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 AfiMOSOTA. Sinbo (p. 194) mentioBS « diTuion of the Belgae, wfarm be calls TlapmitfaMiTui and he particakriy tmnaes the Vcaeti and OsisDui. They are therefore tike AnDOfkL [G. L."] ARMO'SOTA or ABSAMO'SOTA QAp/xSaara, Poijh. Tiii. 25; *Ap0-«ft^ora, Ptol. v. 13; Armosota, FliiLTL9; Ac8aiDaaata,Tac^iMiai.xv. 10; Spanheim, de Usm Numm. p. 903, has a coin of M. Atirelias, with the epigraph APMACAlTTHNnN), a town of Armetiia, ait^aated near the Euphrates. ( Plin. l.c,') In the times of the emperors d* the East, it fbnned the Aema or military district of Asmosat/ which was in tbe ne^rhboiarhood of Uandsith or Chauzith. (Const. Pwph. de Admin, Imp. c. 50, p. 182, ed. Menrs.) Bitter {ErtOuude, voL xL p. 107) places it in So- pbene {^Kkarp6t and considers that it may be re- presented by the modem &Vl, — the Tigranocerta «d D'Anville. (Lient. Col. Shdl, London Geog. Soc, vol. Tiii. p. 77 ; St. Martin, Mem. sw TArmenie, TOt L PL 106.) [KB. J.] ARMOZONPBOM. [HarmozonJ ARXA ('Apva: Eth. Amas-atis), a city of Cmbria, mentioned both by Silius Italicns and Pt44eiDy, as well as by Pliny, who enumerates the Amates among the inland towns <^ that province. (SO. ItaJ. Tiii. 458; Ptol. iii. 1. § 54; Plin. iii. 14. •.19.) Both Silius and Ptolemy associate it with Hispelhmi, Merania, and other cities in the western part of Umbria; and the inacriptions discovered at Cir^tUa d'Amo, a small town on a hill abont 5 iQiles E. of Perugia, but on the opposite side of the Tiber, leave no doubt that this occupies the site <€ Ama. Some remains of a temple still exist there, and beades inscriptions, some of which attest ia mnmcipal rank, numerous minor objects of antiquity have been discovered on the spot. (Cla- ver. Jtai. p 626; Vermiglioli, DdP aniufa Citta d Armi UwAro-Etrvsca^ 8va, Perugia, 1800; OrelL Inacr. 90, 91.) Cluverius and others have supposed the Ahama, or Adhama of Livy (z. 25), ti> be the same with Ama, but this is probably a mbtake. [Aharna.] [£. H. B.] ARKA. [Xasthus.] AR!iULE ('Afro/), a town in the Macedonian Chaksdice, a day's march from Anion and Bro- nnscus ; but its site is uncertain. (Thuc. iv. 103.) Leake rapposis Amae to be the same as the placo called Cakma by Stephanus («. v. K«Uaf>ra), the euRteore of which near this part of the coast is >b<iwii by the name Tarns Calamaea, which Mela (5. 3) mcntians as between the Strymon and the btftnor Caprua. (Leake, Northern Greece^ vol. iii. PL 170.) ARXE fA/MTF : Eth. 'Apytuos). 1. The chief tnwn of the Aeolian Boeotians in Thessaly, which wraa said to have dorivod its name from Ame, a daughter of Aeolus. (Pans. iz. 40. § 5.) The town was said to have been founded three generations before the Trojan war. (Diod. iv. 67.) According to Tborydldes (L 12) the Aeolian Boeotians were npeOed frtim Arne by the Thessalians sixty years after the Trujan war, and settled in the country called Boeoda after them; but other writers, in- vcrdn^ the older of events, represent the Thessalian Am as founded by Boeotians, who had been ex|]elled finom their countiy by the Pelasgions. (Strab. ix. vpu 401, 4 11 , 4 iS ; Steph. B. $. v.) K. 0. MUller has brought forward many reasons for believing that the Aeo&an Boeotians occupied the centre of Thes- saly. and nearly the same district as the Thessaliotis «f later times; and his views are confirmed by ARNUS. 