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 ABENAE MONTES. Toinniiii, and other plicea. Some geognphera have ideatified Arenacvzn mth Amheimf but D'Anville and Wakkeoafer place it at Aert near Heneen, In the Antooine Itin., on the road from Logdmimn (Leidea), to Argentoratum {Str(U»burg the fifth place firam Ln^annm, not inclnding Lugdonnm, is Hiienalio, which is the same as Arenacom. The next phoe on the route is Burginatio. Buiginatio also IbUows Areoatio in the Table ; bat the phu» befioR Areoatio in the Table is Nonomagtis (Ni- sK^oi); in the Itin. Uie statioo which precedes HaRoatio is Carro (iZAenea), as it is supposed. It is certain that Areoatio is not Amkeim, [G. L.] ARK?JAF. MONTES, aooording to the common text of Piinj (iii. 1. s. 3), are the sand-hills {Are- woM Gordai) along the coast of Hispania Baetica, NW. of the moath of the Baetis. Bat SiUig adopts, from some of the best MSS., the reading Mariani Uontes. [Majuakus.] [P. S.] ABETiE CAp^yi)), a town mentioned by Homer as belonging to the doxniniona of Nestor, and situ- ated near the spot where the Minjelos flows into the sea. (Horn. //. iL 591, zL 723.) It also occurs in the Homeric Hymn to ApoUo (423), in oonjunc- tiott idth other towns (m the western coast of Pelo- !"■"*—• According to Pausamas (ir. 2. § 4, 3. § 7), it was built by A^diareos, who called it after Arme, both his wife and his sister by the same mother. It was commooly suppoeed in later times that Arene occupied the site of Samos or Samia in Triphylia, near the mouth of the Anigrus, which WBs bdievted to be the same as the Minyeius. (Strab. rSL p. 346; Paus. v. 6. § 2.) AREON CAf>«ir), a small stream in Persis. (Arrian. Jmdie, 38.) [V.] AR£Ort>LIS, identical with Ar of Moab. S. Jnoeut explains the name to be compounded of the Hebnw word (*V37 Ar or Ir) signifying " dty " and its Greek equiTsJent (vdAxf), "non ut plerique ex^imant quod "Apcof, L e. Martis, dvitas sit " (m Jot. xT.)u He states that the walb of this city vere diaken down by an earthquake in his infimcy (ctre. A. D. 315). It was situated on the south side ef the Biver Aknoit, and was not occupied by the Israelites (Dearf. iL 9, 29; Euseb. Onomast. wb voe, Barked by the ruined tank near Mehatet^l-ffajj a httk to the sooth of the Amon (p. 374). [O. W.J ABETHU'SA. 1. ('Apieowra: i:th,*Ap*eo^ios, AreChoaius, Plin. ▼. 23), a dty of Syria, not tar from Apsmea, ntuated between Epiphania and Emesa. (Aatoo. Itin.; Hierocles.) Sdeucns Nicator, in pur- sQSBoe of his usual policy, Hellenized the name. (Appian, Sy. 57.) It supported Gaecilius Bassus in bis RTote (Strsb. p. 753), and is mentioned by 2oinmis (L 52) as receiring Aurelian in his cam- paigni^amst Zenobia. (For Marcus, the well-known bishap of Arethusa, see DicL of Biog, s. v.) It afterwards took the name of Jiastan (Abulf. Tab, Sfr. p. 22), under which name it is mentioned by tl» «me author (An, Mm. ii. 213, iv. 429). Irby and ManglAa TJated this place, and found some re- Bains (pi 254). 2. (Yosttib), a lake of Armenia, through which the Tii^riB flows, according to Pliny (ti. 31). He de- scribes the river as flowing through the lake with- eat any intermixture of the waters. Bitter (^Erd- immdej ToL z. pp. 85, 90, 101 ; comp. Kinneir, Traveb, pi 383) identifies it with the kke Nazuk, whidi is about 13 miles in length, and 5 in breadth at the oeotre. The water is stated to be sweet and AREVACI. 