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 592 CEBCINIUM. The lake Prasias (Tlpeurids), with its am- phlbiotu inhabitants who are described bj Herodotus (y. 16) as living on the piles and planks procured from Mount Orbelus, with which thej constructed tiieir dwellings on the lake, was the same as the Strymonic lake, or Cerdnitis.)! (Leake, Northern Gi'eece, vol. iii. p. 2 1 1 .) [E. B. J.] CERCrmUM, a town in Thessaly, near the lake Boebeis. (Liv. xxxL 41 ; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 449, seq.) CERCO'PLA. (Kepicttwrfa), a town of Phrygia Magna (Ptol. v. 2). Its site is unknown. [G. £.] CERDY'LIUM. [Amphipous.] CE'REA (K€p4a, Steph. B.e.v. B^n?; Suid. 9. V. 'PiomSs : Etk. Kepfdrryy, Polyb. iv. 53. § 6), a town of Crete, which from its mention by Polybius (I.C.), and from a coin with the epigraph KEPAITAN, and presenting the same type as those of Polyrrhenia, has been inferred to have been in the neighbourhood of that town. (Eckhel, yoL !i. p. 306 ; Hoeck, Kreta, vol. i. p. 392.) [E. B. J.] PE'REAE, a place in Asia Minor, fixed by the Table on the road between Amastris (or Mastrum, as it appears in the Table), and Sinope. The Table places Tyca 20 miles east of Amastris, and Cereae 15 miles east of Tyca. The pUce seems to be un- known. [G. L.] CEREATAE(K€p€(£T€,Strab.; Ki^^o»STai,Plut.: Etii. Cereatinns), a town of Latium, mentioned by Strabo (v. p. 238) among those which lay on the left of the Via Latina, between Anagnia and Sora. There is no doubt that it is the same place called by Plutarch Cirrhaeatae, which waB the birth-place of C. Marius. (Plut. Afar. 3.) He terms it a village in the territory of Arpinum; it appears to have been subsequently erect^ into a separate mu- nicipium, probably by Marios himself, who seems to have settled tiiere a body of his relations and dependents. It subsequently received a fresh body of colonists from Drusus, the stepson of Augustus. Hence the " Gereatini Mariani " appear among the Munidpia of Latium in the time of Pliny. (Plin. iii. 5. s. 9 ; Lib. Colon, p. 233 ; Zumpt, de Colon. p. 361.) The passage of Strabo afibrds the only clue to its position; but an inscription bearing the name of the Gereatini Mariani has been discovered at the andent monastery of Casa Mara or Casamari^ about half way between Verulae and Arpinum, and 3 miles W. of the Liris. It is thus rendered pro- bable that this convent ^which is built on andent foundations) occupies the site of Cereatae, and re- tains in its name some trace of that of Marius. {Bull. d. InsU Arch. 1851, p. 11.) We learn from another inscription that there was a branch of the Latin way which communicated directly with Ar- pinum and Sora, passing apparently by Cereatae. (/Wrf. p. 13.) [E.H.B.] GEREBELLIAGA (Mutatlo Cex«belliaca), a sta- tion in Gallia, placed in the Jerusalem Itm., between Valcntia {Valence) and Mansio Augusta {Aoust). The Itin. makes it zii. M.'P. from Valentia to Cere- belliaca, and z. from Gerebelliaca to Augusta. The Antonine Itin. makes the same distance between Va- lentia and Augusta, but omits Gerebelliaca. The site can only be guessed at D*Anville supposes tliat it may be ChaheuU, but adds that this place is nearer Valence than Aoust Walckenaer names a place IjCS C/uiberles Montoiton, as the site of Gere- belliaca. [G. L.] GERESSUS (KffniffffSs), a strong fortress in Boeotia, in the neighbourhood of, and belonging to /•. // /. /. « / CERNE. Thespiae. The inhabitants of Ceressns repeated to tliis fortress after the battle of Leuctra. It was pro- bably situated at Pcdeopanaghia. (Pans. ix. 14. § 2 ; Leake, Northern Greece^ vol il pp. 490, 450.) CETIESUS. [Iaccktant.] GERE'TAPA (ri Keperaro: Etk. fi^perwnin), a town of Phrygia Pacatiana. The Ethnic name is known from ihe coins, which also show that there was near it a river or fountain Aulindenus. The place had also the name Diocaesarea. Some geo- graphers fix it near Colossae. [G. L.] GERFE'NNIA, a town of the Maisi, not men- tioned by Pliny or the other geographers, but placed by the Itineraries on the Via Valeria, 13 miles finom Alba Fucensis, and 17 from Gorfinium. Its site is fixed by Holstenius at the foot of the hill on which stands the modem village of CoU Armeno, where an old church of Sta FeUcUa still bears in eccle" siasUcal records the adjunct m Cerfeana. It was at the foot of the remarkable pass over the Apen- nines called in the Tabula the Mons Imeos (now the Forca Caruso), which led from thence to dx- finium. From an inscription published by Hoi- stenius (Orell. Tnscr. 711) we learn that this part of the Via Valeria was first constructed, or at hast rendered passable for carriages, by the emperor Claudius, who continued it from Cerfennia to the Adriatic at the mouth of the Atemus. (Itin. Ant p. 309; Tab. Peut; Holsten. Not in Cluv. pp. 153, 154; D'Anville, Anal Giogr. de TItalie, p. 175; Kramer, Fuciner See, pp. 60, 61.) For the dis- cussion of the distances along this route, see Via Valeria. [E. H. B.] CERGE (K4pyri a place in Mysia, mentioned by Hicrocles, quoted by Forbiger, who suggests that the name ought to be Gerte, as there is a place Kertesleh, on the Rhyndacus, where, he says, that thero are ruins; but Hamilton {Land. Geog. Joum, vil. 35), who was at the place, does not mention ruins. [6. L.] GERILLAE, or GERILLI (KfipiXXoi, Strab.; Cerilla£, SiL Ital. viii. 581), a town of Bruttium, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, a few miles S. of the river Laus. Silius Italicus tells us (/. c.) that it was laid waste by Hannibal during the Second Punic War, and probably never recovered, as its name is not found either in Pliny or Ptolemy, and is merely inddentolly noticed by Strabo (vi. p. 255) as a small place near Laus. It is dso found under the slightly corrupted form Cerelis in the Tab. Peut., which places it 8 miles S. of the river Laus ; and the name is still retauied by the village of CireUa Vecchia, about 5 miles from that river. (Barr, de Sit. Calabr. p. 53 ; Bomanelli, vol. i. p. 23.) Strabo gives the distance from thence across the isthmus <^ the Bruttian peninsula to the nearest point of the Tarentine Gulf in the territoiy of Thurium, at 300 stadia, or 30 G. miles, which is almost precisely correct [E H. B.] GERINTHUS (K^pivfloJ : Eth. KvpiyBios), a town upon the north-eastern coast of Euboea, and near the small river Budoms, said to have been founded by the Athenian Gothus. It is mentioned by Homer, and was still extant in the time of Strabo, who speaks of it as a small place. (Horn. /Z. ii. 538 ; Scymn. Gh. 576 ; Strab. x. p. 446 ; Apoll. Bhod. i. 79 ; Ptol. iii. 15. § 25 ; Plm. iv. 12. s. 21.) CERNE (K4pvri), an island of the Atlantic, off the W. coast of Africa, discovered and colonized in the voyage of Hanno, and from that time the great emporium for the Carthaginian trade with W. Africa. r/{ i