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 462 CABASA. rated above, in the Cabalis or Gaballa ; and we can make Strabo agree with Pliny and Ptolemy, by sup- posing that these three cities (Balbura, Bub<m, and Oenoanda) which Strabo mentions, belonged to his territory Gaballis, though he does not say that they did. The connection of Cibyra with the towns of the Cabalis is explained under Cibyra. [G. L.] GA'BASA (KiScura, Ptol. iv. 5. § 48 ; Plin. ▼. 9, 8.9 : Hierocle8,p.724; lU^cM-trajConcEphes. p. 531, and Ko^ourcra), in the Delta of Egypt, the modem KkaboMy was the principal town of the nome Cabasites. It was seated a Uttle to the north of Sais and Nau- cratis. Remains of the ancient Cabasa are bdieved to exist at Kovm-Fara'tMy and in this district the names of several villages, e. g. Khabdt'el'Meh, KhabAi-omaTy KomU'Khabds — recall the Coptic appellati<m of the capital of the Cabasite nome. D'Anville (^EgypU^ p. 75) and Champdlion (ii. p. 234) ascribe to the castle of Khdbat the site of the original Cabasa. [W. B. D.] CABA^US {KaeofftrSs, or KaiSfi<ra6s: Eth, Ka€4iaaioSj Kairtaairifs). According to Apion, quoted by Stephanus, a village of Cappadoda be- tween Tarsas and Mazaca; not the Cabessus of Homer {IL xiiL 363), certainly. Ptolemy places it in Cataonia. [0. L.] CABE'LLIO (KagaXXiw, Strab. p. 179: Eih, Ka$(AXi»K^<rior, Ka6cXXi«v('n}f : Cavaillon)^ a town in Gaul, on the Druentia {Durance)^ and mi a line of road between Vapincum (Gap) and Arelate (Aries). Stephanus (s,v. Ko^cAXiwy), on the au* thority of the geographer Artemidorus, makes it a Massaliot foundation. Walckeuaer (Gtog. ^. vol. i. p. 187) says that M. Calvet has proved, in a learned dissertation, that there was a company of Utiicularii (boatmen, ferrymen) at Cabellio, for the crossing of the river. Such a company or corpus existed at Arelate and elsewhere. Cabellio was a city of the Cavares, who were on the east bank of the Rhone. Pliny calls it an Oppidum Latinum (iii. 4), and Ptolemy a Colonia. It was a town of some note, and many architectural fragments have been found in the soii. The only thing that remains standing is a fragment of a triumphal arch, the lower part of which 18 buried in the earth. In the Notitia of the Gallic Provinces "civitas Cabellicomm " is included in Viennensis. [G. L.] COIN OP CABELLIO. CABILLO'NUM or CABALLI'NUM, with other varieties. Coins of this place, with the epgraph Ca- ballo, are mentioned. Strabo (p. 192) has KotfvA- X7vo¥ (Eth. Cabellinensis : ChaUm-tur-Sadne)^ a town of the Aedui, on the west bank of the Arar (Saone)^ which in Caesar's time (B. G. vii. 42) was a place which Roman n^otiators visited or resided at. At the close of the campaign against Vercinge- torix (b. a 52), Q. Cicero, the brother of the orator, wintered here. The Antonine Itin. places it 33 M. P. or 22 Gallic leagues from Autun. Ammianus (xv. 11) mentions this place, under the name Cabillonus, as one of the chief places of Lugdunensis IMma; and from the Notitia Imp. it appears that the Romans kept a fleet of some description here. [G. L.] CABI'RA (r& Ko^fipa), a place in Pontus, at CABIRA. the base of the range of Fteyadres, about 150 stadia south of Eupatoria or Magnopolis, iriuch was at the junction of the Iris and the Lycus Eiqiatoria was in the midst of the plain, but Cabira, as Stnbo says (p. 556), at the base of the mountain range of Pary^- dres. IMfithridates the Great built a palace at Cabira ; and there was a water-mill there (dSpoAcnyy), and places for keeping wild animals, hunting grounds, and mines. Less than 200 stadia from Cabira was the remarkable rock or fortress called Caenen (Kfluy^v), where Mithridates kept his most valuable things. Cn. Pompeins took the place and its trea- sures, which, when Strabo wrote, were in the Roman Capitol. In Strabo*s time a woman, Pythodoris, the widow of King Polemo, had Cabira with the Zelitis and Magnopolitis. Pompeius made Cabira a cit}', and gave it the name Diopolis. Pythodoris enhunged it, and gave it the name Sebaste, which is equivalent to Augusta ; and she used it as her royal residence. Near Cabira probably (for the text of Strabo is a little uncertain, and not quite clear; Groskurd, transl. vol. ii. p. 491, note) at a village named Ameria, there was a temple with a great number of slaves belonging to it, and the high priest enjoyed this benefice. The god Men Phamaoes was worshipped at Cabira. Mithridates was at Cabira during the winter that L. Lucullos was besi^^ing Amisus and Eupatoria. (Appian, MUhrid. c. 78.) Lucullus afterwards took Cid>ira. (Plutarch, Xii- ctdlutj c. 18.) There are some autonomoas OGina of Cabira with the epigraph Ka^pwir. Strabo, a native of Amasia, could not be unaC' quainted with the site of Cabira. The only place that corresponds to his description is JSTubor, oo the right bank of the Lyons, nearly 27 miles from the junction of the Iris and the Lycus. But NikMr is the representative of Neocaesarea, a name which first occure in Pliny (vi. 3), who says that it is on the Lycus. There is no trace of any ancient citj between Niktar and the junction of the two rivers, and the conclusion that Niktar is a later name of Cabira, and a name more recent than Sebaste, seems certain. (Hamilton's HetearckeSf t^c. vol. i. p. 346.) Pliny, indeed, mentions both Sebastia and Se- bastopolis in Colopena, a district of Cappadocia, but nothing certain can be inferred from tliis. Neocae- sarea seems to have arisen under the early Roman emperors. Cramer (Asia Minora vol. i. p. 315) states that the earliest coins of Neocaesarea bear the effigy of Tiberius; but Sestini, quoted by For- biger (Geog. vol. ii. pw 428), assigns the origin of Neocaesarea to the time of Nero, about a. d. 64, when Pontus Polemoniacns was made a Roman prmince. The simplest solution of this question is that Neocaesarea was a new town, which might be near the site of Cabira. It was the capital of Pontus Polononiacus, the birth-place of Gr^orios Thaumatui^us, and the place of assembly of a council in A. D. 314. Ammianus Marcellinus (xxvii. 12) calls it the most noted city of Pontus Polemo- niacns : it was, in fact, the metropolis. According to Paulus Diaoonns the place was destroyed by an earthquake. Cramer supposes that Neocaesarea is identical with Ameria, and he adds that Neocaesarea was '*the principal seat of pagan idolatry and super- stitions, which affords another presumption that it had risen on the foundation of Ameria and the worohip of Men Phamaces." But Ameria seems'to have been at or near Cabira; and all difficulties are reconciled by supposing that Cabira, Ameria, Nao-