197 wholesome, which does not correspond with the ao^ count of Pliny. [E. B. J. -, 3. A fountain at Syracuse. [Stracusae.] iijt>h 5, 4. A fountain dose to Ghalds in Euboea, which was sometimes disturbed by volcanic agency. Di- caearchus says that its water was so abundant as to be suffident to supply the whde city with water. (Dicsearch. Bios t^s 'EAAdSof, p. 146, ed. Fuhr; Strab. i. p. 58, z. p. 449; Eurip. Iphiq. m A%d, 170; Plin. iv. 12.) There were tame fish kept in this fountain. (Athen.viii. p. 331,e. f.) Leake says that this celebrated fountain has now totally disappeared. (JVbrtAem GreecSj vol. ii. p. 255.) 5. A fountain in Ithaca. [Ithaoa.] 6. A town of Bisaltia in Macedonia, in the pass of Anion, a little N. of Bromiscus, and celebrated for containing the sepulchre of Euripides. (Amm. Marc, zxvii. 4; Itin. Hierosol. p. 604; Leake, Northern Greece^ voL iii. p. 170.) We learn from Scylax (c. 67) that it was an ancient Greek colony. It was probably founded by the Ghalcidians of Eu- boea, who may have called it after the celebrated fountain in the neighbourhood of thdr city. Ste- phanas B. («. e.) erroneously calls it a dty of Thrace. It was dther from this place or from Bro- miscus that the fortified town of Bentine arose, which is frequently mentioned by the Byzantine hbtorians. (Tafd, TktMaionka^ p. 68.) ABE'TIAS (*Apirrtdr), a small island on the coast of Pontus, 30 stadia east of Phamacia (A'ero- stin<), called "Aptos yritros by Scymnus (Steph. B. 8, V, "Ap^os y^o-os) and Scylax. Here (Apollon. Bhod.ii. 384) the two queens of the Amazons, Gtrere and Antiope, built a temple to Ares. Mda (ii. 7) mentions this |dace under the name of Area or Aria, an island dedicated to Mars, in the neighbourhood of Golchis. Aretias appears to be the rocky islet called by the Turks Kerastmt Ada, which is between 3 and 4 miles from Kerasunt, " The rock is a black volcanic breccia, with imbedded fragments of trap, and is covered in many places with broken oyster- shells brought by guUs and sea-birds." (Hamilton, BaearekeSf i. 262.) This may explain the legend of the terrible birds that frequented this spot. Pliny (vL 12) gives to the island also the name of Ghal- ceritis. [G. L.] ABETLAS. [AMAfl,] AKEVA, a tributaiy of the river Durius, in Hispania Tarraconensis, from which the Arevaci derived their name. It is probably the Ucero^ which flows from N. to S., a little W. of 2P W. long., and falls into the Dowo S. of Otma^ the andent Uxama. (PUn.* iii. 3. s. 4.) [P. S.] ABE'VACI, ABE'VACAE CApcoudico*, Strab. iii. p. 162; Ptd. ii. 6. § 56; 'Apcn/oxof, Pol. zxxv. 2; 'ApoiMuco(, Appan. Hitp, 45, 46), the most powerful of the four tribes of the Geltiberi in His- pania Tarraconoisis, S. of the Pelendones and Be- rones, and N. of the Garpetani. They extended along the upper course of the Durius, from the Pistoraca, as far as the sources of the Tagus. Pliny (iii. 3. s. 4) assigns to them six towns, Segontia, Uxama, Segovia, Nova Augusta, Termes, and Glunia, on the borders of the Geltiberi. Numantia, which Pliny assigns to the Pelendones, is mentioned by other writers as the chief dty of the Arevaci. [Nu- mantia.] Strabo, Ptolemy, and other writers also mention Lagni, Malia, Serguntia or Sargantha, Ge- sada, Golenda, Miacum, Pallantia, Segida, Aihare, Gonfiuenta, Tucrisj Veluca, and SetortLtlacta. The Arevad were distinguished for their valour in the o 3 I
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