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 870 SABIS. direct to Reate, and thence ascended the valley of the Velinus by Interocrea and Falacrinum, from whence it crossed the ridsje of the Apennines into the valley of the Truentus in Piceniim, and thus descended to Asculum and the Aiiriatic. The stations between Rome and Reate were Eretuin, which may be fixed at Grotta Marozza, and V'icus Novus, the site of which is marked by the Osteria Nuova, or Osteria dei Massacci, 32 miles from Rome. (Westphal, Rdm. Kamp. p. 128.) [Via Salauia.] Notwithstanding its mountainous character the Sabine territory was far from being poor. Its pro- ductions consisted chiefly of oil and wine, which, thougii not of first-rate quality, were abundant, and supplied a great part of the quantity used by the lower classes al Rome. (Hor. Carm. i. 9. 7, 20. 1 ; Juv. iii. 8.5.) The Sabine hills produced also in abundance the plant which was thence known as Sabina herba (still called Savin), which was used by tiie natives for incense, before the more costly frankincense was introduced from the East. (Plin. xvi. 20 s. 33, xxiv. 1 1. s. 61 ; Virg. Cul. 402 ; Ovid, Fast. i. 342.) The neighbourhood of Reate was also famous for its breed of mules and horses; and the mountains afforded excellent pasturage for sheep. The wilder and more inaccessible summits of the Apennines were said still to be frequented by wild goats, an animal long since extinct throughout the continent of Italy. (Vixri: E. R. ii. 1. §5, 3. § 3.) [E. H. B.J SABIS (2ix§is), a small river of Carmania, which is mentioned by Mela in connection with two other small streams, the Andanis and Cores (iii. 8). It is also noticed by Pliny, who places it in the neighbourhood of Harmuza (Ormi'iz, vi. 23. s. 27). Ptolemy speaks of a town in Carmania of the same name with this river (vi. 8. § 14), [V.] SABIS {Sambre), a river of Belgica, which joins the Jlo.'-a ( J/ans) at Charleroi. Caesar (b. c. 57) marched against the Nervii and their confederates from the south, and he found the enemy posted on the north side of the Sabis (B. G. ii. 16). In this battle the Belgae were defeated with great slaughter. [Nekvii.] [G. L.] SABLUNES, in Gallia Belgica, is placed by the Antonine Itin. on a road from Colonia Trajana {Kelln) to Juliacum (JuUtrs) and Colonia Agrippi- neiLsis {Cologne). Sablones is supposed to be a place named Jnt-Sandt near Stralen, a town on the river Niers, a branch of the Maas. But see SIkdiolanum in Gallia, No. 3. [G. L.] SABOCI (^aSwKoi al. ^aSoKoi, Ptol. iii. 5. § 20), a people of European Sarmatia, who from the termination " boki," " bank," so often occurring in Russian and Polish local names, must be looked for in the basin of the river Sail, one of the largest affluents of the Vistula, and which drains a greater part of Galizia. (Schafarik, Slav. Alt. vol. i. p. 206.) [E. B. J.] S A BORA, a place in Hispania Baetica, in the mountains above Malaija, near Cannete; known only from inscriptions. (Carter, Travels, p. 252 ; Ukert, V..1. ii. pt. i. p. 360.) [T. H. D.] SABRACAE, a people who dwelt, according to Curtius, in the southern part of the Punjab, in the neigliLourhood of the Insula Pattalene (ix. 8. § 4). They are mentioned in connection with the Praesti as forming part of the realm of Musicanus. (Ar- rian, Anab. vi. 15; Diod. xvii. 102.) [V.] SABRATA CZo.SpdTa, Ptol. iv. 3. § 4 1 ; Plin. v. 4. SACASTENE. s. 5; Solin. o7; Itin. Anton.; Pent. Tab.; '2aSapaOd, Procop. de Aed. vi. 4; '2a,€pdda, Stadiasm. §§ 99, 100), a Phoenician town (Sil. Ital. iii. 256) on the coast of N. Africa between the Syrtes. The name, which is Phoenician and occurs on coins (Movers, Die Phoniz. vol. ii. p. 491), received the Graecised form Abrotonum; for although Pliny (I. c.) dis- tinguishes the two towns they are undoubtedly the same places. It became afterwards a Roman co« Ionia, and was the birtliplace of Flavia Domitilla, the first wife of Vespasian, and mother of Titus and Domitian. (Sueton. Vespas. 3). Justinian fortified it (Procop. I. c), and it remained during the middle ages one of the most frequented markets upon this coast, to which the natives of central Africa brought their grain (comp. Ibn Abd-el-Hakem, Joui-nul Asiatique, 1844, vol. ii. p. 358). Barth {Wander- ungen, p. 277) has given an account of the extensive ruins of Sabrata, wiiich he found to the V. of Tripoli, at Tripoli Vecchio, or Soara-esch-Schurkia, lat. 32° 49', long. 12° 26'. (Smyth, Mediterranean, p. 456.) [E. B. J.] SABRINA (called by Ptolemy Sagpidi/a, ii. .3. § 3; probably also the Sarva of the Geog. Rav. v. 31), a river on the W. coast of Britannia Romana. which falls into the sea near Venta Silurum, now the Severn. Its mouth formed an estuary of the same name. (Comp. Tac. Jb«. xii. 31.) [T. H. D.] SABUS, a fortified place in Armenia Minor, at the foot of Antitaurus. {It. Ant. p. 209 ; Not. Iwp. c. 27.) In the Peuting. Table it is called Saba. [L. S.] SACAE. [SCTTHIA.] SACALA (tk SawraAo), a desert spot on the sea- shore of Gedrosia which was visited by the fleet of Nearchus (Airian, hid. c. 22). It is not satisfac- torily identified with any modern place. (Vincent, Voyage of Nearchus, i. p. 202.) [^'0 SACANI. [Sarmatia.] SACAPENE. [S.CASENE.] SACARAULI (SaK-apaDAoi, Strab. xi. p. 511), a nomad people of Central Asia, belonging to the oldest stock of the Turks of the Altai. In Ptolemy (vi. 14. § 4) this people appear under the name of Sagaraucae (JS,ayapo.iiKa.i) (comp. Ritter, Erdkunde, vof. vii. p. 696). [E. B. J.] SACASSE'NE {taKaa(nvi), Strab. ii. p. 73. xi. pp. 509, 511, 529: Eth. Sac.assani, Plin. vi. 11), a province of Armenia, on the borders of Gogarene, which it separated from the valley of the Araxes, and which extended to the river Cyrus. St. Martin {Mem. snr VArmenie, vol. i. pp. 143, 209, 210) identifies it with the Armenian province of Sinunik'h, which was governed up to the r2th century by a race of princes who traced their descent to Haig, first king of Armenia, and who in the 9th century had political relations with the Byzantine court. (Const. Porph. de Caeren. Aul. Byz. vol. i. p. 397.) The SaCxVpene of Ptolemy (v. 13. § 9) appears to be the same as this province. [E. B. J.] SACASTE'NE {'2,a.Ka(T'T-rvri), a district of the interior of Drangiana, which was occupied by the Sacae or Scythians, who appear to have descended through the Prmjdb, and to liave settled there. (Isidor. Mans. Pai-th. c. 18.) According to Isido- rus, it bore also the name of Paraetacene. It has been supposed that the modern name of this country, Segestan or Seistan, is derived from Sacastene (Wahl, Vorder u. Miltel-Asien, i. p. 569; comp. Ritter, viii. p. 120). Four towns, Baida, Min, Palacenti, and Sigal, are mentioned in it : of these, Min may