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 S14 ARMPHAEI. snpport it had afibrded to his enemies. (Cic.pro Caec. 35 : for the various explanations which have heen given of this mndi disputed passage see Savigny, Ver- mitehte Sckrijteny vol. i. p. 18, && and Itbrnjiiardt, ffandbuch der R5m. Alteirthumer, vol. iii. p. 39 — 41.) But notwithstanding this, and the heavj cala- mity which it had previous!/ snfiered at his hands, it appears to have quickly revived, and is mentioned in B. c. 43 as one of tiie richest and most flouiishing cities of Italy. (Appian, B, C. iv. 3.) At that period its lands were portioned out among the soldiers of the Triumvirs : but Augustus afterwards atoned for this injustice by adorning it with many splendid public works, some of which are still extant: and though we hear but little of it during the Roman empire, its continued importance throughout that period, as well as its colonial rank, is attested by innumerable inscriptions. (Orell. Inscr. 80, 3049, 3174, &c.; Plin. iii. 15. s. 20.) After the fall of the Western Empre it became one of the cities of the Pentapolis, whidi continued subject to the Exarchs of Bavenna until the invasion of Uie Lombards at the close of the 6th century. Pliny tells us that Ariminum was situated between the two rivers Abiminus and Aprusa. The former, at the mouth of which was situated the port of Ariminum (Strab. v. p, 217) is now cidled the J/o- recchtaj and flows under the walls of the town on the N. side. The Aprusa is probably the trifling stream now called Auaa^ Immediately S. of Rimini. In the new division of Italy under Augustus the limits of the 8th region (Gallia Cispadana) were extended as far as the Ariminns, but the city of Ariminum seems to have been also included in it, though situated on the S. side of that river. (Plin. I c; Ptol. iii. 1. § 22.) The modem city a£ Jiimini still retains two striking monuments of its ancient grandeur. The first is the Roman bridge of five arches over the Ariminus by which the town is approached on the N. : tins is built entirely of marble and in the best style of architecture: it was erected, as we learn from the inscription still remaining on it, by Augustus, but completed by Tiberius : and is still, both from its perfect preservation and the beauty of its construction, the most striking monument of its class which remains in Italy. On the opposite side of the town the gate leading to Paaro is a trium- phal arch, erected in honour of Augustus: it is built like the bridge, of white marble, of the Corinthian order, and in a very pure style of architecture, though partially disfigured by some later additions. (Eustace, Classical Tour, vol. i. pp. 281, 282; Rampoldi, Z>tz. Corogr. vol. iii. p. 594, The inscriptions are given by Muratori, p. 2006; and Orelli, 604.) A kind of pedestal in the centre of the town, with a spurious inscription, pretends to be the Suggestttm from which Caesar harangued his troops at Ariminum, after the passage of the Rubicon. The coins of Ariminum which bear the Latin legend Arim belong to the period of the Roman colony. [E. H. B.] ARIMPHAEI. [Argippaei.] ARINCHI, a tribe of the Tauri, according to Ammianus IVIarcellinus (xxii. 8. s. 33). [P. S.] ARIOLA, in Gallia, is placed by the Autonine Itin. on the road from Durocortorum {Rkeim8 through Tullum {Totd), to Divodurum (ifefe). But geographers do not agree about the place. Walckcnaer makes it to be Mont Garni; D'Anville fixes it a place called VroU. [G. L.] ARIOLICA. 1. A station and village on the ARIUS. road over the Graian Alps, immediately at the foot of the passage of the mountain itself. The Tabula, in which alone the name occurs, places it 6 M. P. from the station on the summit of the pass (in Alpe Graia), and 16 from Arebrigium; but this last dis- tance is greatly overstated, and should certainly be corrected into 6, as the distances in the Table would in this case coincide with those in the Itinenuy, which gives 24 miles in all from Arebrigium (Pre St. JHdier') to Bergintrum (Bourg SL Maurice), and this is just about the truth. Ariolica probably occuped the same site as La TmUcj in the fint little plain or opening of the valley which occurs on the descent into It^y. The name is eironeously given as Artolica in the oldor editions of the Ta> bula, but the original has Ariolica. [E. H. B.] 2. A station in Gallia, is placed in the Tables on the road from Urba (Or6e), in the Pays de Vand in Switzerland, to Veaontio {Besan^on) in France, and seems to represent Pontearlier on the Loubs; bat the distances in the Antonine Itin. do not agree with the real distances, and D'Anville resorts to a train* position of tiie numbers, as he does occasionally in other cases. The Theodosian Tab. names the place Abrolica, — possibly an error of transcription. [G.L.] 3. [Ardelica.] ARIS ("Apu: Pidhima), a tributary of tiie Pa- misus in Messenia. (Pans, iv* 31. § 2 ; Leake, Morea, vol. i. p. 357, &c.) ARIS. [Arla. Civitas.] ARISBA (jApiar€ri: Eth.' fipKrBauoi), a town of Mysia, mentioned by Homer (//. ii. 837), in the same line with Sextus and Abydus. It was (Steph. B. s. V. ^Aplatri) between Percote and Abydos, a colony of Mytilene, founded by Scamandrius and Ascanius, son of Aeneas; and on the river Seilleis, supposed to be the Moussa-ckai; the village of Moiissa may represent Arisba. The army (^Alex- ander mustered here after crossing the Hellespont. (Arrian. Anab. i. 12.) '^Tien the wandering Galli passed over into Asia, on the invitation of Attalas,they occupied Arisba, but were soon defeated (b.c. 216) by King PrusiUs. (Pol. v. Ill) In Strabo's time (p. 590) the place was almost forgotten. There are coins of Ansbe of Trajan's time,imd also autono- mous coins. There was an Arisba in Lesbos, which Herodotus (i. 151) speaks of as being taken by the Methym- naei. (Comp. Steph. B. s.v. 'Apl<r^.) Pliny (v. 31) says it was destroyed by an earthquake. [G.L.] ARI'STERAE ('ApiirrrpaO, a small island off the coast of Troezenia, near the Scyllaeum promon- tory. (Pans. ii. 34. § 8; Plin. iv. 12. s. 19.) ARISTONAUTAE. [Pellenk.] ARI'TIUM PRAETORIUM ('Apinov, PtoL ii. 5. § 7 : Salvatierra or Benevente), a town of Losi- tania, on the high road from Olisipo (^Lisbon) to Emerita (Merida), 38 M. P. from the former. {It. Ant. p. 418; Geog. Rav. iv. 44.) [P. S.] ARIUS (d *AfH6s, Strab. pp. 515, 518; "Aptioj, Arrian, iv. 6 ; *A/)«iaj, Ptol. vi. 17. § 2 ; 'A^^iwrfs, Dionys. Perieg. v. 1098 ; Arius, Plin. vi. 23. s.25 ; Arias, Ammian. xxiii. 6), the only river of Aria (now the Iferi Rud). It rises at Obeh in the Paropomisan mountains, and having run westerly by Herdt, turns to the NW., and is lost in the Sands. (Elphinstone, Kdbitl, i. p. 155.). Strabo and Arrian both stated that it was last in the Sands. Ptolemy, on the other hand, gave it two arms, of which the w^tem flowed from the Sariphi mountains, and tho eastern from the Paropamisus ; and made it terminate in a