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 AXYLU3. Doric Grnk d tho ialmd. On unother iiucription vu 1 dociM of 1 " toaunon jbisembly of the Cre- tam," ui iniUia of the well known Spirrtlum, u it wu called The eoina <:f Ame present tjpe» of Zens uid Apollo, u might be eifrcUd in m dtj ■itnated on the ilopea of Hi, Ida, imd the foundation of which was, by one of the Ii^eDds, oBcribad to a MO of Apdlo. The aiCnation aneven (o one cf the mtjjnUt^ka of the some ; it was called Aiu) bcoiue thje place ia predpituu, that word being need by the Cretani in the eame lenee that the other Gredu ■auffned to tyiiSi, a cng. (Hoeck, Krela, tdI. L p. 397.) tEB-J] A'XTLUS, a wDodlcn tnct In Asia Minor, " Doithwaid of the r^ion of Uka and (duns, tbrongh wbich leoda the roui fran Afionm Konduuili to Kdok and Erkle, a dry and Daktd region, which extend* oi lor aa the Saneuiua and Bolje." (Leake, Alia Minor, p. 65.) Livj (uiriii. 18) deecribes the A^lns as eotirelj daticule of wood; the in- haUtonta ntcd dried cow-dung for foeL Pococke, who tnTcrted port of the conatiy, epnki of the people ai bang much distieued foi foel, old com- nMoly nnng oow-duDg. He might have found the lonM thing dni« in HiDe porta of EngUod. (Com- nn Hamilton, toI. i. pp. 44S, 46S, as to the Aij- liu.) The RiBzion coniul Manlius marched through the AijluB to in7.de Gulatin. Put of this wood- leea region was included in Pbrygii, nnd port in Go- lolia ood Ljcaonia. The high pLateaua north of irinHaaiid£rjUearethenionntun-pliuns(jf>oirMia), 01 SDobo (p, S68) lenns them, of the Ljcaaniuig, cold, treelea and wateriiu, bnt well adopted for obeep-feeding. [G. L.I ALA, town of Aitnenio, mentioned by p!iny (•L ID). According (o the Anton. Itinerary it was 3fi U. P. fmm Sotala; it ie coi^ectuitd to be the (ome place oa the Honis of the Pentinger Tablee, which ia distant from ^tota 25 H. P. [E. B. X] A'ZAL! ("AfoAoi), o tribe in Upper Pannonio, from which, perhaps, the modem town of Oxat, derina ita name. (Ftol. iL U. S 2; Plin. J7. JV. in. 38.) [L. S.] AZA'NES CAfimi). It is rioted by Arondell (Atia Sfinor, toI. ii. p. 140) that, on a coin of Thsnisoninm in Phrygia, is o riyer.god, with the Home of Azonro, " eridencs of Bome river being ot or HOT TfanniHiuiun.' The site of Themisoninm doea not appear to be quite certain; and nothing more ■cema to be known d the river Aionee, Ihoogh the OM nome. con hardly be' doubted. [G. I,.] AZATiES. [Arcadia.] AZA'NI (Aiattl : EA. -Afwd^i), *a the name apiaan in Slroho (p. 576), ond Slepbonua («. c. 'Afuwl) The name en cdns and inscriptions ia Aifa»l,and also in Herodion, the gnunmarion, oa quoted by Stephonus. Aioni is o city of rbrygia EfietOat. The district, which Hiia called Azonitis, coDtoined the eonrces of the river Khyndactia. This ploce, which iihiitciicollj unknown, contoina AZAKI. ns3 verj eiteaiire mina, which were first visited in 182* by the EoH of Aahbnmham (Ainndell'i Asia Minor, vol. il p. 347) 1 it hod been incormtly staled (Cmmer's Atia Mimtr, vol. ii. p. 14) that the mini were discovered by Dr. HiU. They have tinea been viailed by several other travellers The remoini ore ol o place called TchaBduvr-IIiaar, on Ibe left bonk of the Rhyndocns. There ore two Roman bridgee with elliptical onhea over the Rhyndocoa ; or three according to Fellowo. (Han, p. 141.) On the leflbonk of the Bhjndocna, on * alight eminence, is a beautiful Ionic lemple, "one of the moet perfect now existing in Asia Minor," (Hamillon, Retcarcka, ^., vol. i. plot.) Eighteen eolnmna and one aide and end of the cello m atandiDg. There ore olao tbe eoloaaol fonnditiona of onotbertnnple; ond eoma remaina of a third. The theatre is sitnated near holf a mile from the lemple and there ia o atadiom which " extends north and aonlb in a dirvct line of prqlongation from the theatre, with wbich it is immedinteij connecled, although at a lower level. Some of the moible Ecati, both in the elidium and in the theatre, a« well preserved, and of highly finished wtskmonsUp." (Hamillon.) There ia a view of the temple of Aioni in Feliows' Asia Minor (pp. 137, 141). " There ore many finals of tombs aculptured oa doors with ponels and devicea, having inacripticHis.'' (Fellows, who hna given ■ drowing oF one of IhcM doore.) Among the coina which HomUlon procured at this place, and in the sor- ronnding eoonby, Ibero were cdns of Angualus, CUudias, Faustina, and other imperial personages. Some alao were autonomona, the legends being Aij/uir, 'ifa BovA)], or 'pailvvK>-ij70% AifavaiToiv, or Aifavirw. Several bscriptiona from Azoni liave been copied by Fellows (p. 142, &c), and by Homilton (Appendix, 8— £0), None of Ihe in- Bcriplions ore of early date, and proUbly all of thcnt belong to the Roman period. One of Ibeae records " the great, both benefactor and aovicair ond founder (Bitbtok) ; and the monnmenl was erected by bis native city. This Stralonicua, we may infer from the name Claudiua, was a native, who had obtained the Roman ciliiensbip The memorial naa erecled in the second proetorship (to fl eipanrrnvrrBi) nf CI. Apollinoriua. Another inscription contains the oanol formula, 4 BovAt; inu & Arjfios. In the interior of the cella of the lemple I acriplion another i I fori Ulterior Greek characlera, and two in badly cut Roman characten. There are also inscri|,tiona on the outside of the cella. It appears from one infcriplion that Ute temple, which ia now atandinf, was dedicated to Zeua.