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 1050 HERACLEIA. BnadnA, which mi the birthplace of Henclidca Ponliciu and liii (Uwiida Dionjiini lleiuhaneniu, ttill exiite uiuter the ouot at Btralat or ErtklL For the historj of 'Jill importsnt colonj we Jiutia, in. 3— S ; Polsberw, de Rebtu BaraeltM, Bnn- denbiUK, 1S33, Bid. (Jiahiiia, LecUon Ant. HiiL iii. pp.113, foL) 5. A Iowa of ariMCtain site id LTdis, perhaps not far fnim Magnesia at the [iiat of mDiiDC Sipjiui. From this town the magnet deriveil ita name of ntradtv lapU. (Steph. B. *. r.; Hesjch. t. v.; ZMioti. Prmi. ii. 32, p. 90, cd. Leutaoh.) [L. S.] HERACLEIA ('HinUXtm, Stnb, iri. p. 751; Plin. V. SO), a imall (own «n the cout of N. SfrU tDthetI.afLudi<:«arad-Man(i: Pococka iTVac. ToL iu pt. i. p. 191) haa identified it irilh ttinet Borja, the email town and half-rained port from which milt and wheat are hronghl from Cjlinu (comp. Cheenej, Exptd, £iip*ra(. vol. i. p, 153), and foDDd, oa the nnaJl flat point that m^oa ont into the lea, eeveral grsne cut into the rock, lome ilODe coffins, and jAecei of mutile piLlan; to the N. he uw wme lemaiiu of pien built into the eea, of foundationa of walls ef large hewn atoies, and signa d'a itrong building at the end of the pier. (Hitter, Srdkimde. roL iv. pt. i. p. 99.) [E. B. J.] HERACLEIA PABTUIAE ('fipixKim, Stnb. xi. p. 514). Stntbo menlioiu a town of Ihie name, which he places, together with Apameia, in the di- rection of Bhaga*. Nothing ocrtun a known about it; bat it baa been conjectored bj ForUger that il ia the aame u a town of the same name mentioned bj Plin}', which wsa founded bf Alexander the Great, and aubeeqiuntlj, when deatrojed, was named br AntiochOB. Achais (vi. IG. g. 18). [V.] HEBACLEIUM CHfxiaAtior). 1. A town on the north coast of the Chereonesus Tanrica; it was utnaled on the coast of the Pains Maeolis. near PartheDinm, but ite exact aire is nnlEnonn. (Strab. xi.p.l94;Pto1.iii. 6. §1.) S. A promontory on the eaet coast of the Euiine, eouth of cape Torstice, and 150 stadia north of the mouth of the river Acliaeue. (Arrian, PeripL p. 79.) 3. A cape and lonn on the same coaat of the Euiine, ISO stadia south ofthemonthofthe Achiene. (Arrian, PeripL ^ 78.) Pliny (vi. 5) mentions He- racleium on this coast as 70 miln distant from 8ebaHopolia;bnt,«lIhongh wehaTenomeanaofu- oertaining whether Ihie or the other Heraclrinm be meant, the distance nnders it probable that Flinj ii jpeaking of the Heracleium sonth of the Achaeus. the Enxine. between the rivers Phasis in the north and the Batbrs in the south. (Ptin. vi. 4.) S. A promcmtory and pmt-lown on tlio coaat of Pnntns, between Amisus and Polemonium. (Stiab, lii. p. 548 : 'HpoKktitt ticfW: Ptol. ii. 3. § 3 : 'HpuAnvi btpor; Arrian, PeripL p. 73 ; Apdion. Bhol IL 969). The modem name ia Thainth. SERACLEOFOLIS. 8. The name of the an of the town of Camu in' Caria, which was taken and deatrojed by Plolny of E^pt [n his expedition againat Aiim Um. (Diod. Sic. II. 27.) 7. A emat! town m the ^strict Cyrr h CTtiea. tv- tween motint Amanna and the EuphratM; dot tin place the Parthian Pacorna was deTestcd by th« Roman general Ventidina. (Stnb. ivi.pL751 .) [L.