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 654 CONCORDIA. repeatedly mentioned dnring the later a^ of the Roman EmjHre, as one of the moet coneidentble cities in this part of Italy. (Eutrop. viii. 10; Zoeiin. t. 37; Victor. EpU. 16.) In a. d. 452, it was taken and destroyed by Attila {Hist, MuceU, zr. p. 549), bat seems to have been agun partially inhabited at a later period (Cas«odor. Var, zii. 26), and retained its episcopal see throoglioot the middle ages, thoagh most of the inhabitants migrated to CaorUf in the adjoining logunes, as those of Altinum did to Tor- cdlo. It is now a mere Tillage, with about 400 inhabitants, though still the nominal see of a bishop, who resides at the neighbouring town of Pcrto GruarOf while Concordia retains the ancient site, as well as name, but has no remains of antiquity beyond a few inscriptions. It is situated on a small river, now called the Lament, whic>4 appears to have been navigable in ancient times. (Strab. L e.) This must be the same with the " flumen Romatinum** of Pliny, which he places between the Liquentia {Li- venza) and Tilavemptos (^Taffliamento): it haid a port of the same name at its mouth^^ [E. H. B.] CONCO'RDIA JU'LIA. [Nkrtobrioa.] COXDATE, is the name of several Gallic towns, situated at the angle formed by the junction of two rivers; from which it may be concluded that the Gallic term had a meaning which expressed this fact. The French names Condai, Condt^ or Cone, appear to be various forms of Condate. 1. Condate (KovSarc Rennes is mentioned in the Antonine Itin. and in 1 tolemy (ii. 8). It was the capital of the Redones, and in the Notitia it is named Civitas Redonum, whence has come the modem name. Reanes stands at the point where the Vilaine receives a small stream. 2. Another Condate is fixed by the Itan. on the road between Melodunum (^l/e/un) and Agedincum {Sens}. The place wss at the junction of the Yonne and the Seine ; but it is now named MontereaUf a corruption of Monasteriolunu 3. A third is fixed by tlie Itin. between Novio- magus, the chief town of the Lexovii, and Duro- casses {Dreux). This is Conde, on the lion, at the junction of two branches of that river. 4. A fourth is fixed by the Itin. on the road from Angostodunum {AtUun) to Paris. It is placed be- tweoen Nevimum {Nevers) and Brivodurum [Bri- yodurum]; and it corresponds to Come^ at the confluence of the little river Noutdn with the Loire, 5. The Table places another Condate on the road between MediolanumSantonum or Santones(<S(t«nte«), and Vesunna or Petrocorii {Periffiteux). Cognac^ on the Charente^ probably represents the ancient place. 6. Ausonius {Ep. v._31) speaks of a Condatis portus: — *^* " Unus Domnotoni te litore perferet aestns Condatem ad portuui, si modo deproperes.** D'Anville supposes this place to be represented by Condat. an old castle near Liboume^ which town is at the junction of the JjIsU and the Dordogne ; nearly due east of Bordeaux, 7. The Table places another Condate in the country of tiie Gabali, west of the Cevenna, and on the road from Anderitnm [Andkritum] to Reves- sium. The site is uncertain ; but we may certainly assume that it was on the Elaver {A liier which is crossed on the road between Anderitum and Re- yessium. 8. The Table places a Condate between Etanna CONDIVICMUIL (Tenne), on the Rhone, and Geneva. The site is supposed to be iSSeisse/, at the junction of tibe Sier and the Rhone, in the territory of the AUobrofoa^ and the Provincia or Gallia Narlwnensis. [G. L.] CONDATE, in Britain, mentioned twice in tbe Itinerary; firatly, as being 18 miles from Ifanca* niom {Afanehetter)y and 20 from Deva (CAerter); secondly, as 18 miles from Manconium, and 18 from MedioUuium. A good measure of the circuitODB character of the lines oi the Itineraty is to be ^Dond in the comparison <^ these two notices. The Meifio- lannm, which in the tenth Itineraxy is nmplf eighteen miles from Condate, in the second stands thus : CoNDATB — DiEVA M. p. zz. ; Bovro M. P. z. ; Mediolano H. P. zz. With these munbere, assuming their absolute correctness, it wooM not be difiicult to fix the locality of Condate, if that oC Mediolanum were certain. This, however, is acarcdj the case. Congleton, in Cheshire, on the strength of the partial similarity of name, has been chuimd as the representative of Condate; and — with the assumption that Mediolanum « Drayton in ^brap- shire — Nortkwichj on the strength of the locality. This latter view is Horsley's. The present writer favours a notion of Dr. Tilsted's that Condate, name for name, is Kinderton, near Middlewich. [BLG.L. j CONDATOMAGUS, another ezample of a name Condate, with the addition of mag, a common Gallic ending. The Table places Condatomagus be- tween Segodunum or Ruteni {Rodez) and Lnteva {Lodhfe), which was within the limits of the Pro- vincia or Gallia Narbonensb. The site cannot be ascertained, but we nuy assume that it is on some of the rivers that are crossed on the road from Roden to Lodeee. [G. L.] CONDERATES, are only known from a Roman inscription, which records that the boatmen (nautae) of the &K$ne and the Loiren and also the boatnoen of the ArconSe and the Conderates, dedicated a funeral monument to the memory of their patron Tauricius Florens. The inscription is as follows: D. M. Tauricio. Florenti Taurid. Tanriciani filio Veneto. allectori. Galliae patrono nautarum Arari- cornm et Legyrioor. Item Areccaromm et Conde- ratium. Provinciae Galliae. Their position is repre- sented by Condrieu on the west side of the Rkone^ about ten miles below Vienne. Condrieu is still a small port on the Rhone, partly inhabited by people well skilled in the navigation of the river, and bj carpenters who build boats. ** AUector " is ex- phuned by Mnntori to be ** tributorum susceptor," a taz-oollector. Foroellini has an article on the word. The name Conderates implies a place Conderate, or something like it ; and this is another ezample of the element Cond in Gallic names. rCoNDATE.J (Walckenaer, Geog., 4^., vol. L p. 387.) [G. L.3 CONDERCUM, in Britain. The station of the first wing of tbe Asti, according to the Notitia. Generally identified as the BenweU HiU in North- umberland. [R. G. L ] CONDIVICNUM, or {Koi^tovirfieop) CONDI- VINCUM, according to Ptolemy (ii. 8^ was the name of the capital of the Nannetes or Namnetes, a Celtic people on the lower Jjoire, and on the north side. The name appears to be compounded of the Celtic word Cond and another name. The town of Nantet represents Condivicnum. The old town of Nantes was nearly comprised in the angle formed by the junction of the Erdre with the Loire. Condi- vicnom was known to the Romans at an early period. r n