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APSILAE. where the coast turns north. The distance of 127 miles in the Pentinger Table agrees with Arnian. Accordingly several geographers place Absarnum near a town called Goniek. Its name was connected withh the myth of Halea and her brother Absyrtus, and its original name was Absyrtus ^BrlL GoA. JT. 2) ipaiks i:f [fee rmuisi of its public boJldin^ u pnring ' ^ 11 wH Gonf place of Ewme imparlAiii^ Aniui does wt iwDliun n rjrer Apsanu. He fbca llie niiri(>ble liter Aumpeia 15 stadia T Ainamin, and Fliaj makt the Apsanu sni Ac pw t*o difierent rirera. The Acampaia of Anion 4 Ktoenllj a«annwd to be the targe river Jomk, hidi riaea NW. of Erurnm, and i tnuDc near Baton. Plinj (li. S) ajt that the Abwna liaea in the Parjaiirea, and with that martaiD noK (inns the baoDdaiy in those pirta Ittotta the Greater aad Leas Annuua. This dc Ktil^iaQ can oolj applj to the Jorvk, vrfaich is OD , then, that the aama AcampBia aad Apsama baa been applied to the ume riTer bj diferent wiiten. Uilhiidalei, ia hii Sight afto- being deleatcd by Ca. Pompnus, OBK to the Euphiatta, and thco to the riTcr Apeaiw. t^MiArid. c 101.) It i» taojectiired that the RRr which Xnioptiao (Jaoi. ir. 6, 1) menliona wixbevt a Dame, as the boundarj of the Btacnjim Bd the Scjthini, may be the Jont; and Diis ia int«Ue. [G. L.]

APSILAE, ABSILAE, APSILII ('A+lAX 1 pmple of Tbrue, boidering on the Thradan ClHKUHia. cr of the ume name. APSUS CAif>n), a comiderable rirer of Illyrii, ring bi Moolit PiiidiiB and flnwing into the Ha betwia the riren Genaaiu on the N. and the Aons on the S. ll flow* in a Dorlb-weatera direction till it fiiwd by the Eoidilcni (Dmif), ailer which it takn a bend, and Ann tuwardi the ccut in a soQtbwelllem direction throogb the great marilime plain rf Dlyria. Before ila miion with the Deail, the rivar ia mm cmllcd Uaimi, and after ill union BeniHf. The connlry near the mouth of the Apsus is InqiKiitly menlitoed in the memorable tampaign of Caeiar and Fvnpey in Girece. Caear was for ■n time enounped ec the left bank of the river, t»i PanpeToo the right bank. (Stiab. p. 316; Lii. "^ 27j Caa. B. C. iii. 13, 19, 30; Dion Casa. alL 47: Appian, B. C. iL 56, where the river ia muKaaaly oiStA 'AAwpa; Leake, A'orlAent Cnen-, >ol.L pp. 336, 348, vol. iv. pp. 113,123.)

APSY'IITIDES. [ABSYimDES.]

APTA JULIA iApt), a dlj of the Vulgientee, on the road from Aiekle {Arll»), on ths Kbone, along the Tallcy of the Danuiee, to Augusta Taurinottim (Torino). The name Julia unplies that it waA a colonia, which ia proved by ioHriplionji, though Pliny (iii. 4; and tho note m lllrduin's edition) calls it a Latin towa, that is, a town which had the Jus Latinm. The modern town of Apt, on the Calactm at Coalon, a branch of the Durance, contains some ancient remains.

 A'PTERA (, Steph. B. s. v.;  Ptol. iii 17. §. 10; Apleron, Plin. iv. 20; Eth.  Palaeòkastron), a city of Crete situated to the E. of Polyrrhenia, and 80 stadia from Cydenia (Strab. x. p. 479). Here was placed the scene of the legend of the contest between the Sirens and the Muses, when after the victory of the latter, the Sirens lost the feathers of their wings from their shoulders, and having thus become white cast themselves into the sea,—whence the name of the city Aptera, and of the neighbouring islands Leucae. (Steph. B. s. v.) It was at one time in alliance with Cnossus, but was afterwards compelled by the Polyrrhenians to side with them against that city. (Pol. iv. 55.) The port of Aptera according to Strabo was Cisamos (p. 479; comp. Hierocles, p. 650; and Peutinger Tab.). Mr. Pashley (Travels, vol. i. p. 48) supposes that the ruins of Palaeòkastron belong to Aptera, and that its port is to be found at or near Kalyves. Diodorus (v. 64) places Berecynthos in the district of the Apteraeans. (The old reading was emended by Meursius, Creta, p. 84.) This mountain has been identified with the modern Malaxa, which from its granitic and schistose basis complies with the requisite geological conditions for the existence of metallic veins; if we are to believe that bronze and iron were here first discovered, and bestowed on man by the Idaean Dactyls. [E. B. J.]



 APUA'NI, a Ligurian tribe, mentioned repeatedly by Livy. From the circumstances related by him, it appears that they were the most easterly of the Ligurian tribes, and occupied the upper valley of the Macra about Pontremoli, the tract known in the middle ages as the Garfagnana. They are first mentioned in 187, when we are told that they were defeated and reduced to submission by the consul C. Flaminius; but the next year they appear again in arms, and defeated the consul Q. Marcius, with the loss of 4000 men and three standards. This disaster was avenged the next year, but after several successive campaigns the consuls for the year 180, P. Cornelins and M. Baebius, had recourse to the expedient of removing the whole nation from their abodes, and transporting them, to the number of 40,000, including women and children, into the heart of Samnium. Here they were settled in the vacant plains, which had formerly belonged to Tanrasis (hence called Campi Taurasini), and appear to have become a flourishing community. The next