^] HERACLEIUM CHfxiJtA.uif, Ptol. ia 17. S 61. a place in Crete, which Strabo (i. ppi. 47fi, 4S4) calls the port of Cnoasus, waa lituated, kcccudi^ distance of 20 stadia fion that city. Tbe Baine HsRACLEEA ('H^KUAtuL,conip. Plin. It.SO) n noply mentimed bf Stephanos of Byiantiuni a* the I7lb of the 23 Heracleiaa he enumerate*. Altboo^ the ecetesiaalical notices make no mentko of this plan as a biehop'a see, yet tbeni is found amoog the lah- scriptions to the proceedings of the Gsneial Sennth Council held at Nicaea, akng with other Cretan pie- latee, Theodores, bishop of Haracleopolis. (Con^ Crtta Sacr. vol. i. p. 254.) Mr. Pashhy (I'm. vol. i. p. 263) haa flisd the site at ■ little mky hill to the W. of Kabm-Sroi. Then an mnaiiB of buildings, pohably of no eaiiier dale than tbi Venetian conquest, bnt the position agm> with the indications of the annenti. [E. B. J.} HERACLEIUS, river. [Bdus-I HERACLEOPCXLIS MAGKA('HfaicXfov(wAui liryiJi or ^ tri. Ptol. iv. 6. § 7; Steph. B. »r.;i* Strab, ivii, pp. 783, H09, SI! ; Herenlis Oppidnn,' Plin. V. 9. §9, II: Elk. ' HfwcXHirsXfTiiT). was the capital of the Nomoa Heracleotn in Uiddte Egypt. It was situated at the entrancacf die TOlfcy of the Fyoum (Nomos Aninrdtes), aa an islaiid fanned by the Kile, the Bohr Jtuuf, and a canaL After Memphis and Retiopolis it was prohahlT dw most important city sonth of the Thebald. When in the eighth dynasty of kinm Memphis appamlly lost its pre-oninence, tlie Ae^sfptian inDaarrhy jaiiai il over, in the first instance, to Heiacleopolia, bcfise it waa estabUshed at Thebea. The Uau of Uanttbo eihibil two dynasties of Heracleopolite kin^ the lith and ith,each containing ninttno names. But we know the appellation of the founder of them aksie, Achthoee, a ferocious ^rant, who went mad aiHl waa destroyed by a crocodile. Cenlnrieaailerwardtbc Ich- neumon waa worshipped at HeracleopoUs, frem whidi we may infer that the hoetiUty to the crocodile waa handed down. (Agathaidi. ap, Phetiam, p. 1339, R; Aellan, JZi'il. An. i. 47.) It ia pcobabla tl^ under these dynasties commenead at least tboae great works which trsdition connected with the name of Moeris, and that the canal, and tensna at the Arsinoite nome were their works. The He- racleote nnme partook, indeed, of the riabennt fer- tility of the Fyoum district. Under the Lower cmpira it formed part of the Roman piefeclure of Arradia. (Not. Sign, Imp.) lis ruins are inconsidersUe; the modern hamlet of jlnon'eA rorcn a portion of them. {Bitter, Errffanufc, vol. i. p. 78S.) rW.B.D.j HEBACLEOPOXIS PARVA (4 inoi or 'H^ nMov! rikii ^iKpi, Ptol. iv. 5. § 56; Joae|>h. BelL Jod. iv. 11. § 5: Steph. B. i. e.; Hemcle&a, It. Anton, p. 152; Heiaclium, Tab. PtuL), ia men- lioned only in the later limes of Egyptian Ustorr. It stood near Peluaium, in the Selhnate nocne. and beyond the westemmait branch of ibe Delta. Hem it a[^iear) to have been sometimu derMminued Sethmm (SApgr, Steph. B. s. v.), and regarded at the capital <£ .the nome. Jl waa aboat 83 milv