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 OANKAE. CANTABRAS. 5or FLAM or CAHNAB. A. Flnt camp of the Rommf. B. Second camp of the greater part of the forces; called the Urger camp. c. The smaller da o. Camp of ^amiRia]. B. Scene of the actual battle. V. Town or citadel of Cannae. o. Canosiam. n. Bridge of Canuiliim. KK. TheAufidus. nnsinin. Bat its name oocurs again during the Soda] War, B.C. 89, when it was the scene of an action between the Roman general Cosconins and the Samnite Trebatins. (Appian, B. C. i. 52.) It appears to have been at this time still a fortress ; and Pliny enumerates the Cannenses ** nobiles clade Romana" among the mnnidpal towns of Apulia (iii. 11. s. 16). It became the see of a bishop in the later period of the Roman Empire, and seems to baye continued in existence during the middle ages, till towaixls the close of the 1 3th century. The period of its complete abandonment is unknown, but the site, which is still known by the name of Coime, is marked only by the ruins of the Roman town. These are described by Swinburne, as con- sisting of fragments of altars, cornices, gates, walls, and vaults, in themselves of little interest. Little or no value can be attached to the name of Potto di EmiUOj said to be still given to an ancient well, im- mediately below the hiU occupied by the town, and supposed to mark the spot where the Roman consul perished. (Rcmanelli, voL ii p. 278 ; Vaudoncourt, /. e. p. 49.) [E. H. B.] CANNAR (C. Qaiiaiet), a headland on the N. coast of Mauretania Tingitana, between Abyla and Rusaddi, 50 M. P. from the latter. {IHn, Ant. p. 11.) [P. S.] C ANNINEFATES, inhabited a part of the Insula Batavorum, and they were a tribe of the same stock as the Batavi, or only a division of the Batavi. (Tadt. HitL iv. 15; PUn. iv. 15.) They probably occujMed the western part of the Insula, the JUufnr- land, DdftUmd, and SchieUmd; but Walckenaer, who extends the limits of the Insula Batavorum, on the authority of Ptolemy, north of Leyden to a place called Zandwoort^ gives the same extension to the Canninefiites. The orthography of the name is given with some variations. The Canniuefiites were sub- dued by Tiberius in the time of Augustus (Veil. Pat. IL 105), according to Velleius, who places tliem in Germania; but no safe inference can be drawn from such an expression as to their limits. The Canninefates, with the Batavi and Frisii, rose against the Roman authority in the time of Vitellius (Tae. ffisL iv. 15 — 79), under the command of Givilis. [Batavorum In8ui«a.] [G. L.] CANO'BUS or CANOTUS (Qdint. Intt, Or, I 5. § 13; Kau^9nros, Steph. B. p. 855 s. v.; Herod. iL 15, 97, 113; Stnb. xvi. p. 666, xvil p. 800 se;.; Scylax, pp. 44, 51 ; MeL iL 7. § 6 ; Eustath. ad DioMft, Perieg, v. 13; Aeschyl. Supp, 312; Caes. B. Akx,2b Virg. Georg, iv. 287 ; Juv. Sat. vi. 84, XV. 46; Seneo. Epttt. 51; Tao. ulwi. ii. 60; Amm. Marc. xxii. 41, &c: EtL Kaift96irris; Adj, Kovw- 6ue6s, fern. KatrwSis), a town of Egypt, situated in lat. 31^ N. upon the same tongue of land with Alexandreia, and about 15 miles (120 stadia) from that dty. It stood upon the mouUi of the Canobio branch of the Nile [Nilus], and adjacent to the Canobic canal (KoMftfud) 8ifl»pv|, Strab. xvii. p. 800). In the Pharaonic times it was the capital of the nome Menelaltes, and, previous to the foundation of Alexandreia, was the prindpal harbour of the Delta. At Ganobus the andent geographers (Scylax; Gonon. Narrat. 8; Plin. v. 34; SchoL m IHct. Creteru, vi. 4) placed the true boundary between the continents of Africa and Asia. According to Greek legends, the city of Ganobus derived its name from the jHlot of Mendaas, who died and was buried there on the return of the Achaeans from Troy. But it more probably owed its appelUtion to the god Ganobus — a pitcher with a human head — who was worshipped there with peculiar pomp. (Gomp. Nicand. Theriac. 312.) At Ganobus was a temple of 2^eus-Ganobus, wh(Hn Greeks and Egyptians held in equal reverence^ and a much frequented shrine and oracle of Serapb. (Plut. /«. 6t Ostr. 27.) As the resort of mariners and fordgners, and as the seat of a hybrid Gopto-Hellenic. popidation, Ganobus was notorious for the number of its religious festivals and the general dissoluteness of its morals. Here was prepared the scarlet dye — the Hennah, with which, in all ages, the women of the East have been wont to colour the nails of tlieir feet and fingers. (Herod, ii. 1 13; Plin. xii. 51.) The decline of Ganopus began with the rise of Alexandreia, and was completed by the introduction of Ghristianity into Egypt. Traces of its ruins are found about 3 miles from Aboukir. (Denon, Voyage en EgvpUy p. 42 ; Ghampollion, VEgypU, vol. ii. p. 258.) [W.B.D.] GANO'NIUM, in Britain, distant, in the ninth Itinerary, 8 miles from Gamulodunum, and 12 from Gaesaromagus; the road being from Venta Icenomm (the neighbourhood of Nonoich to London). For all these parts the criticism turns so much upon the position given to Gamelodukum and Golonia, that the proper investigation lies imder the latter of these two heads. [Golonia.] North Fambridge is Hors- lej*8 locality for Ganonium; the neighbourhood of Kelvedon that of the Monumenta Britannica. Ro- man remains occur in both. [R. G. L.] GA'NTABER OGEANUS (Kairra€ptos &MaM6s: Bay of Biscay), tlie great bay of the Atlantic, formed by the W. coast of Gaul and the N. coast of Spain, and named after the Gamtabri on the latter coast. (Glandian. xxix. 74; Ptol. iL 6. § 75, viii. 4. § 2.) [P. &] GAKTABRAS, a river of India (in the Panjdb)^ mentioned by Pliny as one of the chief tributaries of the Indus, carrying with it the watera of three other tributaries. (Plin. vL 20. s. 23.) Some assume that it must be the Uydraotks, because the latter is not otherwise mentioned by Pliny; but the name K K 3