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 e later i na&ctnm irhiiJi tahave conlinued lo Bubsut througbant tha middb igte, ■lid is still > couridersble tpim witb about 9000 ia- habitants. A/pnom contuns scareel j anj imuini of Itomin date, hot its andent walls, built in the Cjclopean bljls, of bagfi poljgonal or imgnlar blotka of slone, are one of (be most striking apecimena of thia style of con- fitmction in Ifal^. Tbej extend along the northem brow of the hill, occupied b; the present torn, as fnr as th( ancient citailel non called Cin'la Vecclaa on its highest summit. Neadj adjoining this is an luicieut );ate of lery Bingalar cooitructioo, bdng fmmed of rouRhlj bewn ston«. the aneceasive courses of which project over each other till they meet, ao as to form a kind of pnnted arch. Some re«mUan« may cer- tainly bo traced between this gateway and than at Tirycu and Mycenae, but the agreement is by no means, » close as muntained by Gdl and olher writeis. Lower donn the hill is a fiHe'Eomaii aich, soring as one of the gates of the modem town ; and near it an soma maasiva lemaios of a monument^ apparently Bepolcbral, which a local anUqnary (Claiclli) main- tains to be the tomb of Mug Satumua (I), who, ac- cording to popular belief, was the founder uf Aifi- num. (Roiiianelli, lol. iiL pp. 371—375! ClavelU, Storia di Arpino, pp. 11, 12; Kelsall, Journci/ to Arpiw, Geneva, 1820,pp.63— 79; Craven, Jftnari, vol, i. pp. 107 — 109; Dionigi, Viaggio ad afciaw CiUadrl Laao '" "" ' -v^fT C ccro repeatedly alludes to a viUa belong ng to hs brother Qmntus between Arpnum and Aqui nutp, to which ho givea the name of Arcanuh (mi a. Ft. iii. 1, 9, ad Alt. v. 1). Hence it has been siippoied that the modem ttlbge of Anx, about aa Arx ; and indeed it ia already mentioned under tliat name by P. Uioconus, in the seventh century. (A/ui. vL 27.) There is. however, no ground for connecting it (as has bem done by Romaoclli and others) with the AT^ of Ptolemy (iii. 1. § 57), nhicli is placed by that writer among the Mar^i. It was probably only a villai^c in the territory of Arpi- num i [hough, if »e can Iniit to the inscriptions published by local writers in nhich Arkab and ARKiNuMare fliund, it mnst hare been a town with municipal privileges. (Bonianelii,vol.iii.pp.361,375; but comp. Muntori, later, p. 1102. 4.) The vilU of Q. Cicom was placed, like that of h'- brother, m the valley of the Liris, beneath the hill now occupied hj Arcc : and some remains which have been found in that locality are regarded, with much pUusibility. aa those of the villa itself. The inscriptitms alleged ARBETIUM. lo have been discovered then am, bonier, of vay doubtful authenticity. (Romuelli, vol. iiL p. 375; Dionigi, JLo. p. 45; Orell. /nMr. 571, 572.) PluUrch (ilar. 3) mentiims a villng* ahich be calls ClTTbaeaton {Kif^miiar), in the (etritaf]rof Arpinum, at wliicb he tella us that Marias wai brought up. The name is probably .a corruptirai of Cekkatae, but if 10, he is cwtainly nuataken bl assigning it to the immediate uoghbourbood of Ar- pinum. [CaaHATAB.] [E.H.B.] ARRA. l.(^(irmA, Jfdomi). atownofClul- cidicc in Syria, 20 M.P. S. of Chalcb (/f. Jul. p. 194). In Abnifeda {Tab. Syr. pp. 21, 111), it appean as a coosidenbie place, tmder the aaine of Haaral. 2. ('A^ miM. Ptol tL 7. § 30), an inkna town of Arabia Felix, the came apparently which Pliny calls Areni (vi. 28. ». 32). [P. S.l ABRABO ('A^ii., PtoL iL 11. § 5, ii. 16. ^^ 1. 2). 1. A river, ana of tha feeders of the Daanbe, and the bonndaiy between Ui^kt and Lower Fu- nonia. It enteral the DaDitbe just below tha uu- dem royal borough of Saab. 2. Akrabose (in the ablatiTa on, Geoig. Bavemia, iv. 19), or Arraboka, m its later hnn. was a city of Pannonia stuated near the junction of the rirer Arrabo with iha Danabe. It was a [Jaro of some iiiiponanH under the lower emjdre, and was garrisoned by detachments ttf the tenth aad fonrteenih legions. It is [robably the At^BOS ('A^w) of Polybhis (ii. II). The nyal bocongh of itaab corresponda Dnirly with the ancient Arrabo. (IL Anion, f. 246; Toi. Pailiiigtr. ; fiolitia /»- perii.) [W. B. D.] A'RRABON, A'BRAGON. [Araqiis.] ARBE'CH! ('A^qxoO. * tnba of the Huotao, on the £. ude of the Palus Maeotis (Stiah. li. p. 495; Sleph. B. ». o. ; Flin. vi, 7) ; probably ilie Arichi CAcxo') of Ptolsmy <v. 9, 1 18). [P. S.] ARRET1UM('A^Mtio^; £■(*. 'A^tp-EKiJ, Are- tinns,Plin.; but inacriptlons have always Arretinui: Artiao), one of the most ancient and powerful cilira of Etruria, situated in the upper valley of the Annu, about 4 miles S. of that river. SIrabo says that it was the most inland city of Etmria, near the foot of the Apennines, and reckons it 1,200 stadia from Rome, which rather exceeds the truth. Tbe Itine- raries place it on the Via Ckidia. SO M. P. from Horentia, and 37 from Clnsium. (Strab. i. p.SSS; Itin. Ant. p. 285 ; Tab. Pent.) Alt accounts agree iu representing it as in early ages one of the moat important arid powerful cities of Ktmria, and It was unqoestinnably one of the twelve which compwed the confederation (Miilier, Etruiktr, vol. i. p. 34S), though, io conequence of its remoteness from Rome, we liear comparatively liltio of it in history. It is first mentioned during the rtign of Tarqmnius Prii- cos, when we are told that five of th6 Etruscan cities, Arretium, Clusium, VoUWrrae. Butellae, and Vetulonia, united their anna with the latins and Sabines agwnat the growing power of the Reman king. (Dionys. iii. 51.) From this time ire hear citenston of the Roman arma again brooght them into c^illiHOii with the more distant cities of Etmria ; but among these Arretium seems to have been the least hostile in its disposition. In B. C. 309 we ais hat it was the only one of tha Etruscan cities L did not join in the war against Rome, and thouj-h it appeals to hare been subsequently drawn the league, it hastened in the fbllowing year f>