town, deriving great wealth from the fertility of its territory, which was irrigated by the river Nar. Hence it is said to have been, as early as the civil wars of Jlarius and Sulla, one of the " florentissima Italiae munieipia " (Florus, iii. 21); and though it suffered a severe blow upon that occasion, its lands being confiscated by Sulla and portioned out among his soldiers, we still find it mentioned by Cicero in a manner that proves it to have been a place of importance (Cic ad Alt. iv. 15). Its inhabitants were frequently engaged in li- tigation and disputes with their neighbours of Reate, on account of the regulation of the waters of the Ve- linus, which I'oins the Nar a few miles above Inter- amna; and under the reign of Tiberius they were obliged to enter an energetic protest against a pro- ject that had been started for turning aside the K 4