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 ARGOS fflPPIUM. sarrey ; the mmes are inderted on Leake s anthoritj, to ivfaom we are indebted for most of the preceding remarks. (Leake, Northern Greece^ vol. iv. p. 238, seq.; Wolfe, Journal of GtograjphiaU Society, toL iiL pc 84. eeq.) AfiGOS HITPIUM. [Arpl] ARGOS ORFSTICUM C^^^ 'Opt<mK6v the diief town of the Orestae, said to have be«i foonded by Orestes, when he iled from Aigos after the murder of his mother. (Strab. vii. p. 326.) Strabo {L c.) places these Orestae in Epiros; and th^ mmt piibablj be distinguished from the Mace- donian Orestae, who dwelt near the sources of the Haliarmon, on the frontiers of Illyria. Stephanos B. («. e. 'AfTos) mentions an Aigos in Macedonia, as wcU as Ai^^oe Oresticom; and Hierocles (p. 641) aim speaks of a Macedonian Argos. Moreover, Pldenij (iiL 13. §§ 5, 22) distingnishes clearly between an Epirot ud a Macedonian Orestias, a»- s^Esing to each a town Amantia. Hence the Mace- donian AxgOB appears to have been a different place fnm Arf^ Oresticnm. The former was probably aitaated in the plun of AnaaeUtsa^ near the sources «f the Haliacmon, which plain is called ** Argestaeus Campos** bj Livj (zxvii 33; Leake, Northern Greeetj rol. iv. p. 121, who, however, confounds the Macedomaa Ar^os with Argos Oresticnm). The site of Argos Oresticnm is uncertain ; but a modem writer 0aoes it near Ambracia, since Stephanus calls the Orestae («. v.) a Molossian people. (Tafel, in Paoljs Reidenejid. voL i. p. 738.) ARGOS PELA'SGICUM ('Apyof n€atryuc6v was probably employed by Homer (/7. ii. 681) to ajpufr the whole of Thcssaly. Some critics have mpposed that by Pelasgic Argos the poet alluded to a city, and that this city was the same as the Thes- safian Larissa; bat it has been correctly observed, hrgofK is named marks a separation of the poet's lopugrapfay of Southern Greece and the Islands from tint of Northern Greece; and that by Pdasgic Ar- pas he meant Pelade Greece, or the country in- doded within the mountains Onemis, Oeta, Pindus, aad OlympQS, and stretching eastward to the sea; la short, TlwsBaly in its most extended sense." (Leake, Ncrtkem Greece, vol. iv. p. 532.) ARGOX^S PORTUS. [Ilva-] ABGU'RA CAp7ot»po: Eth. 'Apyovpaws), I. Called Abgissa CApyieca) in Homer (//. ii. 738), a town in Pelasgiotis in Thossaly, on the Peneus, and near Larissa. The distance between this place sod Larissa ia so small as to explain the remark of the Scholiast on Apollooius, that the Argissa of Ilooncr was the same as Larissa. Leake supposes the »ite of Argura to be indicated by the tumuli at a little distance from Larissa, extending three quar- ten of a mile finom east to west (Strab. ix. p. 440; S^mL m ApoiL Rhod, L 40 ; Steph. B. «. v. ; Eostath. ad II. t c. ; Leake, Northern Greece^ vbL Hi p. 367, vol. iv. p. 534.) 2. Also called Abousa ("A/r/ovo-a), a town in Eaboea of uncertain site. (Dem. m Mid, p. 567 ; £teph. B. f. v.i Gramm. Bekk. pp. 443. 18.) ARGY'PHEA C^PTuf «n), » place mentioned in the Homeric Hynrn to Apollo (432) along with Ardp, and thereifore probably a town in Triphylia. A'RGYRE (^'Afjvfni unrp^oKu), the capital of the large idand of Jabadio, which Ptolemy places & of the Aurea Chersooesus {Malay PenifutUa), ■opposed by some to be Sumatra^ by others Java. (PioL viL 2. S 29, m. 27. § 10.) [P. S.] ARIA 209 ARGYRA. [Patrae.] ARGY'RIA QApyvpla), mentioned in the Peri- plus of Arrian (p. 17) as 20 stadia east of Tripolis {Tireboli)y in Pontus. Hamilton {Researches, ^., vol. i. p. 259) found the old silver mines, from which the place took its name, 2| miles from TirebolL Thero was another place Argyria, in the Troas, near Aenea {Ene or Einieh according to Groskurd's ^Qie {Translation ofStrabo, vol. ii. p. 5dO)so called also from the silver mines near thero. [G. L.] ARGYRI'NI {'Apyvp7yot), an Epirote people dwelling on the Cerauniau mountains, whose name is probably preserved in Arghyrdkastro, a place near the river Dhryno, and a few miles south of the junction i£ this river with the Aous. Cramer, fol- lowing Meletius and Mannert, erroneously suppose Arghyrokastro to represent the site of Antigoneia. (Lycophr. 1017; Steph. B. s. v. ^Apyvp7voi; Ctu^ mer's Greece, vol. i. p. 98 ; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 78; oomp. Antigoneia; Aous.) ARGYRIPA. [Arpi.] A'RLA. (^"Apto, Steph. B.: 'Apefa, Ptol. vi. 17. § I ; Arr. Anab, iu 24,25; *ApcW yrj, Isid. Cha- rax : Eth^Aptoi and "Apcioi, Axii), a province on the NE. of Persia, bounded on the N. by the mountains Sariphi (the Eazaras), which separate it from Hyr- cania and Margiana, on the £. by the chain of Bagous (the Ghor Mountains), on the S. by the deserts of Carmania {Kirman), and on the W. by the mountains Masdoranus and Parthia. Its limits seem to have varied very ranch, and to hare been either imperfectly investigated by the ancients, or to have been confounded with the moro extensive district of Ariana. [Ariana.] Herodotus (vii. 65) classes the Arians in the army of Xerxes with the Bactrians, and gives them the same equipment; while, in the description of the Satraines of Daroius (Herod, iii. 93), Hie Parthians, Chorasmians, Sogdians, and Arians ("Apctot), are grouped together in the sixteenth Satrapy. Where he states (Herod, vii. 2) that the Modes were ori- ginally called Arii, his meaning is an ethnographical one. [Ariana.] According to Strabo Aria was 2000 stadia long and 300 broad, which would limit it to the country between Meshed and Herat, — a position which is reconcileable with what Strabo says of Aria, that it was similar in character to Margiana, possessed mountains and well-watered valleys, in which the vine flourished. The boundaries of Aria, as stated by Ptolemy, agree very well with those of Strabo ; as he says (vi. 17. § 1) that Aria has Margiana and Bactria on the N., Parthia and the groat desert of Carmania (that is the groat desert of Yezd and Kimum) on the W., Drangiana on the S., and the Paropamisan mountains on the £. At present this district contains the eastern portion of Khordsdn and the western of Afghdnistdn. It was watered by the river Arius [Arius], and contained the follow- ing cities: Artaooana, Alexandria Ariana, and Aria. Ptolemy gives a long list of provinces and cities, which it is not possible to identify, and many of which could not have been contained within the narrow limite of Aria, though they may have been compre- hended within the wider range of Ariana. [V.J ARIA, is mentioned by Florez, Ukert, and other writera as a town of Hispania Baetica, on the autho- rity of coins bearing the inscriptions aria, cnaria. CUNBARIA.; but Eckhel regards the name of tho place to which these coins belong as uncertain (vol. i. p. 14). Ukert supposes the site of Aria to be at p
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