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 jgnatns about a. d. 14, after the oonqnest of Baetia bj Dmsus. This is no doubt the place to which Tacitus (Germ. 41) applies the expression "splendidisdma Raetiae provinciae colonia." During the second half of the fourth century the Bomans withdrew their garrison, and the place was give^i up to the Alemanni, under whom it soon became again a town of great eminence. (Sext. Ruf. 10; Ptol. ii. 12. § 3; comp. Van Raiser, Die Rom, Denkmäler zu Augsburg, 1820. 4to.) [L. S.]

AUGUSTOBONA. [Tricasses.]

AUGUSTOBRl'GA (: Eth, Augustobrigenses). 1 . A city of Lusitania, on the road from Emerita to Toletum, 56 M. P. from the fanner and 55 from the latter. (Itm, Ant p. 438.) It teems to correspond to Puente de Ar^(^n8p0y on the N. bank of the Tagus: others seek it at VUlar Pedroao. (Ukert, vol. ii.pt, 1. p. 396.)

2. A city of the Vettones in Lusitania, probably near Ciudad Rodrigo, (Ptol. ii. 5. § 9.) It is uncertain which of the above is the stipendiary town of Pliny (iv. 22. s. 35.)

3. (Aldea el muro, near Soria), a city of the Pelendones, in Hispania TarraconensiB, 23 M. P. £. of Numantia, on the road to Caesaraugusta. (Itin, AnL ^ 442; Ptol. ii. 6. § 54; Flonz, Etp. Sagr. voL xiT. p. 41; D'Anville, Mhn, de VAcad, dee Irucr. vol. xl. p. 767 ; Ukert, id. p. 454.) [P. S.]

AUGUSTODUNUM. [Bibbactte.]

AUGUSTODURUS, mentioned in the Table, is said to be Bt^feux, in the department of Caivadoa^ as the Roman milestones prove (Walckenaer, Geog, ^ YoL i. pp. 385, 396), which have been found in the neighbourhood oiBayeux^ with the name Augus- todums on them. D*Anville identified the Ara^enus of the Table with Bagettx. [6. L.]

AUGUSTOMAGUS (Senlis) is placed in the Antonine Itin. on the road between Caesaromagus (Beauvais) and Saessonae (Soissons), In the Notitia Imperii the Silvanectes are mentioned as belonging to Belgica Secunda, and the Civitas Silvanectum is mentioned in the Notitia of the provinces of Gallia. The name Silvanectes points to the modern Senlis in the department of Oise. [G. L.]

AUGUSTOMANA. [Tricasses.]

AUGUSTONE'METUM, the chief town of the Arvemi, which Strabo calls Nemossus (p. 191), and places on the Loire; but he either placed it on the Loire through mistake, or by the Loire he means that branch of the Loire called the Elaver (Allier), The name Augustonemetum occurs in Ptolemy and in the Table. The place was afterwards simply called Arverni (Amniian. xv. 11), though in the passage of Ammianus the people may be meant It seems that Pliny (34, c. 7) when he speaks of the colossal statue of Mercury made "in civitate Galliae Arvernis," must mean the city and not the territory; and this, as D'Anville observes (Notice, &c.), is singular, because the practice of giving the name of a people to the chief town of the people did not come in use until After Pliny's time. Clermont, in the Auvergne, whioh represents Augustonemetum, does not bear either the ancient name or the name of the people, but the identity is certain. An old Latin historian of Pippin, quoted by D'Anville, makes the "urbs Arverna" and "Clarus Mons," that is Clermont, identical; and Aimoin also speaks of the "Arvernis quae Clams mons didtur." Clermont Ferrand, the capital of the department of which flows into the Allier [G.L.]

AUGUSTORITUM, the capital of the Lemovioes, a Gallic tribe, the ndghbours of the Arvemi on the west. In the Table, Angus- toritum is abbreviated or corrupted into Ausrito. The Anton. Itin. between Burdigala, Bordeaux^ and Argentomagus, Argenton^ agrees with the modem measurements, and determines .the position of Au- gustoritum to be Lmogee, the fomtier capital of the Limotin. • [G. L.]

AULAEI TICHOS or CASTRUM (: Kurudere?), a Thracian town on the coast of the Euxine, south of Apollonia. ( Arrian, Peripl. p. 24.) It is probably the same place as Thera, mentioned in the Tabol. Pouting., and as the Thenu Chorion in the Periplus Anonymus (p. 14). [L. S.]

AULERCI, appears to be a generic name, which included sevend Celtic tribes. Caesar (^B. G. ii. 34) names the Aulerd with the Veneti and the other maritime states In B. G. vii. 75, he enumerates, among the clients of the Aedui, the Aulerd Bran- novices and Brannovii, as the common text stands; but the names in this chapter of Caesar are ooirupt, and ** Brannovii " does not appear to be genuine. If the name Aulerd Brannovices is genoine in vii. 75, this branch of the Aulerci, which was dependent on the Aedui, must be distinguished from those Aulerci who were situated between the Lower Seine and the Loire, and separated from the Aedui by the Senones, Camutes, and Bituriges Cubi.

Again, in vii. 75, Caesar mentions the Aulerci Cenomani and the Aulerci Eburones, as the text stands; but it is generally agreed that for Eburones we must read Ebnrovices, as in B,G,m. 17. In this chapter (vii. 75) Caesar also mentions the mari- time states (ii. 34) under the name of the Armoric states; but his list does not agree with the list in ii. 34, and it does not contain the Aulerci. Caesar (iii. 17) mentions a tribe of Diablintes or Diablintres, to whom Ptolemy gives the generic name of Aulerci. It seems, then, that Aulerd was a general name under which several tribes were included [Cenomani, DiABLDITES, EbUBOVICES]. [G. L.]

AULIS (: Eth,, fem, ), a town of Boeotia, situated on the Euripus, and celebrated as the place at which the Grecian fleet as- sembled, when they were about to sail against Troy. Strabo says that the harbour of Aulis could only hold fifty ships, and that therefore the Grecian fleet must have assembled in the large port in the ndgh- bourhood, called fiaBhs Xi/u^». (Strab. ix. p. 403.) Livy states (xlv. 27) that Aulis was distant three miles from Chalcis. Aulis appean to have stood upon a rocl^ hdght, dnce it is called by Homer (//. ii. 303) A^Als wcrp^eo-aa, and by Strabo (/. c.) wc rpiXes x^fAow, These statonents agree with the position assigned to Aulis by modem travellers. About three miles south of Chalds on the Boeotian coast are " two bays separated from each other by a rocky peninsula; the northern is small and winding, the southern spreads out at the end of a channel into a large circular basin. The latter harbour, as well as a village situated a mile to the southward of it, is called Vaihy^ a name evidently derived from (Leake.) We may therefore conclude that Aulis was situated on the rocky peninsula between these two bays.

Aulis was in the territory of Tanagra. It is called by Strabo. In the time of Pausanios it had only a few inhabitants, who were potters. Its temple of Artemis, which Agamemnon is said to have founded, was still standing when Pausaniaa