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 198 ARGAEUS. •Celtiberian or Nnmantine war (b. o. 143 — 183) and espedallj for the defence of NuMAifTiA. (Strab., Polyb., Appian., U. co,) [P. S.] AKGAEUS CAfvyoib* : Argith, or Erjuh Dagh a I0II7 mountain in Cappadocia, at the foot of which was Mazaca. It is, says Strabo (p. 538), always covered with ^snow on the sununit, and those who ascend it (and they are few) say that on a dear day they can see from the top both the Enxine and the bay of Issue. Cappadocia, he adds, is a woodless country, but there are forests round the base of Ar- gaens. It is mentioned by Claudian. (/niZu/*. ii.30.) It has been doubted if the summit of the mountain can be reached; but Hamilton {Buearchei^ ii. 274) reached the highest attainable pdnt, above " which is a mass of rock with steep perpendicular udes, rising to a height of 20 or 25 feet above the ridge,** on which he stood. The state of the weather did not enable him to verify Strabo's remark about the two seas, but he doubts if they can be seen, on account of the high mountains which intervene to the N. and the S. He estimates the height above the sea-level at about 13,000 feet Ai^aeus is a volcanic mountain. It is the culminating point in Asia Minor of the range of Taurus, or rather of that part which is called Antitanms. [G. L.] ARGANTHO'NIUS CApyoi^wof, 'hff^ca^v, Steph.«. V. *AfryayB^v:Adj. ^Apyayddytios)^ a moun- tun range in Bithynia, which forms a peninsula, and divides &e gulfe of Cius and Astacus. The range terminates in a headland which Ptolemy calls Posi- dium: the modem name is KoHrli, according to some authorities, and Bozlmnm according to others. The name is connected with the mythus of Hylas and the Argonautic expedition. (Stnib. p. 564; ApoU. Rhod. L1176.) [G.L.] ARGAHIGUS SINUS iPalk's Baf), a huge bay of In<Ua intra Gangem, opposite to the island of Taprobane (^Ceylon)^ betweod the promontory of C017 on the S., and the city of Curula on the N., with a city upon it named Aigara or Argari. (Ptol. i. 13. § 1, vii. 1. § 96; Arrian. Peripl^ [P. S.] ARGEIA, ARGEII. [Abgos.] ARGENNUM {'kpytvvov, *iyyfwi', Thucyd. viii. 34), a promontory of the territOTy of Erythrae, the nearest point of the mainland to Posidium in Chios, and dbtant 60 stadia from it. The modem name is said to be called Cap Blanc. [G. L.] ARGENOMESCI or ORGENOMESCI, a tribe of the Cantabri, on the N. coast of Hispania Tarraoo- nensis, with a city Argenomescum (prob. Argo- medo and a harbour Vereasueca (prob. P. S, Martin, Plm. iv. 20. s. 34; Ptol. ii. 6. § 51). [P.S.] ARGENTA'RIA (Amm. Marc. xxxi. 10 ; Oroe. viL 33; Aur. Vict Epit, c 47), also called AR- GENTOVARIA, may be Arisenheim in the old province of Alsace, between the Vosges and the Rhine. D'Anville (N^otice, ^.), iu an elaborate article on Argentovaria, founded on the Antonine Itin. and the Table, has come to this probable con- clusion as to the site of Argentaria. Gratian defeated the Alemanni at Argentaria, a.d. 378. [G. L.] ARGENTAHIUS MONS, a remarkable moun- tain-promontory on the coast of Etruria, still called Monte ArgetUaro, It is formed by an isolated mass of mountains about 7 miles in length and 4 in breadth, which is connected with the mainland only by two narrow strips of sand, the space between which fonns an ext«nsive lagune. Its striking form and appearance are well described by Rutilius (Itm. i. 315---^24); but it is remarkable that no mention ARGENTORATUM. of its name is found in any earlier writer, though it is certainly one of the meet remarkable phyrical features on the coast of Etruria. Strabo, horever, notices the adjdning lagune (Xi/iKoMXarra), and the existence of a station for the tunny fisheiy by the promontoiy (v. p. 225), but without giving Uie name of the latter. At its south-easton extremity was the small but weU-sheltered port mentioned by ancient writes xmder the name of Pobtub Hercu- UB {'HpaxXtous Ai/x^y, Strab. I c; RutiL l 293), and still known as Porto dErcole, Besides this, the Maritime Itinerary mentions another port to which it gives the name of Incitaria, which must probably be the one now known as Porto & Stefano, formed by the northern extremity of the headhmd; but the distances given are corrapt (Idn. Marit p. 499.) The name of Moms Argentarius points to the existence here of silver mines, o( which it is sud that some remains may be still discovered. [E. H. B.] ARGENTA'RIUS MONS (Avion. Or. Marit. 291 ; ^Apyupovp ipoSy Strab. iiL p. 148), that part of M. Obospeda in the S. of Spain in which the Baetis took its rise; so called from its silver mines. (Comp. Steph. B. #. v. Taprnoff6s; Pans. ri. 19) Bochart {^Phaleg. L 34, p. 601) agrees with Strabo in suppodng ^t the irard Orospeda had the same sense as argentarius. [P. S.] ARGENTEUS, a river of Gallia Narbonensis, mentioned by Aemilius Lepidus in a letter to Cicero, B. c. 43 (ad Fam. x. 34). Lepidus says that he had fixed his camp there to oppose the feroe of M. Antonius : he dates his letter finom the camp at the Pons Argenteus. The Aigenteus is the river Argents, whidi enters the sea a little west of Foram JirUi (Frejus); and the Pons Argenteus lay on the Roman road between Fomm Yoconu (Canet)y as some suppose, and Forum Julii. Pliny (iii. 4) seems to make the Argenteus flow past Forum Julii, which is not quite exact; or he may mean that it was within the territory of that Golonia. The earth brought down by the Argenteos has pushed the land out into the sea near 3,000 feet. Walckenaer (Geog. des Gamles.&c iL 10) thinks that the Argenteusof Ptolemy cannot be the Aigenteus of Cicero, because Ptolemy places it too near Olbia. He concludes that the measures of Ptolemy cany us to the coast of Argentiere, and the small river of that name. But it is more likely that the error is iu the measures of Ptolemy. A modem writer has conjectured that the name Aigenteus was given to this river on account of the great quantity of mica in the bed of the stream, which has a silvery ap- pearance. [G. L.3 ARGENTEA REGIO. [India.] ARGENTE'OLUM (It. Ant p. 423 ; 'hfitv. rioKa, Ptol. ii. 6. § 28: Torienzo or Tomerasf}, a town of the Astures in Hispania Tarraconensis, 14 M. P. south of Asturica. [P. S.] ARGENTOMAGUS (^ryenton), a pkce in Gaul, which seems to be identifi^ by the modem name, and by the routes in the Antonine Itin. Argenton is SW. of Bourges, and in the departm^it uf Indre. The form Argantomagus does not appear to be correct. [G. L.] ARGENTORATUM, or ARGENTORATUS (Amm. Marc xv. 11: Straadmrg on the Rhine), is first mentioned by Ptolemy. The position is well ascertained by the Itineraries. It has the name of Stratisbui^um in the Geographer of Ravenna and Stratabuxgum in the Notitia, Nithuid, who wrote in the ninth century (quoted by D'Anvil2«