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 594 OERYNITES. p. 387 ; Boblaje, Reckerches, ^., p. 25 ; Leake, J^ehponnesiaca^ p. 388.) Theophnistus stated that the wine of Ceryneia produced abortion. (Theophr. HUt. Plant, is. 20; comp. Athen. p. 31; AehaOi V. H, xiii. 6.) CEBYNITES. [Achaia, p. 13, b.] CESA'DA. [Arevacak.] GESERO or CESSERO, a town of Gallia Nar- bonensis, in the territory of the Volcae Tectosages (Ptol. ii. 3). The Itin. and the Table fix its position on the great Roman road from Arelate (^Arles) to Narbo (Narhofme). The distance from Cessero to Baeterrae {B^zieri) is 12 M. P., and the site of Ces- sero corresponds to St. Tiberi on the river fferatUt. D'Anviile shows that the monastery of St, Tiberi is called Cesarion in a document of a. d. 867. As the place was on the river, tliis explains the fact of its being named in the Antonine Itin. ^^Araora sire Cessero." [G. L.] CESTRENE (Kearplvri, Thuc.Paus.; Ktcrrpiyiaj Steph. B. «. V. KatAfiayla; Kco-rpxa, Stcph. B. a, v. Tpdta)f a district of Epeiros in the south of Chaonia, separated from Thesprotia by the river Thyamis. (Thuc. i. 46.) It is said to have received its name from Cestrinos, son of Helenas and Andromache, having been previously called Cammania. (Paus. i. 11. § 1, 11 23. § 6 ; Steph. B. <. v. Kofifuwla.} The principal town of this district is called Cestria by Pliny (iv. 1), but its more usual name appears to have been Ilium or Troja, in memory of the Trojan colonj of Helenus. (Steph. B. a. v. Tpota.) The remains of this town are still visible at the spot called PaUd VenetiOf near the town of FUidtet. In the neighbourhood are those fertile pastures, which were celebrated in ancient times for the Cestrinic oxen. (Uesydi. t. v. KwrpanKol Bocs ; Schol. ad Aristoph. Pac, 924.) The inhabitants of the dis^ trict were called Kwrprivoi by tbe poet Rhianus (Steph. B. «. V. XotOfot). (Leake, Nortk&m Greece, voL iv. pp. 73, 175.) CESTRUS (K^orpos), a river of Pamphylia, which rises in the mountains of Selge (Strab. p. 571). The course of the Cestrus is between that of the Catarrhactes and of the Eurymedon ; and it is east of the Catarrhactes. It was navigable up to Perge, 60 stadia from its mouth (p. 667). The river is also mentioned by Mela as a navigable river (i. 14). The Cestrus is 300 ft wide at the mouth, and 15ft. deep within the bar, which extends across the mouth, and " so shallow as to be impassable to boats that draw more than one foot of water." The swell from the sea meeting the stream generally produces a violent surf. (Beaufort, Karamania^ p. 142.) It must have been more open in ancient times, according to Strabo and Mela. No modem name is given to thi4 river by Beaufort. Leake (^Atia Minor ^ p. 194) names it the ATc-au, apparently on the authority of Koehler, and Fellows (^Aaia Minor^ p. 194) gives it the same name. [G. L.] CETAEUM. [Taprobaitk.] CETA'RIA (KTjTopIo, Ptol. iil 1. §4: JF^A. Cetarinus), a small town of Sicily, plac^ by Pto- lemy, the only author who affords any clue to its position, (Ml the N. coast of the island between Panonnus and Drepanum, but its exact site is uncertain. Fazello and Cluver fix it at the Torre di Scupelle on the W. side of the Gulf of Cattello' marei but if the river Bathys of Ptolemy, which he enumerates immediately after it, be the modem Jati, or Fiaiij the position suggested fur Cetaria is untenable; Its name was probably derived from its CHABORAS. being the seat of tunny fisheries (cetaria) ; hence we should probably read Cetariui fi>r Citarini in Cicero as well as Pliny. The former tells us it was a very small tovni, though enjoying its separate municipal rights. Pliny enumerates it among the stipendiary cities of SicUy. (Cic Verr. m. 43; Plin. iii. 8. s. 14.) [K H. B.] CETIS or CITIS. [Caltcadkus.] CE'TIUM, a Roman municipinm in the extreme east of Noricum, at the foot of mount Cetius, from which it derived its name. (Itin. Ant p^ 234; Gmter, Irucript. p. 462, where it is called AeUa Cetiensis.) Its exact site is only matter of conjecture. [L. S.] CE'TIUS MONS (KfTwv ipos: Kohlenberg), a mountun of Koricum on the borders of Upper Pannonia (Ptol. ii. 14. § 1, 15. § 1), extending from Aemona to the Danube, and tenuinatmg on t^e west of Vindobona. [L. S.] CETIUS (Kifriov), a branch of the Caicus, a river of Mysia. Pliny (v. 30) says " Pergamom, which the Selinus flows through, Cetius flows by, descending from Mount Pindasus." Strabo (p. 616) mentions a mountain torrent Cetion, which rises in the Eleatis, and falls into another like torrent, then into another, and finally into the Cwcus. Some maps make this river flow from the north, and join the Caicus on the right bank; but Strabo's river must fall into the Caicus on the left bank. It may have given 'name to the Ceteii (Kijrcioi), though Strabo professes not to know who the Ceteii were, nor to understand the verse of the Odyssey (xi. 521) where they are mentioned. [G. L.] CETOBRrGA. [Caetobhix.] CEUTRONES, a peq>le meatiooed by Caesar {B. G. V. 39) as subject to the Nervii. They axe not mentioned by any other writer, and their position is unknown. [G. L.] CEVELUM, a place in North Gallia, according to the Table, on the road between Noviomagns {Nyme- gen) and Atuaca, that is Aduatuca {Tongerny, It is placed between Novioraagus and Blariacum (JBfe- rick), both well known positions. D'AnviUe sup- poses that the po6iti(»i of Cevelum may be Kvik on the Maaa, though he admits that the distance from Nymegen is twice as much as the Table gives. Walckenaer selects Cleveebvrg as the spot [G. L.] CEVENNA. [Ckbenna,] CHA'BALA (Xa€dka, Ptol. v. 12. § 6), a dtj of Albania, evidently the same which Pliny calls Cabalaca, and mak^ the capital of the country. [AuBAinA.] CHABORAS (Xa€ii>pa5y Ptol. v. 18. §3; Plin. XXX. 3; Chabuba, Procop.£.P.ii. 5; Aborrhas, 'AS6(ipaSj Strab. xvL p. 747; Zosim. iiL 13; Amm. Marc xiv. 3, xxiiL 5 ; Aburas, 'ASo^puSj laid. Char. p. 4), a laige river of Mesq}otanua which rises in M. Masius, about 40 miles from Nisibis, and flows into the Euphrates at Circesiam (JSerie- siah). Its present name is Khabur. There is no doubt, that though differently spelt, the names all represent the same river, being only dialectical variations, or changes frnn the use of different as- pirates. Procop. {I. c.) speaks of it as a river of importance^ and Ammianus states that Julianns crossed it ^ per navalem Aborae pontera." Stnbo describes it as near the town of Anthemusia. Bochart conjectured that the Chaboras is the sasie as the Araxes of Xenophon (^Anab. L 4. § 19); but though we have stated elsewhere that this ia probable [Araxbs, No. 4], we are disposed, npon reconsideration, to reject the conjectures since the