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 456 BUDORU& the great primeval migration from India and Central Asia to the shores of the Maeotis, and to Northern Earope. ( Vorhalkf pp. 25 et seq., 30, 153 et seq.). It is unnecessary to discoss the various geographic cal positions assigned to them, as there are several wooded and marshy districts in Central Rnssia, which might answer to the descripti<« of Herodotus. Nearly all writers agree in placing them between tiie Don and the Volga, somewhere to the N.of theconntry of the Don Cossacks ; but the special reasons on which each writer assigns their position more particularly are rather £inciful : perhaps the most plausible view is that which places them in the government of Novgorod, and regards their wooden city as a great emporium of the ancient inland traffic, and the ori^nal of the celebrated and very ancient mart of Nijni- Novgorod, Full particukrs of the various and curious theories about this people are given by the following writers, besides those already quoted: Rennell, Geog. of Herod, vol. i. pp. 110 — 123 ; Heeren, Ideen, vd.i. pt. 2. p. 209 ; Eidiwald, Geogr, d. Casp. MeereA, pp. 276 et seq. ; Brehmer, Ent- dechungen im AUerthum, vol. L p. 484, et seq.; Georgii, Alts Geographie, vol. ii. pp. 304, et seq. ; Ukert, Geogr. d, Griech, u. Bom., vol. iii. pt 2, pp. 537, et seq., and other writers quoted by Ukert [P. S.] BUDO'RUS. I. A small river in Euboea, near CSerinthus. [Oerintuus.] 2. A promontory and fortress of Salamis. [Sa> IaAMIS.] BU'DROAE, two rocks rather than ishinds, which Pliny (iv. 12. s. 20) couples with Leuce {Hdghiot Theodhoros), as lying off the coast of Crete. Ac- cording to Hoeck (^KretUf vol. i. p. 384), their pre- «ent name is Twrlure, [E. B. J.] BULIS (BoOXis), a town of Phocis, on the frontiers of Boeotia, situated upon a hiH, and distant 7 stadia from the Crissaean gulf, 80 stadia from Thisbe, «nd 100 from Anticyra. It was founded by the Dorians under Bulon, and for this reason appears to have belonged to neither the Phocian nor tbe Boeotian confederacy. Pausanias, at least, did not regard it as a Phocian town, hince he describes it as bordering up(Hi Phocis. But Stephanus, Pliny, and Ptolemy all assign it to Phocis. Near Phocis there flowed into the sea a torrent called Heracleius, and there was also a fountain named Sauninm. In the time of Pausanias more than half the population was employed in fish- ing for the murex, which yielded the purple dye, but which is no longer caught on this coast (Paus. z. 37. § 2, seq.; Steph. B. t. v. ; Plin. iv. 3. s. 4; Ptol. iii. 15. § 18, who calls it Bo^Aeta; Plut de Prud. Anim, 31, where for Boww we ought to read Boit«fVj according to Miiller, Orch&inawt, p. 482, 2nd ed.) The harbour of Bulls, which Pausanias describes as distant 7 stadia from the city, is called Mychus (Mvx6s) by Strabo (ix. pp. 409, 423). The ruins of Bulls are situated about an hour from the monastery of Dobo, Leake describes Bulls as " occupying the summit of a rocky height which slopes on one side towards a small harbour, and is defended in the opposite di- rection by an unmense fipdxos, or lofty rock, sepa- rated by a torrent from the precipitous acclivities of Helicon." The harbour of Mychus is now called Zdlitza. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iL p. 518, se<j.) BULLA RE'GIA (Bo^AAa 'P»ryfa, Ptol. viii. 14. § 10, corrupted into BovhXapia, Ptol. iv. 3. § SO; BUPHAGIUM. Boul, Ru.), an inland town of Numidia, S. of Tha braca, and 4 days* journey WSW. of Cartilage, on a tributary of the Bagradas, the vall^ of which is still called Wad-ei- BouL The epithet R^a shows that it was either a residence or a foundaticm of the kings of Numidia, and distinguishes it from a small place of the same name, S. of Carthage, Bulla Mensa (BovWofifivca, Ptol. iv. 3. § 35). Under the Ro- mans it was a considerable place, and a liberum op- pidum, not a nnHmcipium, as Mannert asserts on the authority of an inscription at Befa, which he mistakes for the site of Bulla. (Ptin. v. 3. s. 2; Itm, Ant. p. 43; Tab, PetU.; Geogr. Rav.; Procop. B. V, i. 25). According to Ptolemy's division, Bulla R^ia was in that part of the province of Africa which he calls New Nunudia. It was one of his points of recorded astronomical observations, having its longest day 14| hours, and being distant from Alexandria 2 hours to the West [P. S.] BULLIS, or BYLLlS(BouAA(7, Ptol. iiL 13. §4; BvAXif, Steph. B.: Eth. BvWofoi, Scylax; Byllini, Liv. xliv. 30 ; BvXiov€s, Stiab. viL p. 326 ; Bul- liones, Cic. adFam. xiii. 42, PhU. xi. 11 ; Buliones, Plin. iii. 23. s. 26; BvAAiccs, Steph. B. ; Bullienses or Bullidenaes, Cic. ««t Pis. 40 ; Caes. B. C. iii. 12, Plin. iv. 10. s. 17), a Greek dty in lUyria fre- quently mentioned along with Apollonia and Aman- tia, in whose neighbourhood it was situated. Its name often occurs at the time of the civil wars (Cic. Pha. xi. 11 ; Caes. B. C, iiL 40. et alii), but of its history we have no account. In the time of Pliny it was a Roman colony, and was called Colonia BulUdensis. (Plin. iv. 1 0. s. 1 7 .) Its territory is called BuAAioic^ by Strabo (vii. p. 316), who places it be- tween Apollonia and Oricum. The ruins of Bullis were discovered by Dr. Holland at Grdditza, situated on a lofty hill on tJie right bank of the Aous ( Viotd), at some distance from the coast There can be little doubt that these ruins are those of Bullis, since Dr. Holland found there a I^atin inscription recording that M. Valerius Maximus had made a road from the Roman colony of Bullis to some other place. Stephanus and Ptolemy, however, place Bullis on the sea-^xmst ; and the narrative of Livy (xxxvi. 7), that Hannibal proposed to Antiochns to station sill his forces in the Bullinus ager, with the view of passing over to Italy, implies, that at least a part of the territory of Bullis was contiguous to the sea. Hence Leake supposes, -that both Ptolemy and Ste- phanus may have referred to a Aifi^y, or maritime establishment of the Bulhones, which at <me period may have been of as much importance as the city itself. Accordingly, Leake places on his map two towns d[ the name of Bullis, the Roman colony at GrddiUa, and the maritime city at Kanina. (Hol- land, Travele, vol. ii. p. 320, seq., 2nd ed. ; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 35.) BUMADUS (Bou/*<^«oy, Arrian, iii. 8; Curt iv. 9; Bovfiiio5, Arrian, vi. 11), a small stream in Assyria about sixty stadfa from Arbda. The name is met with in the MSS. with various spellings — Bu- madus, Bumodns, Bumelns, Bumolus. It is said (Forbiger, Ilandbuch, vol. ii. p. 608) to be now called the Khazir. Tavemier (ii. c 5.) states that he met with a stream called the Bohnu, which, he thinks, may be identified with it BUPHA'GIUM (Bowp6,yioy), a town of Arcadia, in the district Cynuria, situated near the sources of the river Buphagus (Bov^dyos), a tributary of the Alpheius, which formed the boundary between the territories of Heraea and Megalopolb. It is placed