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 BABDEBATE. Mek (ii. 6) menUons it amoDg tfafe small towns of the dikrict, probablj as it waa eclipsed by its neigb- boor Tanraco; bat it maj be gathered from later miteiB that it gradually grew in wealth and coDse- qaenoe, favoared as it was with a beantifal sitoation and an ezoellent haiboor. (Arien. Or. Mar, L c, ; " £t Barcilonnm amoena sedes ditiam.") It enjoyed immunity from imperial burthens. (Paul. Dig. 1. tit 15, de Cens.) In modem times it has entirely supplanted Tabraco in importance, owing to its submitting to the Moors when they destroyed the latter city. As the land has gained upon the sea along this coast, the modem city stands for the most part £. of the ancient (mm, only a portion of the site being common to the two. The rains of the andent dty are inconsiderable; they are described by Laborde (//•Vb. de FEtpagrtej yol. ii. p. 41» 3rd ed.), Minano iDhdom. I. c), and Ford (ffandbooi of Spain, p. 229). There is a coin of Galba, with the epigraph, col. BARCUio. FAVEimA. (Baschs, Lex, Hei Num. «. r.) [P. S.] BABDEBATE, a town of Liguria, included by Pliny (iii. 5. s. 7) among the " nobilia oppida " of the interior of that province, between the Apennines and the Padus; but notwithstanding this epithet, we find no otiier mention of the name; and its situ- ation is wholly unknown. The modem town of Bra, supposed by some writers to occupy its site, is certainly too near Pollentia. [£. H. B.] BABD1NE& [Ghrtsorrhoas.] BABDO, a dty of Hispania Ulterior, mentioned br Livy (xxiii. 21). Its site is not known. [P. S.] ' BABE'A (Bo^c/o, PtoL ii. 4. §8; Baria, Geogr, Bar. iv. 42: Vera a town of the Bastuli, on the coast of Spain, in the extreme S£., reckoned aa be- longing to the proTinoe of Baetica, though within the bwindaries of Tarraconensis. (Plin. iiL 8. s. 4, adeeriptum Baeiicae Barea; Florez, Esp. S, z. 4, iz. 4; coins, Sestini, p. 35.) [P. S.] BAliOASA (Bdpyaea: Elk, Bapyaffiir6s), a city of Caria. The Ethnic name is given by Ste- pfaanus Ml the authori^ of ApoUonius in his Carica, There are also coins of Bar^isa with the epigraph BapymniyAy. It is mentioned by Strabo (p. 656), who, after speaking of Cnidos, says, ** then Ceramus and Bargasa, smdl pkces above the sea.'* The next place that be mentions is Halicamassus. Bar- gasa is therefore between Cnidus and Halicamassus. Leake phuxis Baigasa in his map, by conjecture, at the head of the gulf of Cos, at a pboe which he marks DjowUa; this seems to be the Giva of Cramer. Keither of them states the authority for this position. [G. L.] BABGULUM, a town in Epelrus of uncertain site. (Liv. xzix. 13.) BABGU'SII (BofTo^ioi), one of the lesser peojJes £. of the Ilergetes, in Hispania Tarraconensis, pro- bably along the river Sagarra, (Polyb. iii. 35 ; Liv. xxi. 19, 23; Steph. B. #.v.; Ukert, Geoffraphie, Tol U. pt. 1, p. 427.) [P. S.] BABGY'LIA (tA BofyyvAfa: Eth. BapyvXidrris: and Bareyletes, Cic ad Fatn. xiii. 56), a city of Caria (Steph. i. v.), "which the Carians name Andanus, calling it a foundation of Adiilles; and it is near lasus and Myndus." Mela (i. 16), who calls it BargyloH, also places it on the bay of lasus; and the bay of lasus was also called Baigylieticus. (Liv. xxxvii. 17; Polyb. xvi. 12.) Chandler, who was in these parts, could not find Bargylla. Leake BABIUM. 379 oonjectnres that it may be on the bay between Pcuha Litndne and At^ Kdlesu There was at Baigylia a statue of Artemis Cin- dyas under the bare i>ky, probably in a temple, about which statue the incredible stoiy waa told, that neither rain nor snow ever foil on it. (Polyb. xvL 12; oomp. the oormpt pcissage in Strabo, p. 658, and Groskurd's note, vol. iii, p. 54.) Philip III. of Macedonia had a garrison in Bargylia which the Bo> mans required him to withdraw as one of the terms of peace (Liv. xxxiii. 30; Polyb. xvii. 2, xviii.31); and the Bargyliatae were declared free. [G. L.] BABIS (Bdfiis), a mountain of Armenia, situated, according to Nicholas of Damascus (Joseph. AtUiq, i. 3. § 26), near the district of Minyas, the Minni of Scripture. According to this historian it was this place where the ark rested before the deluge. St Martin {Mim. tur VArmenie, vol. i. p. 265) iden- tifies it with Mt. VaraZf situated in the centre of Armenia. (Comp. Chesney, Exped. Euphrai. vol. ii. p. 7; Bitter, Erdhmde, vol. x. p. 83.) [E. B. J; BABIS, a river of Limtrica, in India. [P. S.] BABIS. [Veretum.] BA'BIUM (Bdpiov, BopTyof : Eth, Barinus), a maritime dty of Apulia, atuated on the coast of the Adriatic, about 75 miles from Bmndusium, and 36 from the mouth of the Aufidns. (Strabo, vi. p. 283, gives 700 stadia for the former, and 400 for the latter distance; but both are greatly overstated. Comp. Itin. Ant. p. 1 1 7 ; Tab. Pent ; and Bomanelli, vd. ii. p. 160.) It is still called Bart, and is now one of the most considerable cities in this part of Italy, but does pot appear to have enjoyed equal consideration in andent times. No mention of it is found in history previous to the conquest of Apulia by the Bomans, and we have no account of its origin, but its cdns attest that it had early recdved a great amount of Greek influence, probably from the ndgh- bouring dty of Tarentum ; and prove that it must have been a place of some ronsideration in the 3rd century b. c. (Millingen, NumumaHque de Fltalie, p. 149 ; Mommsen, JDas Romuche Muneweeen, p. 335.) It is incidentally mentioned by Livy (xl. 18), and noticed by Horace as a fishing-town. (Bart moenia piscoai^ Sat. i. 5, 97.) Tadtus also men- tions it as a Mnnidpium of Apulia, and the name is found in Strabo, Pliny, and the other geographers among the towns belonging to that province. (Tac. Ami. xvi. 9; Strab. vi. p. 283; Plin. iii. 11. s. 16; PtoL iiL 1. § 15; Mda, ii. 4; Lib. Colon, p. 211.) Its position on the Via Appia or Traiana, as well as its port, contributed to preserve it from decay, but it does not seem to have risen above the condition of an ordinaiy municipal town until after the fall of the Western Empire. But in the 10th centuiy, after its possession had been long disputed by the L<nn- bards, Saracens, and Greeks, it fell into the hands of the Greek emperors, who made it the capital of Apulia, and the residence d[ the Catapan or governor of the province. It still contains near 20,000 in- habitants, and is the see of an archbishop and the chief town of the province now called the Terra di Bari No vestiges of antiquity remain there, except several inscriptions of Boman date; but excavations in the neighbourhood have brought to light numerous painted vases, which, as well as its coins, attest the influence of Greek art and civilization at Barium. (Bomanelli, vol. iL p. 158; Swinbume's Travels, Tol. i. p. 191 — 200; Giustiniani, Diz. Geogr. vol. iL p. 178 — 197.) A cross road leading direct from Barium to Tarentum is mentioned in the Itin. Ant.