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 ALTDDA. AHAinDES. 113 na. (&i7thVSK%,p.97.) This poation exactly aoearis t^ that described by Cioero, who telle ns t^ Tcnes inmld not teke the trouble to Tisit the tDNvn baradf *' quod exat difficili ascensu atqne iidna,* but ranuned on the beach bdoir while he ant Airhagathns to execute his behests (!▼. 23). Vaiwifl inacriptioos also are preserred at S. MarcOt er hife been Re c o vered thov, one of which begins vkh the wovds r6 MourordrcoF rSv ^AKnrrUnty, (CmiOL Inter. SieiL ^ 55; BSckh, C.L Ko.5608.) Kotwitfastanding these arguments, Gluverius, M- hmff FazcUo, placed Alnntinm at a spot near & FUadef/b, whcare the ruins of an ancient city Vfre theu visible, and regarded S,Mareo as the site cf AgathjfiuL It must be admitted that t^ ar- lageoMnt avada some difficulties [Aoathtbna] ; tat the abore proofr in fitTour of the oontnry hj- pertwiB seem almost ooodusive. (GluTer. SicU. ^»4;Faaen.deJee6.^.ix.4.p.384.} [KH.B.] oocr OF ALcirnuv. ALTDDA CAAvKa), a town of Phrygia men- tiaaediBthePentingerTablou Arundell (I>wcooerie* « A$ia Mmor, L p^ 105) giTes his reasons for sup- pan^ that it may h«Te been at or near Utkak, on tfe road between Sort and Afimn Karahutar^ and ifat it was afterwards called Flaviopohs. He found irmal Greek inscriptions there, but none that con- tamed the name of the place. [6.L.] AirZIA CAA»{Ia, Thucvii.Sl, et alii; 'AX^tia, Staph. B. S.9.Z JStL *AAi<c^, 'AAv{a<of, 'AA^C«<»f, ip. Boekh. Corpm InteripL No. 1793: KandU*), a tcpm «n the west coast of Acamania. According t» Slidbo it was distant 15 stadia from the sea, on vUeh it pMBeased a harbour and a sanctuary, both ^iwKratw i to Herades. In this sanctuaiy were some wki of art by Lysippus, representing the labours rf Hcndea, which a Boman general caused to be KBo«<ed to Borne on account A the deserted state cf the (daee. The remains of Alyzia are still visible ■ dM laOey of KtmdSU. The ^stance of the bay of KaDdiU from the rains of Leucas corresponds wkh the 120 stadia which Cicero assigns for the ifasiui. between Alyzia and Leucas. (Strab. pp. 450,459; Oc odFam. xn. 2; Plin. iv. 2; Ptolem. 5- 14.) Alyzia is said to have derived its name fan Alyxens, a son of Icarus. (Strab. p. 452 ; Si^h. Byz. «. V.) It is first mentioned by Thucy- dides. In B. c. 374, a naval battle was fought in te ndirhboorhood of Alyzia between the Athenians Timotheus and the Lacedaemonians under OODT or ALTZIA. Nicolochus. The Athenians, says Xenophon, erected their trophy at Alyzia, and Uie Lacedaemonians in the nearest islands. We learn from Scylax that the island immediately opposite Alyzia was (»lled Camus, the modem Kalamo, (Thuc. vii. 31; Xen. HeU. V. 4. §§65,66; Scylax, p. 13; Leake, JVorMertt Greece f vol. iv. p. 14, seq.) AMA'DOCI ('A/ii8o«oi), a people of Sarmatia Europaea, mentioned by Hellanicus (Steph. B. s. v.) Their country was (»]led Amadocium. Ptolemy (iiL 5) mentions the Amadod Montes, E. of the Borysthenes (Dnieper^j as an E. prolongation of M. Pence, and in theee mountains the Amadod, with a dty Amodoca and a lake of the same name, the source of a river falling into the Borysthenes. The positions are probably in the S. Bussian province of JehaterinodaVf at in Khenon. [P. S.] AMALEKFTAE ('A/ioAiiicmu, Joseph. Ant iiL 2; in LXX. 'A/ioA^ic), the descendants of Amalek the grandson of Esau. ((Ten. zxzvL 9 — 12.) This tribe of Edomite Arabs extended as far south as the peninsula of Mount Sinai, where ** th^ fought with Israd in Bephidim " (Exod, xvii. 8, &c.) They occupied the southem borders of the Promised Land, between the Canaanites (Philistines) of the west coast, and the Amorites, whose country lay to the SW. of the Dead Sea. (Compare Gm. xiv. 7 with iVumfterf xiii. 29, xiv. 25, 43— 45.) They dispos. sessed the Ishmadito Bedouins, and occupied their countiy " from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt." (Compare Gen. xxv. 18 and 1 Sam. xv. 7.) They were nearly exterminated by Saul and David (1 Sam. XV., xxvii. 8, 9, xxx.); and the remnant were destroyed by the Simeonites in the days of Hezekiah. (1 Chron. iv. 42, 43.) They are the Edomites whom David smote in the Valley of Salt (2 Sam. viii. 12, 13 ; title to Psalm Ix.), doubtless identical with Wady Maleih, about seven hours south of Hebron (Beland's Palettmej pp. 78 — 82: Winer's Bib. Real s. v. ; Williams's Holif City, vol. i. appendix i. pp. 463, 464.) [G. W.] AMA'NIDES PYLAE C^^^^* ^ *A/uiyijral UvKou)y or Amanicae Pylae (Curtius, iiL 18), orPor- tae Amani Montis (Plin. v. 27. s.22). "There are," says Cicero {ad Fam. xv. 4), " two passes from Syria into CUicia, each of which can be held with a small force owing to thdr narrowness." These are the passes in the Amanus or mountain range which runs northward from JRdt el Khdmir, which proinontoiy is at the southem entrance of the ^ic^Ishepdertm (gulf of Issus). This range of Amanus runs along the bay of Iskenderun, and joins the great mass of Taurus, forming a wall between Syria and Cilicia. " There is nothing," says Cicero, speaking of this range of Amanus, *' which is better protected against Syria than Cilicia." Of the two passes meant by Cicero, Uie southern seems to be thq pass of Beiian, by which a man can go from Iskenderun to Antioch; this may be called the lower Amanian pass. The other pass, to which Cicero refers, appears to be NNE. of Issus, in the same range of mountains (Amanus), over which there is still a road from Bayat on tlie east side of the bay of Issus, ioMarath : this northern pass seems to be the Amanides Pylae of Arrian and Curtius. It was by the Amanides Pyhie (Arrian. Anab. ii. 7) that Darius crossed the mount^ns into Cilida and came upon Issus, which Alexander had left shortly before. Darius was tlius In the rear of Alexander, who had advanced as far as Myriandrus, the site of which is near Jskenderiui. Alexander I turned back and met the Persian kiiig at the river I I