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 376 BANADEDABI. dukes ot Edom, the son of Beuel, the son of Esan. {&en.zxxvi.4; Forst6r,^raWa,Tol.ii.p.52.) [G.W.] BANADEDARI. [Arae Philajenobum.] BA'NASA (Bdvcuraa, Ptol. iv. 1. § 13), a colony of Maoretania Tingitana, founded by Augustus, and bearing the epithet of Valentia. (Plin. v. 1.) Its site is difBcnlt to fix. That it stood on the river Subur (Sebou) is clear (Plin. I c), but whether at its mouth, or higher up, is uncertain. Ptoleraj places it among the inland cities; a tenn, it is true, not used by him in the context with great strictness, but the longitude he assigns to Banasa places it some distance from the sea. Pliny seems to make it inland; and, moreover, states its distance from Lizus at 75 M. P., while he places the mouth of the Subur 50 M. P. from the same phu%. The Itinerary (p. 7) gives a distance of only 40 M. P. from Banasa to Lixos (namely, Frigidis 24, Lix co- kmia 16); and the difficulty cannot be removed by a correction <^ these numbers, for the total, from Sala to Lixus, of which they form a part, is correct. The site, if on the coast, corresponds to Mehediak; if inland to MamorOf about 30 miles higher up the river, where are considerable ruins. [P. S.] BANATIA, a town of the Vacomagi, mentioned by Ptolemy (ii. 3. § 13). Name for name, it coin- cides with JSe^m-Castle near Nairn, where, in 1460, Boman coins were found. [R. G. L] BANDOBE'NE (Baj'So^iji/^), a district in the extreme N. of India intra Gangem, about the river Choaspes. (Strab. xv. p. 697.) [P. S.] BANDUSIAE FONS, a fountain in Apulia, a Cfew miles from Venusia, celebrated by Horace in a >£ beautiful and well-known ode. {Conn, iii. 13.) '^ The name not being elsewhere mentioned, it was ^supposed by many writers, beginning with the old ^^choliast Acron (ad /oc), that the fountain in ques- .^ Mion was in the neighbourhood of his Sabine fann. V VBut the Abb^ Chaupy proved that a fountain about ^ 6 miles S. of Venusia was known, as late as the be- ^ ; x^ ginning of the 12th century, by the name of Fons ^; ^Bandusinus; and an ancient church is mentioned in ^ V ecclesiastical documents as *' eoclesiam SS. MM. '~ ^^. '^Gervasi et Protasi in Bandtuino Fonts apud Ve- ' . "inmiam." Both the church and the fountain have ' now disappeared, but the site of the former is well . ' ^ known, and immediately close to it was a copious "Itource called Fontana Grande^ the waters of which 'are still abundant, though the fountain itself has xspot. (Chaupy, DScouverte de la Mauon d Horace^ ^ vol. iii. pp. 364, 538 — 543.) The documentary evidence seems conclusive in favour of the Venusian fountain; but a source, or rather basin, not far from the site of his Sabine farm in the valley of Licema, now called Fonte BeUo^ is still shown to travellers as the Fons Bandusiae, and its claim to that dis- tinction is strenuously advocated by Dennis, in a s, ^^ ^ The name is written, in the older editions of Horace, Blandusza, but the best MSS. have Bandusia. (Obbarius, in his edition of the Odet of Horace^ Jena, 1848, has collected all the authorities upon the sub- ject in a note on the ode in question.) [E. H. B.] BANIA'NA. [TuRDULi.] BANIENSES. [Nobba Caesarea.] BANIZOMENES, a maritime tribe of the west- em coast of Arabia, towards the north of the Red Sea, situated next to the country of the Nabataei. Diodorus (iii. 43) describes their coast as a bay 500 fltqdia deep, the month of which is so obstru^^ by BAPHYRAS. pred^tous rocks as to be inaccessible lb ships. The inhabitants lived on the produce of their hunting. There was there a most sacred temple, held in great veneration by all the Arabs. Burckhardt describes )m Beni-Omrama inhabiting "the mountains be- tween Akaba and Moeyleh, on the eastern coast of the Red Sea;" and there is perhaps sufficient simi- krity between the names to justify Forster's identi- fication, particularly if, as is said, the description of the gulf and of the three adjacent islands, in Dio- dcnrus, exacUy corresponds with tike Bay of Moilah, and the three islands off it to the south. (Forster, Arabia, vol. i. p. 323, ii. p. 117.) [G. W.] BANNA. [Petkia»a.] BANNIO. [Gobannio.] BANNOMANNIA- [Mentonomon.] BANOVALLUM. [Isannavatia.] BA'NTIA (Borrta: Eih, Bantinns), a small to^n about 13 miles SE. of Venusia. PUny reck<»is the Bantini among the Lucanians; but Livy speaks of it as in Apulia, and Acron, in his notes on Ho- race, also calls it expressly " civitas Apuliae." Horace himself alludes to it as one of the places, in the neighbourhood of Venusia, familiar to his boy- hood ; and his expressions indicate this wooded cha- racter of its territory. {Saltui BaniinoSy Hor. Carm. iii. 4, 15; Plin. iii. 11. s. 16; Liv. xxvii. 25; Acrcxi, ad loc.) An ancient abbey, named Sta, Maria di Bami, still marks its site, and Holstenius (Not. m Cbtver, p. 202) tells as Jthat in his time some remains of tiie ancient town were visible in its iminediate neighbourhood. The district is still covered with a thick forest, now called Botco deU* Abadia, (Romanelli, vol. ii. p. 241.) It was aroraig the wooded hiUs between Bantia and Venusia that the Roman consuls M. Marcellus and T. Quinctins Cris- pinos encamped in b. c. 208, and where the skirmish took place in which Marcellus was killed, and his colleague mortally wounded. (Liv. xxvii. 25 — 27.) We learn from inscriptions that Bantia enjoyed the rights of a Municiiuum under the Roman Empire ; and one of the most interesting monuments of its class is a bnxize tablet, commonly known as the Tabula Bantina, which was discovered in the year 179 J, at Oppido, 8 miles from Banziy^ This con-y^^ tains a Roman law, or plebis-scitum, reuLtive to the^f municipal affairs of Bantia, and derives its chief in- terest from the circumstance that it is written both in Latin and Oscan, of which last language it is one of the most important relics. (Mommsen, Unter Italischen DialekU, p. 145—168 ; Bullett. dell ImL ArcL 1847, p. 157.) [E. H. B.] BA'NTIA (Bcu^r^a), a town of the Calicoeiii, in the district of Dassaretia in lllvria. (Polyb. v. 108.) BANTOMANNIA. [Mentonomon.] BANU'BABI (Bai/o<t€apoi a people of the west coast of Arabia, situated between the Darrae on the north, and the Arsae on the south, towards the north f letter inserted in Milman's Life of Horace (p. 103)3^ of the modem district oiHedjaz, (PtoL vL 7. § 4; yr.j/ Forster, Arabia, vol. ii. pp. 127, 129.) [G. W.] BAPHYRAS, or BA'PHYRUS (Bo^iJ/wO, * small river of Macedcmia, flowing by Dium through marshes into the sea. It was celebrated for the excellence of its rci;6£8ef, or cuttle-fish. (Liv. xliv. 6 ; Athen. vii. p. 326, d. ; Lycophr. 274.) Pau- sanias (ix. 30. § 8) relates that this was the same river as the Helicon, which, af^er flowing 75 sta- dia above ground, has then a subterraneous course of 22 stadia, and on its reappearanQe is navigable under the name of Baphyras. (Leake, Nw^^em Greece, vol. iii. p. 41 1.)
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