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 BATHYS POKTUS. BATHTS P0RTU8. [Aulb.] BATIAE (BarUu), m town of Thesprotia in Epeinu, mentianed akng with Elateia, and sitnated in the interior in the neighbourhood of Pandoda. (Strab. vii. p. 324; Theopomp. ap. Harpocrat «. v. BATIA'NA, in Gallia NaiiMnensis, ia placed m the Table between Acnnam (Aneone^ and Valentia ( Vaimce). It appears in the geographer of Ravenna, under the name Vatiana. D'Anvilk fixes the posi- tion at BaisBj on the west bank of the Bhone; bnt Walckenaer {GSoff, &c, toL ii p. 204) ptaoes it opposite to Baix, at a place named Bcma, which b the same name as the Vandanis of the Jemsalem Itin. Probablj there was a road on both sides of the river between Valentia and Acanora. [6. L.] BATI'KI (BarciMiQ, a German tribe, which Ptolemj (ii. 11. § 20) places between Mount Sudeta and Ascabnigius. Some believe the Badni to hare beea the same as the Butones, who, together with other tribes, were subdued by Maroboduus. (Strab. viL p. 290, where however Cramer reads Tommv^s.) Modem writers connect the names Budissin or Budia with the ancient BntinL (See Kruse, Btt- dbryft, p. 113.) [L. S.] B ATINUS, a river of Picenum, mentianed onty bj Plinj (iit. 13. s. 18), who places it between the Vomanus {Vomano)^ and the Tmentus (TrbcL cmd FoR, voL iv. p. 144; St Martin, note* on Le Beau, ▼oL iii. p. 56.) According to Amm. Maroellinus (xiv. 3. § 3) it was a municipal town in the district of Anthemuaia, built by the Macedonians at a little distance from the Euphrates. Many opulent traders resided here, and during the month of September a laige fair was held, which was attended by mer- chants finom India and China. Dion Caseins men- tions that Trajan, after his capture of Batnae and Kisibis, assumed the name of Parthicus. At Batnae it is recorded that the emperor Julian met with one of those disastrous presages which had so much influence upon him. (Amm. Marc, zzlii. 2.) Zo- flimns (iii. 12) merely mentions his march from it to Carrhae. Procopius (J9. P. il 12) describes it as a small and unimportant town at about a day's jooiney from Edessa, which was easily taken by Choaroes. Justinian afterwards fortified it, and it became a phM» of some consideraticML (Procop. De Aedif. xti. 8.) The Syrian Christiais called this city Batna Sanigi, or Batna in Sarugo. (Assemanni, BSbL OrienL vol. L pi 285.) Aftenrards the name of Batnae seems to have given way to that of Sarug; and under that title its later history is fully given in Aasemann (BiblwikKa OrieiUcUis). In the Pen- tinger Tables it appears under the name of Batnis, between Tbiar (Deoera) and Charris (Carrhae), and the Antonine Itinerary places it at 10 M. P. from Edessa; the unintelligible affix of ** Mari " to the name being, acoordiug to Wesseling, an abbreviation of '* Mnnidpium.** This place is mentioned also 1^ Hieroelee. Colonel Cbraney speaks of remains of this dty, and describes two colossal unfinished lions at Atian Tdffh^ about 8 miles S. of Batnae, as of peculiar interest. {Exped. EupkraL voL i. p. 1 1 4.) BAULI. 389 The ruins of which Lord PoHington ( Joinui/ Geog. Soc. vol. x. p. 451) speaks as being on the road from Edessa to Bir, are conjectured by Ktter to belong to this place. {Erdhtrnde, voL xi. p. 282.) 2. A village of Syria, which has often been con- founded with the cil7 of the same name on the other side of the Euphrates; according to the Antonine Itinerary it was situated between Beioea and Hiera- polis, 54 M P. from the fimner, and 21 M. P., or, according to the Peutinger Tablea, 18 M P. from the latter. It is to this jdace that the weO-ksown descriptioo of Julian, BapiofUKhv irofia revro, x*^ pUw ^orlr *EXXiiviKiif (EfitL 27), appUes. The emperor describes it as rituated in a grove of cy- presses, and prefers it to Osaa, Pelion, and Olympus. Abdlfedi (Tab. Syr. p. 192) speaks of it in a man- ner to justify these praises. [E. B. J.] BATRASABBES (or Batnsaves), a town of the Omani (now Oman) in Arabia, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, and near to Cape Mussendom (Plin. vi. 28. s. 32), identical in situation with the Black Mountains and Cape of Asabi, and still marked by a town and district named Sabee, dose to C. Mussen- dom. (Forster, Arabia, vol. ii. p. 225.) [G. W.] BATULUM, a town of Campania, mentxined by Viigil (Aen. viL 739) in conjunction with Rufhie and Celenna; and by Silius ItaKcus (viii. 566), who associates it with Mucrae and Bovianum. The latter author deariy regards it as a Samnite city; but Virgil seems to be enuroemting only places which a^oined the Campanian plain, and Servius in his note aa the passage calls both Bnfrae and Batulum " castella Campaniae, a Samnitibns con- dita." The name is not mentioned by any other author, and its site is wholly unknown. [£. H. B.] BAUDOBRICA is placed in the TaUe, where it is named Bontobrice, above Confluentes {Coblenx) at the junction of the Bhine and Moset The Notitia places it between Coblens and Bingen. h is twice mentioned in the Antonine Itin., under the name of Baudobrica; but it is erroneously placed between Antunnacum (Andemadit) and Bonn. The distances in the Table and the column of Tongem, where it is named Bondobrica, fix the site at Bop- part, whidi is on the west bsjik of the Rhine, be- tween Oberwetd and Coblenz, The name Boppart is the same as the name Bobnrdia, which occura in mediaeval documents. [G. L.] BAULI (Ba£of), a place on the coast of Cam- pannt, between Baiae and Cape Misenum. It was merely an obecure village before it became, in com- mon with the neighbouring Baiae, a place of resort for wealthy Romans; but late writers absurdly de- rived its name from Boaulia (Boo^Aia), and pre- tended that Hercules stabled his oxen there; whence Silius Italicus calls it " Herculei Bauli.** (xli. 156 ; Serv. adAen.vi, 107; Symmaeh. Ep. i. 1.) The orator Hortensius had a villa here with some re- markable fish-ponds, which were the wonder of his contemporaries; they afterwards passed into the possession of Antonia, the wifs of Dntsus^ (Van*. R. R. iii. 17 ; Plin. ix. 55. s. 81.) It is in this villa that Cicero lays the scene of his sui^raeed dia- logue with Catulns and Lucnllus, which forms the second book of the Academics. (Cic. Acad. ii. 3, 40.) Nero afterwards had a villa here, where Agripinna landed, and was received by him just be- fore he caused her to be put to death. Dion Cas- sius represents it as the actual scene of her murder, but, from the more detwled narrative of Tacitus, ii
 * £c(rcia ; Leake, Northern Greeoey tqL iy. p. 74.)