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 ARDEA. Us Uwt in Ins time the tame efepbants beloogmg to the emperor mn kept in the territory of Arde* (zii. 105); a proof that it most have been then, as at the pRMBt (by, in great part nncnltivated. We find mcnlido of a redistribation of its " agar " by Hadrian (Lib. Cokn. p. 231), which wonld indicate an attempt at its rerival, — bnt the effort seems to htm hem unsiiocessfiil : no further mention ot it •ocais in hbtny, and the abeenoe of ahnost all jn- Mnpddis of imperial date confirms the fiict that it had sank into insignificance. It probably, however, ■rfv ceased to ezisft, as it retained its name unaltered, and a " castdhun Ardeae " is mentioned early in the BJUi ages, — probably, like the modem town, occa< fpaf[ the aadent citadel. (Nibby, roL L p. SSI.) The moden TiUage of Ardea (a pow place with odj 176 rahabttants, and a great castellated man' MO bekoging to tlw Dokes of Cesarini) otxnpies Ute kifri sorfiioe of a hill at the conflaence of two TalleyB: this, which eridently constitnted the Arz or citadel, is joined by a narrow neck to a nick broader and more eztensiye plateao, on which stood the ancient city. Ko Testiges of this exist (tbooj^h the site is still called by the peasants Ci- ffifia VeodUa); bat on the KE., where it is again ioiaed to the tid>le-]and beyond, by a narrow isthmus, ii a Tttt moond or Agger, extending across firom valley to lalley, and traversed by a gateway in its entre; while abont half a mile farther is another anilBr mound o^equal dimensions. These ramparts wen probably tlie only r^ular fbrtificadons of the dtf itaelf ; the predpitoos banks of tnfo rock towards the Tdkys on each side needing no additional de- fenee. The citadel was fortified on the side towards tiK dty by a doaUe fosse or ditdi, hewn in the rock, as well as by msMsive walls, large portions of which an sdfl preserrod, as wdl as of those which crowned tke CRSt of the d^ towards the valleys. They are butt of irregular aqnare blocks of tnfo: but some poitiaas appear to have been rebuilt in later times. (GcQ, Top. of Jtome, ppi 97— -100; Nibby, Dm- fena di Eoma^ toL L pp. 238 — ^240.) There exist BD odwr rcniaiiis of any importance: nor can the ales be traced of the ancient tnnples, which conti* med to be objects of veneration to the Bomans when Ardea had already Csllen into decay. Among these Pfiay particularly mentions a temple of Juno, which vas adorned with ancient paintings of great merit; kr the ezBcntion of which the painter (a Greek artist) waa l e wa rde d with the freedom of the dty.* hi another paasage he speaks of paintings in tem- fiei at Ardea (probably difierent from the above), wUch were believed to be more ancient than the M^ Hnilatina of Rome. (Plin. xxxv. 3.„£k.fi^0^3„3XO as that there was in the neighbourhood a temple of VcBOs (*Af0f08liri0y), where the Latins annually as- iOBbied Ibr a great festival This is evidently the spot Bien li ope d by Pliny and Mela in a manner that would have led ns to suppose it a town of the name «f ApHBODiBiUM ; its exact site is unknown, but it appean to have been between Ardea and Andnm, mkkh are written in the common editioDB of Pliny 6r which SiOig wouU substitute " Plaatins Marcos Cleoetas Ahilia ezoriundus,*' see the art. JMKm, in B»09r. i)ic<., and Sllig's note «a the p a ia a g e, in his new edition of Pliny. But iw imfiidation AhOia is scarcely tenableu ARDOBRICA. 195 and not fiur from the sea-coast (Strab. ▼. p. 232 ; Plin. iii. 5, 9 ; Mela,'ii. 4.) The Via Ardbahna, which led direct from Rome to Ardea, is mentioned in the Curiostan Urbit (p. 26, ed. Preller) among the roads which issued from the gates of Rome, as well as by Festus (v. RetricibuSf p. 282, M. ; Inscr. ap, Gruterj p. 1189. 12). It quitted the Via Appia at a short distance from Rome, and passed by the fiinns now called Tor Narandaj CuxhiffnoUtj and Tor di Nona (so called from its position at the ninth mile from Rome) to the SolfarakLf 15 R. miles from the dty : a spot where there is a pool of cold sulphureous water, partly surrounded by a rocky ridge. There is no doubt that this is the source mentioned by Yitru- vius (' Fons in .^eatino,' viii. 8) as analogous to the Aquae Albulae ; and it is highly probable that it is the site also of the Oracle of Faunns, so pictu- resquely described by Virgil (^en. vii. 81). This has been transferred by many writers to the source of the Albula, but the locality in question agrea much better with the description in Virgil, though it has lost much of its gloomy character, since the wood has been deared away ; and there is no reason why Albunea may not have had a shrine here as well as at Tibur. (See Gell. I. e, p. 102 ; Nibby, vol L p. 102.) From the Solfarata to Ardea the ancient road coincides with the m'tdem one : at the church of Sta Procula, 4J| miles from Anlea, it crosses the JHo TortOj probably the ancient Numi- dus. [NuMiciua.] No andent name is preserved for the stream which flows by Ardea itself, now called the Fosto delt Incattro, The actual dis- tance frxmi Rome to Ardea by this road is nearly 24 miles ; it is erroneously stated by Strabo at 160 stadia (20 R. miles), while Eutropius (i. 8) calls it only 18 miles. [E. H. B.] A'RDEA CApSea), a town in the interior of penis, S.W. of PersepoUs. (Ptol. xi. 4. § 6; Amm. Marc xxiii. 6.) [V.] ARDELICA, a town of Gallia Transpadana, which occupied the site of tiie modem Pe«cA>era, at the SE. angle of the Lacns Benacus (^Lago di Garda just where the Mindus issued from the lake. The name is found under the corrupted form Ariolica in the Tab. Peut, which correctly places it between Brixia and Verona; the true form is pre- served by inscriptions, from one of which we learn that it was a trading place, with a corporation of ship-owners, ^ collegium naviculariorum Ardelicen- sium." (Orell. Inter. 4108.) [E. H. B.] ARDETTUS. [Athenae.] ARDERICCA ('Ap8^/MK«ra), a small pkce in As- syria on the Euphrates above Babylon (Herod, i. 185), about which the course of the Euphrates was made very tortuous by artificial cuts. The passage of Herodotus is unintelligible to us, and the site of Arderioca unknown. Herodotus (vi. 119) gives the same name to another place in Cisda to which Darius, the ma, of Hystaspes, removed the captives of Eretria. It was, according to Herodotus, 210 stadia hom. Snsa (^tw), and 40 stadia from the spring frtxn which were got asphalt, salt, and oil. [G. L.] ARDLAEI ('Apdiaioi), an Iliyrian people men- tioned by Stn^K), probably inhabited Mt Ardion, which the same geographer describes as a chain of mountains running tloough tiie centre of Daimatia. (Strab vn. p. 815.) ARDOBRI'CA {CoruHa), a sea-pwt town of the Artabri, in the K¥. of Spain, on the greet gulf o 2
 * y •''^Beades theae temples in the city itself, Strabotells
 * Goneenung the name and origin of the painter,
 * Ifanais Ludtns Elotas Aetolia oriundus,"