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 AUAZONES. (Jote^ AuL xiJL 13. § 3), and after hs restonUan VM CBS cf die fire cities in which the Sanhedrim Mt: the othexs icere Jernsalem, Jericho, Gadara nd Seppboris (Ik xiv. 10). Barkhaidt passed dhitT of the naountain** called AnuUOj near the Jdnian, and a little to the north of the Zerka (Jabbok). He was told " that sevenl colnmns raoBm standing, and alio some burge hoildings." (TiBTeb, pt 346.) [G. W.] AMA'ZONES (^AMaC6if€s), a mythical race of mfike *F«**^**, of irhom an aoooont is giTsn in the Lktiomtmy of Biography and Mytkohgy. AMBABRI, a Gallic people, whom Caesar (J9. G. 1 11) calb dose allies and kinsmen cf the AednL If the reading ^ Acdni Ambarri " in the passage xe- fcnted to is comet, the Ambarri were Aedni. They are not mendooed among the " cHentes ** of the AedoL (A G. vii. 75.) They occupied a tract in the Talky of the Bhone, probably in the angle be- tveen the SaSne and the Bhone; and their ndgh- beuis oa the E. were the ABobroges. They are WBtinnfd by livy (r. 34) with the Aedni among thuse Galli who were said to have crossed the Alps into Italy in the time of Tarquinins Prisens. J[G.L.] AMBIA'NI, a Belgic people, who were said to tie able to master 10,000 armed men in b. c. 57, the year of Caesax's Belgic campaign. They submitted to Caesar. (B. G. ii. 4, 15.) Their country lay in the valley of the Samara {Somme); and their chief temu SamainbriTa, afterwards odled Ambiani and GritSB Ambianensimn, is supposed to be represented by ilsirnir They were among the people who took pait in the great insurrection against the Romans, is described in the seventh book of the Gallic (JL G, Tii. 75.) [G. L.] AlfBUTI'KUS VICUS, or AMBITABINUS, as tiie tree reading is said to be (Soeton. CaKff. 8), a place in tbe eu unti ^ of the Trariri above Conduentes iCoUattzy, where the emperor Caligula was bora. Its precise positioo cannot be ascertained. [G. L.] AMBIBABI, one of the people or states of Ar- Bttka. (Caea.J3.<?.Tu.75.) Their position does Ml appear to be detennined. [G. L.] AMBILIATI, a people mentioned by Caesar (it G. m. 9) with the Nannetes, Morini, and others ; lot nothing can be inferred from this passage as to their preciae r^*i«' Some of the best MSS. have XB titts passage the leading " Ambisnos " instead of AMBRACIA. 119 AfflbOiatos." [G. L.] AMBISONTES or BISONTES, one of the many etherwise unknown tribes in the interior of Noricum, abovt the sonroes of the rivets Ivarus and Anisus, in the xtfii^boariiood of the modem city of Salz- baqr. (Plin. iiL 24; PtoL ii. 13. § 3.) [L. S.] AMBIVA'BETI, axe mentioned by Caesar (B. G. vfi. 75) aa ** dientes " of the Aedni ; and they are tmmm*immmA agaiji (viL 90). As dependents of the Acdni, they mnst have lived scanewhers near them, boi then is no evidence for their exact position. The Ambivanti mentkoed by Caeear (J9. G, iv. 9) were a people near the Mosa {MaoB). As the two ■aaacB are evidently the same, it is probable that there is some error in one of the names; for these peofJe OQ the Hosa could hardly be dientes of the Aedal As to the various readings in the passage (£.G.iv.9),BeeSefaneider's edition of Caesar. [G.L.] AUBLADA fA/i^AaSa: Eih, 'Am^Ao^ci/x), a rity of Pisidia, which Strabo (p. 570) pteces near the bonndsriea of Phxygia and Caria. It produced thit was used tat medicinal poxposes. Thexe are copper coins of Amblada of the period of the Antonini and their successors, with the epigraph A/($Aa5cc0i'. The site is unknown. [G. L.] AMBRA'CIA Qhtmepwda, Thnc; 'AM«p<ur(a, Xen. and later writers: Eth, 'A/twpoirtc^f, Herod, viii. 45, Thuc. ii. 80; lonio ^Kiiitfnuuirrns^ Herod. iz. 28; 'AfAepoKubrris, Xen. Anab, i. 7. § 18, et ahi; 'AfigpoKuifs, Apoll Rhod. iv. 1228; 'AtiJSpl. KtoSf 'AftkpoKiitoSj Steph. B. s, v. : Ambiadensis, liv. zzzviii. 43; Ambradota, Cic rtisc. i. 34: Arta)j an important dty to the north of the Am- bradot gulf, which derived its name from this place. It was situated on the eastern bank of the river Aiachthns or Arethon, at the distance of 80 stadia from the gulf, according to andent authorities, or 7 English imles, according to a modem traveller. It stood on the western side of a rugged hill called PerranUies, and the acropolis occupied one of the smnmits of this hill towards the east. It was rather more thui three miles in circumference, and, in ad- dition to its strong walls, it was well protected by the river and the heights which surrounded it It is generally described as a town of Eparus, of wlilch it was the capital under Pyrrhus and the subsequent monarchs; but in eartier tunes it was an independent state, with a oonsidersble territory, which extended along the coast for 120 stadia. How far the terri- tory extended northward we are not informed ; but that portion of it between the dty itself and the coast was an extremely fertile plain, traversed by the Arachthus, and producing excellent com in abundance. Ambncia is called by Dicaearchus and Scylax the first town in Hellas proper. (Strsb. p. 325; Dicaearch. 31, p. 460, ed. Fuhr; Scyl. p. 12; Polyb. xxii. 9; Liv. xxxviii. 4.) According to tradition, Ambntcia was originally a Thesprotian town, founded by Ambrax, son ai Thes- protus, or by Ambrada, daughter of Aogeas; but it was made a Greek city by a colony of Corinthians, iriio settled here in the time of Cypselus, about b. c. 635. The colony is said to have been led by Gor- gus (also called Toi^s or Tolgus), the son or brother of Cypsdus. Gorgns was succeeded in the tyranny by hiB son Pcriander, who was deposed by the people, probably after the death oi the Corinthian tyrant of tiie same name. (Strab. pp. 325, 452; Scymn.454; Anton. Lib. 4; Aristot. Pol v. 3. § 6, v. 8. § 9; Ael. K. ff, xii. 35; Diog. Lagrt. i. 98.) Ambncia soon became a flourishing dty, and the most important of all the Corinthian colonies on the Ambniciot gulf. It contributed seven ships to tho Greek navy in the vrar against Xenes, b. c. 480, and twenty-seven to the Corinthians in their war against Corcyra, b. c. 432. (Herod, viii. 45 ; Thnc. i. 46.) The .^bradots, as colonists and allies of Ccnrinth, espoused the Lacedaemonian cause in the Pdoponnesian war. It was about this time that they reached the maximum of their power. They had extended their dominions over the whole of Amphi- lochia, and had taken possession of the important town of Argos in this district, from which they had driven out the original inhabitants. The expelled Amphilochians, supported by the Acaraanians, applied for aid to Athens. The Athenians accordingly sent a force under Phormion, who took Argos, sold the Ambraciots as slaves, and restored the town to the Amphilochians and Acamanians, b. c. 432. Anxious to recover the lost town, the Ambraciots, two years afterwards (430), marched against Argos, but were unable to take it, and retired after laying waste its territoiy. Not disheartened by this repulse, they I 4
 * tbt niiBs of an ancient city standing on the de-