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 134 ANCYRA. settled in these parts aboat b. c. 277. [Gaultia.] The Galatae were sabjected hj the Rcmums Tinder Cn. ManliuB, b. c. 189, who advanced as finr as An> cyra, and fonght a battle with the Tectoeages near the town. (LIt. zzzriil. 34.) When Galatia was for- mally made a Boman pnmnce, b. g. 25, Ancyra was dignified with the name Sebaste, which is equivalent to Angosta, with the addition of Tectosagnm, to distingoish it firom Pesainns and Taviom, which were hoDoored with the same title of Sebaste. An- cyra had also the title cf Metropolis, as the coins from Nero's time show. Most of the odns of An- cyra have a figure of an anchor on them. The position of Ancyra made it a place of great trade, for it lay on the road fmn Byzantium to Ta- vium and Armenia, and also on the road from By- umtinm to Syria. It is probable, also, that the silky hair of the Angora goat may, in ancient as in modem times, have formed one of the staples of the place. The bills about Angora are favourable to the feeding of the goat The chief monument of antiquity at Ancyra is the marble temple of Au- gustus, which was built in the lifetime of the em- peror. The walls appear to be entire, with the exception of a small portion of one side of the cella. On tiie inside of the antae ai the temple is the Latin inscription commonly called the Monumentum or Marmor Ancyranum. Augustus (Suet. jIu^. 101) left behind him a record of his actions, which, it was his will, should be cut on bronze tablets, which were to be placed in front of his Mausoleum. A copy of this monorable record was cut on the walls of this temple at Ancyra, both in Greek and Latin. We must suppose that the AncTrani obtained pennissi(m from the Roman soiate or Tiberius to have a tran- script of thia rec<»xi to place in the temple of Au- gustus, to whom they had given divine honoure in his lifetime, as the passage from Josephus (Antiq. JwL xvi. 10), when properly corrected, shows. (See Is. Casaub. in Ancyran, Marmor. Anitnadv,) The Latin inscription appears to have been first copied by Busbequius about tiie middle of the sixteenth cen- tury, and it has been copied by several others since. The latest copy has been made by Mr. Hamilton, and his copy contains some correotions on fonn«r transcripts. A Greek inscription on the outer wall of the cella had been noticed by Pooocke and Texier, but, with the exception of a small part, it was con- cealed by houses built against the temple. By r»* moving the mud wall which was built against the temple, Hamilton was enabled to copy part of the Greek inscription. So much of it as is still legible is contained in the Appendix to his second volume of Jie$earchee in Ana iftnor, &c. This transcript of the Greek version is valuable, because it supplies some defects in our copies of the Latin original. A Greek inscription in fkxkt of one of the antae of the temple seems to show that it was dedicated to the god Augustus and the goddess Bome. Hamilt(m copied numerous Greek inscriptions frxnn various parts of tiie town. (Appendix, voL U.) One of the COIN OP AXCTRA. ANDEMATUMUM. walls of the citadel contiuns an innneose mmber o( " portions of has-reliefe, inscriptioDS, fimereal dppi with garlands, and the caput bovis, carja^es, co- lumns and fragments of architnives, with {nrtB of dedicatory inscriptions, resembling indeed very modi the walls of a rich museum." (Hamilton.) 'f Angoravi stiU a considerable town, vith a large population. [G. L] ANCYRCN POLIS Qhytcvpw wAuj, PtoLir. 5. § 57; Stei^. B. #. v.: Eik, 'Kyimpnoi^i), was a town of Middle Egypt, 10 miles soathwaid of the Heptanomite Aphroditopolis. It derived its ap- pellation from the mannfecture of stcoe anchors cut frt>m the neighbouring quarries. [W. B. D.^ ANDAiaA (ArSoi'fa: Etk. 'AySoric^, 'KM- vcos), an ancient town of Messenia, and the capital of the kings of the race of the Leleges. Itwaa celebrated as the birthplace of ArisUmeDea, hut towards the end of the second Meesenian war it was deserted by its inhabitants, who took refuge in tho strong fortress of Ira. From this time it was on! j a village. Livy (xxxvi. SI) describes it as a/wrran qppultfm, and Pausanias (iv. 33. § 6) saw ody its ruins. It was situated on the road leading from Messene to Megalopolis. Its ruins, according toLeake, are now called J?tfsntikdik(Mtra, and are situated upai a height near the village of Fyla or FHia. Thi Homeric Oechalia is identified by Strabo with An dania, but by Pausanias with Camasum, which wa only 8 stadia from Andania. (Pans. iv. 1. § % n 3. §7, iv. 14. § 7, 26. §6, 33. § 6; Strab.pp.33< 350; Steph. B. 8, v.; Leake, Morea, vd. i. p. 388. ANDECAVI, a Gallic tribe, who were stined i to a rising by Julius Sacrovir in the time of T berius, A. D. 2 1 . (Tac. Ann. iii. 40.) As Taciti in this passage couples them with the TuKnm Turonea, we may conclude that they are the tri which Caesar calls Andes (£. G. ii. 35), and whi occupied a part of the lower valley of the Lot (Ligeris), on the north bank, west of the Turon Their pofidti<m is still more accurately defined that of their chief town Juliomagus, or Civitaa i decavomm, the modem Angers, in the departm of Mctine et Xos're, on the Mayamej an afflneni the Loire. [^G. L.' ANDEIBA CArSci^: ftiL 'Ai^ctpevi^), as written in Phny (v. 32), a town of the Troad, nte of which is uncertain. There was a tem^ the Mather of the Gods here, whence she had name Andeirene. (Ste]dt. B. ». «• "AfSci^nx.) to the stone found here (Strab. p. 610), which, v " burnt, becomes iron," and as to the rest of passage, the reader may consult the note in ( kurd's translation of Strabo (voL ii. p. 590). {Q AND£MATUNNUM,tiie chief town of the gones, is not mentioned by Caesar. The nam curs in the Antonine Itinerary, and in the Peat Table; and in Ptolemaeus (ii. 9. § 19) nndci form 'Ay8o/iarovyoy. Acocording to tiie Ant Itin. a road led from this place to Tnllnin (Jl In the passage of Eutropius (ix. 23) *'*' circa gonas " means a city, which was also named ** < Lingonum;" and if this is AndematimnTiTn, tl is that of the modem town of Langrea, on a the department of HawU Mame, and nesr the of the Mame (Matrena). Limgreg caatah remains of two triumphal arebes, one «rec honour of the emperor Probus, and t2ie ot honour of Constantius Chlorus. Tlte inac said to be found at Langres, which would akic have been a Roman colony, }s declared by .# r I • m. '^* • /■