219 Leake's discovery of the site of Cierivm {Ki4piov)j which, according to Stephanus B. (». v. "hpvri) was identical with Arne, and which must be placed at Jdatardnga, between the Epineua or Apidanus, and a tributary of <^lM4aM» river, probiUjly the andent Curalius. For details see Cierium. (MUller, Do- riaiM, vol. ii. p. 475, seq. transl. ; Leake, Northern Greece^ vol. iv. p. 500, seq.) 2. A town of Boeotia, mentioned by Homer (77. ii. 507), and probably founded by the Boeotians after their ezpalsion from Thessaly. Some ci the anciente identified this Boeotian Arne with Chae- roneia (Pans. ix. 40. § 5), others with Acraephium (Strab. iz. p. 413) ; aud others again suppos^ that it had been swallowed up by the waters of the lake Copais. (Strab. i. p. 59, ix. p. 413.) ARNEAE ('Apvecu: Eth. 'App^drris), a small city of Lycia mentioned by Capito in his Isauricck (Steph. e. V. *AppHU.) It is supposed to be at a place called Emese^ in the interior of Lyda, about 36° 26' N. lat. There are said to be remuns tLere. (Spratt's L^ciOf voL i. p. 1 01, and the Map.) [G.L.] ARNISSA CApviff(ra)j a town of Macedonia m th0 province Eordaea, probably in the vale of (/strovOy at the entrance of the pass over the moun- tains which separated Lyncestis from Eordaea. (Thuc. iv. 108 ; Leake, Northern Greece^ vol. iiL p. 315, seq.) ARNON QApvQv, LXX.j Wady-el-MSjih), a river which separates Trans-Jordanic Palestine from Moab. (^«im. xzi. 13, 26; DeiU. ii. 24, iu. 8, 16; Josh. zii. 1 ; I»a. xvi. 2 ; Jer. xlviii. 20.) Its prin- dpal source is a little to the NE. of Katrane (Burk- hardt, p. 373; comp. Joseph. Ant iv. 5. § 1), whence it pursues a circuitous course into the Dead Sea, flowing in a rocky bed, which in summer is ahnost dried up, but huge ma.sses of rock torn from the banks mark its impetuosity during the rainy season. (Robinson, Paleittne^ vol. ii. pp.206, 213, 569; Irby and Mangles, p. 461 .) [E. B. J.] ARNUS ("/•pwy: Amo), the principal river of Tuscany, and next to the Tiber the most consider- able river of Centi'al Italy. Strabo describes it as flowing from Arretium, and seems to have r^arded it as rising near that city; but its real sources are nearly 30 miles further to the N., in one of the loftiest groups of the Tuscan Apennines, now called Monte Falterona. From thence it has a course nearly due S. till it approaches within a few miles of Arezzo (Arretium), when it tmns abruptly to the NW., and pursues this direction for about 30 miles, as far as Pontomeve, where it again makes a*8udden turn, and from thence holds its course nearly due W. to the Tyrrhenian Sea. In this latter part of its course it flowed under the walls of Florentia, and the more ancient dty of Pisa; immediately below which it received, in ancient times, the waters of the Auser, or Strchto^ which now pursue their own separate course to the sea. [Auser.] Strabo gives an exaggerated account of the violent agitation produced by the confluence of the two streams, which may, however, have been at times very considerable, when they were both swohi by floods. (Strab. v. p. 222; Plin. iii. 5. 8. 8 ; Pseud. Arist. de Mirab. § 92 ; Rutil. Itin. i. 566.) Still more extraordinary is his statement that the stream of the Amus was divided into three, in the upper part of its course ; though some writers have maintained that a part of its waters fonnerly turned off near Arretium, and flowed through the Vol di Chiana into the Tiber. [Clakis.1 Its J,