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unknown : but in the reign of Tiberius the Reatines had to contend against a more formidable danger, arising from the project which had been suggested of blocking up the outlet of the Lacus Velinus altogether; a measure which, as they justly complained, would undoubtedly liave inundated the whole valley. (Tac. Ann. i. 79.) Similar disputes and difficulties again arose in the middle ages ; and in A. d. 1400 a new channel was opened for the waters of the Velinus, which has continued in use ever since.

No other mention occurs of Reate under the Roman Empire; but inscriptions attest its continued iimnicipal importance : its name is found in the Itineraries (Itin. Ant. p. 306), and it early became the see of a bishop, which it has continued ever since. Throughout the middle ages it was, as it still continues to be, the capital of the surrounding country. No ancient remains are now visible at Ricti.

The territory of Reate was famous in ancient times for its breed of mules and asses ; the latter were particularly celebrated, and are said to have been sometimes sold for a price as high as 300,000 or even 400,000 sesterces (Varr. R.R. ii. 8. § 3; Plin. viii. 43. s. 68), though it is difficult not to suppose some error in these numbers. Hence, Q. .A.xius, a friend of Varro, who had a villa on the Lacus Velinus, and extensive possessions in the Eeatine territory, is introduced by Varro in his dialogues De Re Rustica, as discoursing on the subject of breeding horses, mules, and asses. (Varr. R. R. ii. 1. § 8 ; Strab. v. p. 228.) It was at the villa of this Q. Axius that Cicero lodged when he visited Reate. (Cic. ad Att. iv. 15.) The Septeji Aquae, mentioned by him in the same passage, and alluded to also by Dionysius (i. 14), were evidently some springs or sources, which supplied one of the small lakes in the valley of the Velinus. [E. H. B.]

RECHIUS. [Bolbe.]

REDINTUINUM, a town in the northern part of the country occupied by the Marcomanni (Bohemia), is mentioned only by Ptolemy (ii. 11. § 29). Some geographers regard it as having occupied the site of the modern Prague, and others identify it with Horziez ; but nothing certain can be said about the matter. [L. S.]

RE'DONES, in the Celto-galatia Lugdunensis of Ptolemy (ii. 8. § 12), are placed by him west of the Senones and along the Liger. Their capital is Condate (Rennes). But the Redones were not on the Loire. Pliny (iv. 18) enumerates the Rhedones among the peoples of Gallia Lugdunensis: "Diablindi, Rhedones, Turones." After the bloody fight on the Sambre (b. c. 57) Caesar sent P. Crassus with a single legion into the country of the Veneti, Redones, and other Celtic tribes between the Seine and the Loire, all of whom submitted. (B. G. ii. 34.) Caesar here enumerates the Redones among the maritime states whose territory extends to the ocean. In b. c. 52 the Redones with their neighbours sent a contingent to attack Caesar during the siege of Alesia. In this passage also (iJ. G. vii. 75), the Redones are enumerated among the states bordering on the ocean, which in the Celtic language were called the Armoric States. D'Anville supposes that their territory extended beyond the limits of the diocese of Rennes into the dioceses of St. Malo and Dol. Their chief town, Rennes, is the capital of the department of Ille-et-Vilaine. [G. L.]

 REGANUM, a northern tributary of the Danube, the modern Rerjen in Bavaria, is noticed only once. (Geogr. Rav. iv. 25.) [L. S.]

RE'GIA (, Ptol. ii. 2. § 10). 1. A place in the interior of Hibernia, no doubt so named by the Romans from its being a royal residence, the proper name of which was unknown to them. It was perhaps seated on the river Culmore, in the neighbourhood of Oma/jk.

2. (, Ptol. I. c), another place of the same description, conjectured to have been on the river Bur.

3. Regia Carissa. [Carisa.] [T.H.D.]

REGIA'NA (called by Ptol. ii. 4. § 13, ; comp. Geogr. Rav. iv. 44, and Regina, Plin. iii. 3), a town of Baetica, on the road from Hipsalis to Emerita. (^Ttiu. Ant. p. 415.) Usually identified with Puebla de la Reyna, where there are Roman remains. [T. H. D.]

REGIA'NUM (, Ftol. iii. 10. § 10), a place on the Danube in Moesia Inferior. It is pro- bably the same place as the Augusta of the Itine- rary (p. 220; comp. Tab. Pent.) and the hvyovarov of Procopius {de Aed. iv. 6); in which case it may be identified with Cotoszlin at the confluence of the Ogristul and Banuhe. [T. H. D.]

REGILLUM, a town of the Sabines mentioned by several ancient writers as the place of residence of Atta or Attius Clausus, who migrated to Rome about b. c. 505, with a large body of clients and followers, where he adopted the name of Appius Claudius and became the founder of the Claudian tribe and family. (Liv. ii. 16; Dionys. v. 40; Suet. Tib. 1 ; Serv. ad Aen. vii. 706.) About 60 years afterwards C. Claudius, the uncle of the decemvir Appius Claudius, withdrew into retirement to Regillum, as the native place of his forefathers (" antiquam in patriam," Liv. iii. 58 ; Dionys. xi. 15). The name is not noticed on any other occasion, nor is it found in any of the geographers, and we are wholly without a chie to its position. [E. H. B.]

REGILLUS LACUS (, Dionys.: Lago di Cormtfelle), a small lake in Latium, at the foot of the Tusculan hills, celebrated for the great battle between the Romans and the Latins under C. JIamilius, in b. c. 496. (Liv. ii. 19; Dionys. vi. 3; Cic. de Nat. B. ii. 2, iii. 5; Plin. xxsiii. 2. s. 11 ; Val. Max. i. 8. § 1 ; Vict. 17'-. ///. 16; Flor. i. 11.) Hardly any event in the early Roman his- tory has been more disguised by poetical embellish- ment and fiction than the battle of Regilius, and it is impossible to decide what amount of historical character may be attached to it : but there is no reason to doubt the existence of the lake, which was assigned as the scene of the combat. It is expressly described by Livy as situated in the territory of Tusculum (ad lacum Regillum in agro Tusculano," Liv. ii. 19); and this seems decisive against the identification of 'it with the small lake called II Laghetto di Sta Prassede, about a mile to the N. of La Colonna; for this lake must have been in the territory of Labicum, if that city be correctly placed at La Colonna [Labicum], and at all events could hardly have been in that of Tusculum. Moreover, the site of this lake being close to the Via Labicana would more probably have been indicated by some reference to that high-road than by the vague phrase "in agro Tusculano." A much more plausible suggestion is that of Gell, that it occupied the site of a volcanic crater, now drained of its waters, but which was certainly once occupied by a lake, at a place called Cornufelle, at the foot of the hill on which