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 2126 ARSINOE. ! its eartier name was Taucbeira or Teucheira. [Taucheira.] [P. S.] 8. A place on the coast of Cilicia, mentioned hj Strabo (p. 670) as having a port. Leake places it at or near the rained modem castle, called Sokhta Kdksif below which is a port, such as Strabo de- scribes at Arsinoe, and a peninsula on the east side of the harbotir covered with rains. (^Asia Minor ^ p. 201.) This modem site is east of Anemaiiam, and west of, and near to, Gape Kidiman. (Beaa- fort's Kca-amania), [G. L.] 9. [Patara.] 10. In Aetolia. [Conope.] ARSISSA. [Arsene.] ARTABIA, ARTABIUS. [Arabis.] ARTABRI CAfwoSpoi, *Apivrp4€ou, Arrotrebae), a people in the extreme NW. of Hispania Tnrra- conensis, aboat the promontory Neriom (C7. Finis- tei're), and aroand a bay called by their name [Artabrorum Sinus], on which there were several sea-port towns, which the sailors who freqaented them called the Ports of the Artabri (^PipriSpiav tfi4vas), Strabo states that in his time the Artabri were called Arotiebae. He places them in Lusitania, which he makes to extend as far as the N. coast of the peninsula. We may place them along that part of the coast of GdHicia^ which looks to the NW. be- tween C. OrtegcU and C. Finitterrt (Strab. iii. pp. 147, 153, 154 ; Ptol. ii. 6. § 22). Strabo speaks of the Celtic!, in connection with the Artabri, as if the latter were a tribe of the former (p. 153); which Mela expressly states (iii. 1. § 9 ; bat the text is doubtful). Ptolemy also assigns the district of the Aitabri to the Gallaeci Laceuses (KoAAcuitMr Aov- K7vtTla»y, ie. having Lucas Aogosti for their capital : ii. 6. §§ 2, 4). Pliny (iv. 20, 22. 8. 34, 35) places the Arro- trebae, belonging to tlie conventus cf Lncus Angusti, about the promontory Celticam, which, if not the ^same as the Nerium of the others, is evidently in its immediate neighbourhood ; but he confuses the whole matter by a very curious error. He mentions a promontory called Ajtabmm as the headland at the NW. extremity of Spain ; the coast on tiie one side of it looking to the N. and the Gallic Ocean, on the other side to the W. and the Atlantic Ocean. But he considers this promontory to be the IF", head- land of the estuary of the TaguSj and adds that some called it Magnum Pr., and others Olisipone, from the city of Olisipo (^Lisbon). He assigns, in iiict, all the W. coast of Spain, down to the mouth of the Tagus, to the N. coast ; and, instead of being kd to detect his error by the resemblance of name between his Artabrum Pr. and his Arrotrebae (the Artabri of his predecessors, Strabo and Mela), ho pen^ersely finds fault with those who had placed about the promontory Artabnmi a people of the Fame name, who never were there (ibi gentem Ar- tabrum quae nunquamfuit^ manifesto errore. Ar- rotrebas entm, quos ante Celticum diximus pro- fiMnturium^ hoc in loco posuere^ litteris permutatis: Pliii. iv. 22. 8. 35 ; comp. ii. 118, s. 112). Ptolemy (/. c.) mentions Claudioncrium (KAav^ Siov(pioy) and Novium (lioovtov) as cities of the Artabri. Strabo relates, on the authority of Posidonius, that, in the land of the Artabri, the earth on the surface contained tin mixed with silver, which, being carried down by the rivers, was sifted out by the women on a plan apparently similar to the " gold- Washingb " of California (Stmb. iii. p. 1 47).- [P.S.] ARTAGEIRA. ARTABRO'RUM PORT US CApro^pw Xi/tH a sea-port town of the Artabri (Gallaeci) S. of Pr. Nerium. (Ptol. iL 6. § 22 ; Agathem. I 4). Strabo (iii. p. 153) uses the name m the plmral for the sea-ports of the Artabri farther N. on the Bay of Ferrol tmd Corwia. [Artabri.] ARTABRO'RUM SINUS, a bay on the coast of the Artabri, with a narrow entrance, bat widening inwards, having on its shore the town of Ardo- BRicA, and rocdving four rivers, two of which were not wwth mention ; the other two were the Mearus and the Ivia or Juvia (Mela iii. 1. § 9). This description answers exactly to the great bay on the coast of GaUicia^ between La CortSia on the S and C. Friorino^ SW, of El Ferroly on the N.; which divides itself into the three bays of Corwia, Be- tamosj and El Ferroly and receives the foor riTera Mero, AfendOf Eume^ and Juvia, Of these tiie first and last, whose estuaries form respectively the bays of Cortma and El Ferroly correspond in name with Mela's rivers ; but the other two, which fall into the estuary of Betanzos^ are qnite as important in respect of their size. The bay is completely land-locked ; its coasts are bold and lofty ; but the rivers which fall into it form thoee secure harbours, which the ancient writers mention (see preceding article), aod which have been celebrated in all ages. Notwithstanding some confusion in the nnmberB of Ptolony, this is evidently liis Magnus Portos (6 fiiyas Xifiiip) on the coast of the Gallaeci La- censes (ii. 6. § 4). [P. S.] ATtTABRUM PROM. [Artabri.] ARTACANA. [Aria Civitas and Artaea.] ARTAC£ QApTweri : Eth, 'Aprakiivos^ 'Afnaxtos, ^AproKtis : ArtaJei or Erdek), a town of Mysda, near Cyzicus (Herod, iv. 14), and a Milesian coloiy. (Strab. pp. 582, 635.) It was a sea-port, and on the same peninsula on which Cyzicus stood, and about 40 stadia from it. Artace was burnt, toge- ther with Prooonnesus, during the Ionian revolt, in the reign of Darius I. (Herod, vi. 83.) Probably it was not rebuilt, for Strabo does not mention it among the Mysian towns : but he speaks (p. 576) of a wooded mountain Artace, with an island of the same name near to it, the same which Pliny (v. 32) calls Artacaeum. Timosthenes, quoted by Stepha- nus (s. V. 'ApTa'fn;), also gives Uie name Artace to a mountain, and to a small island, one stadium from the land. In the time of Prooopins, Artace had been rebuilt, and was a suburb of Cyzicus. {BelL Pers. i. 25.) It is now a poor place. (Hamilton, Researches, vol. ii. p. 97.) [G. L.] ARTACE'NE, or Aracteitb. [Arbeutes.] ARTACOANA. [Aria Civitas.] ARTAEA CAproTo, Steph. B. : Eth, "Ap- Tojoi ), a district of Persia, where, according to Hellanicos (Hellan. Fraqm, No. Ixiii. p. 97, Stura), Perseus and Andromeda founded several cities (Steph.) It is probably connected with the Par- thian Artacana of Ptolemy (vi. 5. § 4). Herodotus (vii. 61) states the native name of the Persians was Artaei ; Stephanas and Hesycliius (*.». 'A^as)say that it was a particular epithet given in the ver- nacular dialect to the heroes of ancient Persian romance (Rawlinson, AsiaU Joum. xi. pt i. p. 35), no doubt nearly connected with the ancient name of the Mcdes, Arii, with the Zend Airya, and the Sans- crit Arthva (Pott, Forschimg. &c. p. Ixix.) [V.] ARTAGEIRA, a city of Inner Libya, placed by Ptolemy on the N. side of the river Geir, in 44 .^^ long., and 18° N. lat (PtoL iv. 6. § 32). [P.S.]