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 REGINA. stands the modern town of Frascnti. This crater, wliifh resembles that of Gabii on a much smaller scale, being not more than half a mile in diameter, was drained by an artificial emissary as late as the 17th century: but its existence seems to have been unknown to Cluverius and other early writers, who adopted the lake or pool near La Colonna for the Lake Regillus, on the express ground that there was no other in that neighbourhood. (Cluver. Ital. p. 946; Nibby, Dintorni, vol. iii. pp. 8 — 10; Gell, Top. of Rome, pp. 186, 371.) Extensive remains of a Roman villa and baths may be traced on the ridge which bounds the crater, and an ancient road from Tusculum to Labicum or Gabii passed close by it, so that the site must certainly have been one well known in ancient times. [E. H. B.j REGINA. [EitGiNus; Regiana.] REGINEA, in Gallia Lugdunensis, is placed in the Table on a road from Condate {Retines). The first station is Fanum Martis, and the next is Re- ginea, 39 Gallic leagues from Condate. D'Anville fixes Reginea at Erquies on the coast, between S. Brieiic and S. Malo. [Fanum JIartis.] [G. L.] REGINUM, a town in the northern part of Vin- delicia, on the southern bank of the Danube, on the road leading to Vindobona. This town, the modern lialisbon, or Regenshurg, is not mentioned by the Roman historians, but it was nevertheless an im- portant frontier fortress, and, as we learn from in- .scriptions, was successively the station of the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Italian legions, and of a detachment of cavalry, the Ala II. Valeria. The town appears to have also been of great commercial importance, and to have contained among its inhabitants many Ro- man families of distinction. {It. Ant. p. 250; Tab. Pent., where it is called Castra Regiiia; comp. Ravser, Der Oberdonaukreis Bayerns, iii. p. 38, &c:) [L. S.] REGIO, a town of Thrace on the river Bathynias, and not far from Constantinople {Itin. Uieros. p. 570), with a roadstead, and handsome country houses. (Agath. v. p. 146; comp. Procop. de Aed. ir. 8; Theophan. p. 196.) Now Koutsckuk- Tzschekmetsche. [T. H. D.] REGIS VILLA ('PTj^iffoiuAAn, Strab.), a place on the coast of Etruria, which, according to Strabo, derived its name from its having been the residence of the Pelasgic king or chief Maleas, who ruled over the neighbouring Pelasgi in this part of Etruria. (Strab. v. p. 225.) None of the other geographers mentions the locality; but Strabo places it between Cosa and Graviscae; and it is therefore in all proba- bility the same place which is called in the Maritime Itinerary Regae, and is placed 3 miles S. of the river Armenta {Fiora) and 12 miles from Graviscae. (/</«. Marit. p. 499.) The site is now marked only by some projecting rocks called Le Murelle. (Den- ni.s's Etruria, vol. i. p. 398; Westplial, Ann. d. Inst. 1830, p. 30.) [E. H. B.] REGISTUS or RESISTUS. [Bisantiik.] RE'GIUM LE'PIDI or RE'GIUM LE'PIDUM (^ "?■/)•/ lov Ki-Ki5ov, Strab.; 'Vriyiov AeTri'Sioi', Ptol.: Klh. Regiensis •. Regglo), sometimes also called simply Reghim, a town of Gallia Cispadana, situ- ated on the Via Aemilia, between Mutina and Panna, at the distance of 17 miles from the former and 18 from the latter city. (7«m. ^?j/. pp. 99, 127; Strab. v. p. 216.) We have no account of its foundation or origin; but the name would raise a presumption that it was founded, or at lca.st settled and enlarged, by Acrailius Lcpidus when he constructed the Acmi- EEHOB. 697 llan Way; and this is confirmed by a passage of Festus, from which it appears that it was originally called Forum Lepidi. (Fest. s. v. Rltegium, p. 270.) The origin of the appellation of Regium, whitli com- pletely superseded the former name, is unknown. It did not become a colony like the neighbouring cities of Mutina and Parma, and evidently never rose to the same degree of opulence and prosperity as those cities, but became, nevertheless, a flourishing muni- cipal town. It is repeatedly mentioned during the civil war with M. Antonius, both before and after the battle of Mutina (Cic. ad Fain. xi. 9, xii. 5); and at a somewhat earlier period it was there that M. BiTitus, the father of the murderer of Caesar, was put to death by Pompey in B.C. 79. (Oros. v. 22; Pint. Pomp. 16.) Its name scarcely occurs in his- tory during the Roman Empire; but its municipal consideration is attested by inscriptions, and it is mentioned by all the geographers among the towns on the Via Aemilia, though ranked by Strabo with those of the second class. (Strab. v. p. 216; Plin. iii. 15. s. 20; PtoL iii. 1. § 46; Orell. Itiscr. 3983, 4133; Tac. Hist. ii. 50; Phlegon, Macrob. 1.) Ptolemy alone gives it the title of a Colonia, which is probably a mistake; it was certainly not such in the time of Pliny, nor is it so designated in any extant inscription. Zumpt, however, supposes that it may have received a colony under Trajan or Hadrian. (Zumpt, de Colon, p. 403.) St. Ambro.se notices Regium as well as I'lacentia and Mutina among the cities which had fallen into great decay before the close of the fourth century. (Anibros. Ep. 39.) It was not long before this that an attempt had been made by the emperor Gratian to repair the desolation of this part of Italy by settling a body of Gothic captives in the territory of Regium, Parma, and the neighbouring cities. (Ammian. xxxi. 9. § 4.) The continued existence of Regium at a late period is proved by the Itineraries and Tabula {It'm. Ant. pp.283, 287; Jtin. Hier.]). 616; Tab. Pent), and it is mentioned long after the fiill of the Western Empire by Paulus Diaconus among the " locupletes urbes" of Aemilia. (P. Diac. Hist. Lang. ii. 18.) In the middle ages it rose to a great degree of pio- sperity, and Reggio is still a considerable town with about 16000 inhabitants. Its episcopal see dates from the fifth century. The tract called the Campi Macri, celebrated for the excellence of its wool, was apparently included iu the territory of Regium Lepidum. [E. II. B.] REGNI vr)yvoi, Ptol. ii. 3. § 28), a people on the S. coast of Britannia Romana, seated between the Cantii on the E. and the Belgae on the W., in the modern counties of Surreg and Sussex. Their chief town was Noviomagus. (Comp. Camden, p. 179.) [T.H.D.] REGNUM, a town of the Belgae in the S. of Britannia Romana, and seemingly a place of some importance, since there was a particular mad to it. (Hin. Ant. p. 477.) Camden (p. 133) identifies it with Ringwood in Hampshire. Horsley, on the con- trary (p. 441), conjectures it to have been Chi- chester; but, though Roman antiquities have been found at Chichester, its situation does not suit the distances given in the Itincraiy. [T. II. D.] REGU'LBIUM, a town of the Cantii on the E. coast of Britannia Romana. now Reculrer. {Not. Imp.: comp. Camden, p. 236.) [T. H. D.] REHOB ("Powg, al. 'PadS, al. 'Epfw), a town ia the tribe of Asher, occupied by the Canaanites. {Josh. xix. 28; Judg. i. 31.) A second city of the