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 186 AltAE. theKev. W. Thomson. (Mipiot, Mim. de TAcad. del InicripL vol. iixIt. p. 229 ; Winer, Rtal Wirl. Such, t, V. Arvad Raeenmliller, Iland. Bib. Alt. ToL iL pti. p. 7,wi[li the Extracts fomMiundrell, Shiir, Pococke, and Volncj; Cheme;, Eryxd. £u- S. {Artib, Arat, Kuek), an islmnd in fht Pei^ riui pilf. (Stepb. B.; PtoL li. 7. g 47.) Stmbo (p. 766; cornp. Groekord, ad loc.) piacu it tt 10 dij>' vajage iram Teredoo, acd an from the pro- montorj of M^i. The inhabiUcta of thia bland And tho Qrij^hbouring cna Tyna Asserted th*t thej were tho founders of the fell-known Phoenician cities of the Etune nunc. (Comp. Herod, i. 1; U'Aniille, Mim. da fAcad. <ki IntcripL lol. in. p. U7; Ootielin, vol iii. pp. 103, seq. 12S, 124; I4iebabr, Detcript. da tArebie, p. 377; Cbesney, Euprat. voL i. p. 647.) [£. B. J.] ARAE ALEXAHDRI, CYKI. &0. [Albi- ARAE HE'£iPEItI (5. Lucar la Mayor), a toRD of Hisr«aia Baetici, W. of Hiapalie (Sreiflt), men- tioned on an ijucription us having been deslmyed, and rebuilt by Ciesar, with the new name of Solin, or Sollorco. (Florei, Etp. S. vol. ix. p. 115; Utert,i.l.p.373.) [P. S.] ARAE PHILAENO^CM (si t£v *iAaJwr Paiai, Strsb. &e., but al tiXainm Btiul, ro1;b, iii. 39, X. 40). > portion ver; near the boUoni of the Great Sjrtii, on the N. coaat of Aliira, which marked the bonndaiy between the tarribiiies of Carthsge and Cjreiie, uid afterward between Tri- polilana and CTrenucs. (Foljb. IL ec-i Sail. Jug, 19, 79; Strab. ui. p. 171, jmi, p.B36i Plin, T.4i Mela,i.7.SC; Sc7lai,p.47i PtoLi Stidiaam-i Tab. Peut.) The name ii deriTed from a romanCic atoij, for which Sallnst is the earliest aathoritj. (Ju0. 79, comp. Val. Max. T. 6. eit 4.) At the time when the Carthaginians ruled orer the greater part of North Ab:a., and the Gnek colonists of Cjrene were also Tcry powerfijl, long wars arose respecting their boimdarie», which «ere left nn- denned bj the nature of the country on the shores of the Syrtes, & aandy waale, with neither riier nor mountain to serve fur ■ land-mark. (A deeeriptiofl, boKBver, not quite accurate; see Svbtes.) At )enph it waa agreed to fix the bonndarj at the iraint of meeting of envoje sent out at the same time from each citv. Whether bj diligence, trickery, or chan<», the Carthaginian envoys per- formed so much the greater port of the distance (in &ct about 7-91ha, a disproportion sufficient of ilaelf to dispoee of the hitWrical value of the stury), that the Oreeka were prepared for any course rather than to return and mk the penalty of their neg- lect They would only consent to the boundary being filed at the place of meeting, m the condition that the Carthaginians would submit to be buried alive on the ipot; if not, AfiAEXm'KEA, as far i> they pleased on the ume ttmu. Tbt Carthaginian emoya, two brothen namtd PhUieni, dcToted themselves for their Qnutiy, aid tbnr (bUow-dlizeus consecrated their hcroim by hannan to their memory at Imme, and by monninKiis, named after them, on the spot of their hving iater- ment. Like other inch landmarks, erected both la perpetTiate a boundary aod the tnemcsy of nn great event which fixed it, tbeee monomeDts win called allara. (See the lemarka of Sttabo cu such mouTunenta m geiunl, iii. p. 171.) The moui- menla were tw longer to be seen in the time of Stnbo (1^ c), bnt the name wu preserved. Flin; (>. 4) meatioDs the oroe, and iddi, «z lOTtKa nmt taa ; perha[« coatLecting the name with some ex- isting hills, or tumuli, while Stiabo had looked for artificia] moniuiuot>. The podtion is dearly fiiid by the pusages above quMed. It nat nearly si the bottom of the Great Syrtis, a little W. uf Aoto- mala, which was at the very bottom of the Gulf (girab. p. B36); notwithstanding that Sallast (Ji^. 19) appcart to name it as W. of Leptij Uapu,>^ that Straho (p. 171) places it abatU lit midiUi nf Ai cowtrtf bttvan 1^ Syriaa (vktA ^4in¥ isv 'Hir fHTB{4 Tur lifTntr Mv). Botll »ritns, is their other and chief passages (a the labject, plia the altars where we have stated. The apptrent discrepancy m SalJust is easily removed by a pnper mode of connecljng the parts of the sentence (set CorlinsaudEritzaiiicw^aod Manoert i.3. pll7); and the phrase used by Strabo, " the land Mtetn tho SjrtBs," is eootinoally employed fer the whole coast between the outer extremitieA of the two gulfa, KSTit liimiy won bang also evidently nsed vaguely. Tho place does not oocor in the Antoiine lljnenuy. but its position is ofru[Hed by a station calkd Banadedari, probably the native Libyiii or Piuiic name. The locality, as fixed by the ancient wiilerij coiTEspmids to a po«ti«i a httle W. of Motihlar, the preeent boundary of Sifrl and Sttrta, nmr wUch Captam Beei^ (p. 210) mentirau a ir- markable tahle-hill called Jebtl-AOa)!, which hu veiy Ukely as good claims (however feeble tbiy may be) to be conadeied one of the io-<alled Altars, u any other hill or mound teen or imagmed by the andenta. A discusuon of the hiatorical value of the legend of the Pbilaeni ia enpeifiuous: besidet obvious weak pcdnta, it has all (he chanctei <£ a atoi7 inveoted to acoonnt (at some (biking object, such aa tumt^i ,- and the singular ^lAaivov in PoljHuB deserves notice. (Beechey, Proeeedins' of At ExptdiUon lo exphrt ike N. Conit 'S Africa, chap, vi.; Berth, Ifamtenn^rae, #e. Vt- S44, foil.) [P. S] ABAE SESTIA'NAE (SinTioi. B-m' i*P«' promontny ona the NW. extremity t£ Sfaic. Pliny (iv. 20. s. 34) and Ptolemy (il 6. %3) pl*« the headland a little N. of Keiinm Pr. (C. Fmis- lerre), which wonW coiToepond to C. Villanoi Uebi (iii. 1. §9) earriea it further eastward; the focnwr ia the mors probable position. [P. S.] AKAETHY'HEA ('A^ftr»iA.), the andent capi- tal of Fhliasia, is said by Pauuniaa to have been originally named Atantia (AikutJo.), after Aras, its founder, and to have been called Aiaethyi^a after a daughter of Araa of this name. The name of its founder waa retained in the time of Paosanias ia the hill Aran1Jnni,an which it alood. Homer mention) Anelhyrea. (Horn. IL ii- 57 1 ; Strab. viiL p. 382 ; raas.iL12. §§4, S.) Wo IcaiBfrwn Si™bo(I,c.)