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  AUDUS. 157. X Ereclitheis. 158. Xoafy6s {KoXofryla) Xokafyt^s Acamantis Acamantis. 159. XoAAciSoi (KoAA/dcu) Xoe<8i}s Leoutis Acgeis. 160. rna. see "Oo.] Va^lhis Acantis.

 ATTI'CITUS (, Ptol. v. 9), or ANTICEITES (, Strab. xi. pp. 494, 495), a great river in the country of the Maeotae, in Sarmatia Asiatica, with two mouths, the one falling into the Pains Maeotis, and the other into the Eaxine; but the latter formed first the lake of Corocondametis, so named from the town of Corocondame. It is evidently the Kuban. According to Strabo, it was also called Hypanis, and Ptolemy calls its southern arm Vardanes.

 ATTI'DIUM, a town of Umbria, mentioned only by Pliny, who enumerates the Attidiates among the inland towns of that province (iii. 14. s. 19). But its existence as a municipal town is confirmed by inscriptions (Holsten. Not. ad Cluver, p. 83; Orell. Inscr. 88), and there is little doubt that the "Attidiatis ager" mentioned in the Liber de Coloniis (p. 252) among those of Picenum is only a corruption of "Attidiatis." The site is clearly marked by the village of Attigio, situated in the upper valley of the Aesis, about 2 miles S. of the modern city of Fabriano, to which the inhabitants of Attidium appear to have migrated in the middle ages. Some ruins and numerous inscriptions still remain at Attigio. (Cluver. Ital. p. 614; Calindri, Statistica del Pontificio Stato, p. 115; Ramelli, Iscrizioni di Fabriano, in Bull. d. Inst. 1845, p. 127.)

 A'TTUBI or A'TUBI (prob. Espejo, on the Guadajoz, a colony in Hispania Baetica, with the surname Claritas Julia, belonging to the conventus of Astigi. (Plin. iii. 1. s. 3; Mariana, iii. 21; Florez, Esp. Sagr. ix. 54, x. 149, xii. 303; Volk- mann, Reisen, voL ii. p. 18; Ukert, voL ii. pt 1. p. 366.)

 ATTU'DA (AttowSo: Eth. 'Attow8«i;«), a town of Caria, or of Phrygia, as some suppose, noticed only by Hierocles and the later authorities. But there are coins of the place with the epigraph 'Upa Bouri ^ArrouBdw, of the time of Augustus and later. The coins show that the Men Cams was worshipped there. An inscription is said to show that the site is that of Ypsili Hissarj south-east of Aphrodiaas in Caria. (Cramer, Asia Minora vol. ii. p. 55 ; Forbiger, voL ii. p. 235.)

 ATUATICI. [.]

 ATU'RIA [.]

 ATU'RIA (prob. Oria) a river of Hispania Tarrnconensis, in the territory of the Vascones. (Mela, iii. 1; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1, p. 300.)

<section end="ATURIA" /> <section begin="ATURUS" />A'TURUS (Adour) as Lucan (i. 420) names it, or ATURRUS (Auson. Mosell. v. 467), a river of Aquitania. Vibius Sequester has the name Atyr (ed. Oberl. p. 68), which is the genuine name, unless we should write Atur. The Adur of Sussex is the same name. Ptolemy's form Aturis is the Aquitanian word with a Greek termination. The Aturus is the chief river of Aquitania. It drains some of the valleys on the north face of the western part of the Pyrenees, and has a course of about 170 miles to the Bay of Biscay, which it enters below Bayonue. The town of Aquae Augustae was on the Atums. The poets call the river Tarbellicus,| fromthe name of the Tarbelli, an Aquitanian people who occupied the fiat coast north of the mouth of the Adour.

It seems that there was a tribe named Atum (Tibull. i. 7, according to the emended text) or Aturenses: probably this was a name given to the inhabitants of the banks of the Atur.

<section end="ATURUS" /> <section begin="ATUSA" />ATU'SA, a town m Ass}Tia, the exact site of which has been much questioned. It has, however, been determined lately, by the publication of a very rare and almost unique cdn, bearing the inscription SifUoge of UnediUd Coins, 4to. 1837). It had, indeed, been noticed previously, and correctly, by Weston (Archaeol. xvi. pp. 9 and 89), though Sestini (Letter, Numism. Ser. ii. vol. vi. p. 80) questioned the attribution, on insufiici^ent grounds. The fa- bric, form of the inscription, the arrow symbolical of the Tigris (Strab. xi. p. 529). all combine to refer the coin to a country in that part (X Asia, and, if the coin be evidence enough, to a city on the Caprus, now Lesser Zab. The name, too, is probably Assyrian, and may be derived either from Atoesa, which was a naticmal Assyrian name (Euseb. Ckron. an. 583; Conon, vi.), or else a modification of t&o ancient name Aturia. [.] A passage of Pliny (v. 40), where the name Attusa occurs, is manifestly corrapt Cramer, on the authority of a single autonomoua coin, speaks of Atusia, a city of Phrygia, on the river Caprus, which flows into the Maeander; bnt he pro- bably refers to the coin mentioned above. (Cramer, Asia Minor^ vol. iu p. 55.)
 * Aroxf(nwv r&v irpibs rbv Kowpov (Millingen,

<section end="ATUSA" /> <section begin="AUALITES SINUS" />AUALI'TES SINUS (KhaXirni ic6itot, Steph. B. 8. v.y *A$aklrfis in some manuscripts of Ptolemy, iv. 7. §§ 27, 39 ; Plin. vi. 29. s. 34; Arrian. Perip. Mar. Eryth. p. 6: Eth. AvoXirt^f), the modern Zeyla, in Abyssinia, was a deep bay on the eeu>tem coiUJt of Africa, in lat. 1 1° N., SW. of the Straits of JBab-el'Man-deb. At the head of the bay was a toiivn Avalites; and the inhabitants of the immediate district were called Avalitae. They were dependent upon the kingdom of Axum.

<section end="AUALITES SINUS" /> <section begin="AUASIS" />AUA'SIS. [.]

<section end="AUASIS" /> <section begin="AUDUS" />AUDUS, a river of Mauretania Caesariensis (aft. Sitifensis), falling into the Sinus Numidicus (G. of Boujayah). It is placed by Ptolemy 10' W. of Igilgilis (Jijeli), a position which identifies it, according to Pellissier, with a river called Wad-el-Jenan, not marked on the maps. If so, the promontory Audum, which Ptolemy places 10' W. of the Audus, would be C. Cavallo. (Ptol. iv. 2. §§ 10, 11). But, on the other hand, Ptolemy seems to make Audum the W. headland of the Sinus Numidicus (C. Carbon or Ras Metznkoub); and; if this be its true position, the Audus might be identified with the considerable river Sumeim, falling into the gulf E. of Boujayah, and answering (on the other supposition) to the Sisar of Ptolemy. Mannert solves the difficulty by supposing that here (as certainly sometimes happens) Ptolemy got double results from two inconsistent accounts, and that his

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